L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ancient wizard 5 Serbian-born NBA center __ Jokic

11 Fella

14 Speck 15 Bordeaux wine 16 Narrow inlet 17 Grasslands around Dakar?

19 Petition

20 High ranges 21 Holder of 61 NHL records 23 Chamber group 24 Comet relative 25 Retire

28 Jessica of “Dark Angel” 31 Winter vacation purchase

33 Part of a late 1900s demographic

35 “The Simpsons” storekeeper 36 Feature of a map of Baghdad?

38 MD treating canals 39 Oklahoma tribe 41 Accidental 43 Genesis twin 44 Middle of a three-part start

45 Subtly points out 48 Present time?

51 Uniform concern, maybe 53 Late author whose daughter wrote, “As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y” 56 Behave 57 Laid-back attitude in Hanoi? 59 Charlotte of “The Facts of Life”

60 Bivouac

61 Times past

62 Uma's “Pulp Fiction” role 63 Perceived to be 64 Caesar and others

DOWN

1 One side of a physics equivalence principle 2 Bit the dust

3 One with no hope 4 Honored retirees 5 Indiana-based sports org.

6 Troubles

7 Penn of “House” 8 Crater Lake locale 9 Hear (of) 10 Without a clue 11 Longing in São Paulo? 12 Take a shot at 13 Wine nuance word

18 Exuberant fan

22 IRS agent

24 Fish restaurant offerings 26 Unusual 27 Eavesdropping org. 29 Twisted

30 Focus for some collectors 31 Watering holes

32 Hot spot in

Al Ahmadi? 33 Masterpieces

34 Test involving gradually longer lines

35 Mimic

37 Round Table VIP 40 Creatures of habit?

42 Some bank acct. charges 44 Homer's home

46 Fins

47 Slate, for one 49 Original Flashback games console designer

50 “What a pity” 51 Wrong 52 Smoothie fruit

53 Fed. lending agency 54 Criticizes

55 Storied loch

58 Brown shade