L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Speechless performers 6 Love to bits

11 Hem and __

14 Overplay the scene

15 NBA coach Pat who trademarked “three-peat” 16 Hole-in-one

17 “That was easy!”

19 “__ Loves You”: Beatles 20 Beethoven's “Moonlight,” e.g.

21 Lawn mower housing 23 Come to a close

25 Actor Cage, in tabloids 26 Move to Canada to avoid military service

33 Sea of __: Black Sea arm 35 Midwestern tribe

36 Finalize, as a deal 37 Smart-alecky

38 Aired again on TV

40 Policy expert

41 Give a heads-up 43 NASCAR's Yarborough 44 Bothers a lot

45 Top-10 1978 hit for Kansas

48 Nest egg acronym

49 Prefix with appear 50 Longtime bubble gum wrap 55 Slowly diminished, as strength

60 Smooth machinery sound 61 Girl who went to Oz

63 Mine extraction

64 Cream of the crop 65 George's fiancée on “Seinfeld”

66 Fellow

67 Brand for nasal congestion

68 Australian gems

DOWN

1 Kitten cries

2 Texter's “As I see it ... ” 3 Pained sound

4 Soul singer James 5 Helped by an usher

6 LAX incoming flight 7 Food restriction

8 Toast topper

9 Change the district boundaries of

10 Peepers' closers

11 Corned beef concoction 12 Pain

13 Lawn invader

18 Maine city

22 Attach to a light bulb socket

24 Find out about 26 Showers affection (on) 27 Be exorbitant with the gratuity 28 Hebrew scroll

29 Restored to health 30 “I need to tell you something”

31 Dejected spell

32 Toll rds.

33 Air Force sch.

34 NATO alphabet ender

39 Fairly recent

42 Long rants

46 City SE of Roma

47 Mom's emphatic words after

“Because”

50 “For __ the Bell Tolls” 51 Surrounding glow 52 Marvel Comics superheroes

53 The Emerald Isle 54 Mechanical learning method

56 Scrolling PC key

57 “¿Qué __?”

58 Airline with only kosher meals

59 TV-watching rooms 62 One of two sts. with bordering panhandles