LA.TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Queens stadium namesake

5 Elevated vantage point for Wile E. Coyote

9 Sister of Sasha

14 Many a gamer

15 Oodles

16 Freezes

18 Red River city

21 Fronded plant

22 Exit in a hurry

23 Oodles, with “a”

24 They, in Calais

25 Drawn from diverse sources

29 Hound for payment

30 Words of urgency

33 Partners

34 TV component?

35 He hit his 600th homer exactly three years after his 500th

36 Medical suffix

40 Caesar's next-to-last

words

44 “Take a hike!”

47 Intro suggesting

uncertainty

51 Way off

52 Be decided by

53 Sot's woe

54 Caesar's last day, e.g.

56 __ act 57 59

Summers in Bordeaux Pre-road trip detail

... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them

64 Make certain

65 Island in Micronesia

66 Big name in digital

imaging

67 Jovial

68 Modern address

letters

69 “Got it”

DOWN

1 DOJ bureau 2 Shipwreck site

3 “Want to know the culprit? I'll tell you!” 4 Many an MIT alum 5 Ralph Ellison's “Invisible __”

6 “Livin' Thing” rock gp. 7 Cold dessert

8 Stick on

9 Central dividing point 10 Here, in Juárez 11 Albanian money 12 Tristan's love 13 Filmmaker with a distinctive style

17 One before a king? 19 “It's __ the other”

20 Try to strike

24 Old Peruvian

26 Old TV component

27 “__ Miz”

28 Wile E. Coyote collectible

31 Surfing tool

32 Bridal shop array

37 Source of some tadpoles

38 “Okay to come out yet?”

39 Norms: Abbr.

41 Asian holiday

42 Competition

43 Strip of gear,

as a ship

44 Econ. yardstick

45 Environmentalist's

prefix

46 Principle

47 Cruelty named for a

marquis

48 Ultimatum phrase

49 “Just stop, okay?!”

50 Production

51 World Cup soccer org.

55 Omit a part of, perhaps

58 Asian takeout option

60 Mdse. category

61 Angkor __: Cambodian

temple

62 Trickster

63 Encl. with a résumé