L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Staples buys

4 Pooh-pooh, with “at” 9 Author Stieg Larsson, for one

14 Deduction cry

15 “While I've got your attention ... ”

16 Big name in seating

17 Zip on a field

18 Passion for quilt filling? 20 Fall cause

22 Not heard before

23 1945 summit site 24 Contest among bank customers?

27 __ Road Ensemble, group initiated by Yo-Yo Ma 29 Portaged craft

30 Needing no Rx

32 Stick in a hall

33 “The buck stops here” president

36 Baloney

38 Segment of a clogging contest?

41 Jokhang Temple city 42 Words spoken with one's hand raised

43 Corp. bailed out in 2008 44 Auction set

46 Made hands of 49 Swatting target

51 Airline passenger's arrival malady?

55 Grass unit

57 Yield from una mina 58 Laser-cut, perhaps 59 Female observer? 62 __ jump

63 Unexpressed

64 Pulitzer poet Conrad __ 65 Work hard (for) 66 Aboveboard

67 Handle

68 Ajar, in verse DOWN

1 Suit part

2 Former French president

3 DNA sample source 4 Sound with tears 5 Pitcher's surprise 6 Kitchen brand

7 Mufti issuance

8 “Here's the scoop” letters

9 Tokyo-based game company

10 They're thin at budget motels

11 Email adornment 12 Weakened, as currency 13 Legal add-on

19 Siberian freeze-out? 21 Mottled equines 25 Routine

26 Crichton novel set in Africa

28 Longboat in Florida, e.g. 31 Singled out

34 Mazda two-seater 35 Hexapod worker

37 Cause of a blinking “12:00”

38 Tibia

39 Emulate a little brother, maybe

40 Ham's creation

41 Tarry

45 Author Robert __ Butler 47 Unhands

48 Affix to a corkboard 50 Castmate of Doohan and Nimoy

52 “Cross my heart!”

53 Male on a pond

54 View from Schönburg Castle

56 Gossip

59 Diminutive, diminutively

60 Main delivery 61 Cold-sounding product prefix