L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Weight-training equipment

11 Cotton cleaner

15 Traditional November race

16 Social containers 17 Something a customer is happy to send back

18 One in Berlin

19 G8 member

20 What an enemy exploits 22 Needle holder

27 Sharon of Israel

28 Rewards for a big promotion?

30 Laker teammate of Magic 33 “Aha!”

37 Flip

38 Zaragoza's river

39 Fabulous fellow?

41 Map's blue areas

42 Motel arrival?

44 Like some diamonds

46 Role for Heston or

Huston

48 Weasel relative

49 “Fuller House” actor 51 Chords are part of them 55 Cannes Film Festival award

58 Leave slack-jawed 59 Many a Syrian 60 Booted, in old football

65 Give credit to 66 “Count me in!” 67 Visionary

68 1999 Pacino/Crowe film about a whistleblower

DOWN

1 Runway gait

2 Nacho cheese

3 Name of eight popes 4 Handle letters 5 Vietnamese holiday

6 Deli selection

7 DOJ division

8 Bird that's hard to eat? 9 Peninsula partly defined by the

Yalu River

10 Gospel writer

11 Subtitle of #48 in AFI's “100 Years...100 Songs” 12 Cosmopolitan essential 13 __ way, shape or form 14 Covert call

21 Souls, e.g.

23 Place where it all comes back to you?

24 __ king 25 British vocalist __ Ora 26 Law recipient

29 “Thong Song” singer 31 Genesis brother

32 Classic PC adventure game

33 President

Aleksandar Vucic, for one

34 It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth 35 Interpret

36 Talks up

40 Crown

43 Very significant

45 Remote button

47 Social news website 50 Jewish authority

52 Blunt, as truth

53 Quaint contraction 54 Jewish meal

55 Campaign donation orgs. 56 Grammy winner

India.__

57 “Quo Vadis” setting

61 Letter with a silent letter

62 “__-Tiki”

63 Cousin of hers

64 City with two MLB teams