L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 __-as-you-are party 5 Wedge or pump

9 Apple's Touch and Nano 14 Help with a robbery, say 15 Phone in a purse

16 “I kid you not”

17 Wind current that affects weather patterns

19 Barton of the Red Cross 20 Purpose

21 First rainbow color

22 First Peace Corps director Sargent __ 24 Lipton rival

26 Apple mobile platform 27 Pet rodent's exercise gadget

34 Concerning

37 Held the deed to

38 Mai __: cocktail

39 Guns, as an engine

40 Nest of chicks

41 Turkey meat preference

42 Top worn with jeans 43 Birth-related

44 Numbered supermarket section

45 Good survival skills

48 Brit's bathroom

49 Filmdom awards 53 Longtime TV fitness guru Jack

57 Job ad letters

58 “The Matrix” hero 59 Sumatran ape

60 Sunbeam brand ... and a literal hint to the circled letters

63 Miata automaker

64 Jai __

65 Latin being

66 Sanctify

67 Clue or Risk

68 Peepers

DOWN

1 Bayou cuisine

2 More than plump

3 Doles (out)

4 UFO pilots, presumably 5 Riot, in the funny way 6 Take to heart

7 Rio greeting

8 Shade trees

9 Narrow, exclusive group 10 Refined manner 11 Norwegian royal name 12 Desperate, as straits 13 Char on a grill 18 Halloween trick alternative

23 Put on the payroll 25 In this way 28 Alphabetizes, say 29 Time for semiannual clock changes: Abbr. 30 __ Gay: WWII bomber 31 Vowels after zetas 32 British nobleman 33 Facebook thumbs-up 34 Part of MFA

35 Borscht basic

36 Partner of

“done with”

40 Relay stick

41 Brake rotor

43 Nightlife sign's light source

44 On the briny

46 African antelopes 47 Dorm pal

50 Unable to sit still 51 Baseball Hall of Famer Pee Wee

52 Tender spots

53 Bausch's partner 54 Asia's vastly diminished

__ Sea

55 Lie idly (around) 56 Periodical with a URL 57 Reason to study 61 Dockworkers' org. 62 Match, as a bet