L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “__ Buddies”: '80s sitcom

6 Words on a check

11 Asian noodle soup 14 Lavender is similar to it 15 Hon

16 Toondom's Olive

17 Frank McCourt memoir 19 “XING” one

20 Postcard view of a city 21 Hold the deed to

22 Sandy slope

23 Salacious

24 J.M. Barrie play

26 Sharp turns

29 Many, many years

31 Deli subs

32 Game with Wild Draw Four cards

33 Of an arm bone 35 Response to bad service 38 Shakespeare comedy 42 Wombs

43 Mar. parade honoree 44 Genetic messenger 45 Starr knighted in 2018 48 Nine-digit ID 49 Antiprohibitionists 50 Gillian Flynn novel

53 “In that case ... ” 55 Discovery cries 56 Blossom buzzer

57 What discreet acts are done on, with “the”

61 Big Apple paper, for short 62 Portmanteau for a collection containing 17-, 24-, 38- and 50-Across? 64 Sticky stuff

65 Joe of “Casino”

66 “__ to suggestions” 67 California's Big __ 68 Second-string squad

69 Fork points

DOWN

1 Camp bed

2 Wild party

3 Wizards' castings 4 Skateboard leap

5 Have good intentions 6 Smartphone predecessor, for short 7 Greek storyteller

8 God, in Judaism 9 Jacque's “thirty”

10 Cries of worry 11 Temporary retail space 12 “Laughing” scavenger

13 From days past

14 Faux __: social goof 18 Arizona resort 22 Crave, with “over” 25 Dadaism pioneer

26 Z, in a pilot's alphabet 27 Playing an extra NBA period

28 Ahnold's political nickname

30 Captures

33 Employing

34 Decays

36 “Money __ everything” 37 School orgs.

39 Great Lakes natives

40 Silver lining

41 Fled

46 Thanksgiving gravy ingredient

47 Ultimatum words

49 Chinese dumpling 50 __ up on: unites against

51 “What a kidder!” 52 High-end German camera

54 Hindu guru

58 Rapper __ Fiasco 59 Mining hauls

60 Benign cyst

62 BOLO kin

63 Apple CEO Cook