L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Business issue since 1979

4 Compares

10 Cyberspace gatekeepers, for short

14 Org. supporting museums

15 Skink or skunk

16 German refusal

17 Very loudly, in music

19 Logan of “60 Minutes”

20 Savvy about

21 Archipelago unit

22 Culture medium

23 __ Jordan: sports brand

24 Simple top

25 Hill group

27 Iconic 1962 role for Gregory

29 Frittered (away)

30 Prefix with -lithic

31 New Mexico tribe

32 Sanctify

33 Boggy area

34 Forest floor litter

39 13-digit ID since 2007

41 Caravan stops

42 “Salvator Mundi” artist

46 Between-course refreshers

48 Whiteboard accessory

49 Skedaddled

50 Wager

51 Discover alternative

52 Functional

54 Spillane's “__ Jury”

56 Like many breakfast bars

57 Like some smiles in an orthodontist's office ... and like three puzzle rows

59 Quelques-__: a few, in French

60 Novelist Graham

61 “__ you quite finished?”

62 Hawaiian staple

63 Smoothing tool

64 Score half

DOWN

1 Data, e.g.

2 Like a hospital ward with a tiny population?

3 Jaguar documentation

4 China's Chou En-__

5 Where it originally was

6 Some canoodling

7 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor Hirsch

8 Put a handle on

9 Adds, as an appointment to a busy schedule

10 Away from shore

11 Action star Steven

12 Hook, for one

13 Caught

18 Parliament figures

26 Prose pro

27 Msg. to the squad

28 Scientific calculator function

29 Many a dad joke

31 __ master

33 “The X-Files” org.

35 Bugs, to a toon hunter

36 “It's quite clear now”

37 Arrive

38 Air fryer sound

40 Country legend Earl

42 Pious

43 “7 Rings” singer Grande

44 Even more expansive

45 Laying-down-the-law words

46 Like most peanuts

47 Low-scoring tie

49 Mature on the vine

53 “Sharknado” actress Reid

55 Fall setting

58 “Save me, and hover __ me with your wings”: Hamlet