Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 1960s presidential monogram 4 Gremlins and
Pacers
8 Lands’ End rival 14 World Cup cry 15 Naked 16 Cross-referencing
phrase
17 Potato __: 61Across dish 19 Items in a 59Across lit for 61Across
20 Novelist Ferber 21 Key with four
sharps
23 Wife of Jacob 24 Fervor 25 Rebecca of
“Risky Business” 27 Relaxed condition 29 “¿__ pasa?” 32 One lacking
manners 34 Cowboy boot
attachments 36 Pack in cartons 37 Traditional 61Across surprise, aptly boxed, and spelled with the only four letters of the alphabet that don’t appear elsewhere in this grid
38 Range dividing
Europe and Asia 39 “You gotta be
kidding”
40 Rx items 41 Coffee server 42 Long-finned
tunas
49 Nash priest, not
beast
50 Roughly
54 Make __ dash
for
57 Expired 58 Contented
sounds 59 61-Across
centerpiece 61 Two-millennia-old tradition that begins at sunset tonight
63 Football rushing
plays
64 Greek love god 65 December 24,
e.g.
66 Figured (out) 67 Suffix with
ransom
68 Org. with narcs
DOWN
1 Pop icon Jennifer 2 Razor insert 3 Barbara Bush’s
twin sister
4 Legal org. 5 Manage
somehow
6 Sweet liqueurs 7 Bagel seed 8 Finds out
9 Actor Cariou
10 In a shoddy way 11 She, in Paree 12 On an ocean liner 13 Quick snack 16 Music for a film 18 Hardhearted 22 Actor Voight 26 Take for granted 28 Annie, notably 29 Campus hangout 30 Addresses beginning with “http://”
31 Letter before tee 32 Dutch South
African 33 Plow-pulling team 35 Washing
machine cycle 36 Mormon sch. 43 University
founder Stanford 44 Malaise, with
“the”
45 Swiss peak 46 Kidney-shaped
nut
47 1998 Masters
champ Mark 48 Philadelphia
suburb 49 Smells 51 Gathered leaves 52 Trim whiskers 53 Actor Milo 54 Home of Iowa
State
55 Diner handout 56 Added
stipulations 60 Regret
62 “__ as directed”