L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Keebler cracker

6 Shoots the breeze

11 E, in Morse code

14 Parts of plots

15 Kama __

16 Bruin great Bobby

17 *Sports bookie's figure

19 Action film gun

20 Caspian Sea feeder

21 Where work may pile up

23 Criticized unfairly, in slang

27 Stand in a studio

29 Get away from 30 Inoffensive

33 “Tell It Like It Is” crooner __ Neville

34 Suffix with billion

35 Fashionable way to arrive?

36 “What a pity”

37 *R&D setting

40 Meadow

41 Four-stringed instruments, typically

43 Weighty volume

44 Buck the system

46 Passé street corner convenience

48 As __: generally

49 Location

50 Online player, briefly

52 Taj __

54 Foundry waste

55 Good Grips gadget brand

56 End of a close race ... and what the last part of the answers to starred clues can literally be

63 “Don't Bring Me Down” rock gp.

64 Singer Cyrus

65 Finnish tech giant

66 Hanoi holiday

67 Green vehicles, for short

68 Belgian treaty city

DOWN

1 Cook quickly

2 Prefix with logical

3 __ Lanka

4 Top songs set

5 Stellar scholar

6 D.C. network

7 Sling

8 Gobbled up

9 Carol syllable

10 Extreme cruelty

11 *Dylan's “Blonde on Blonde,” e.g.

12 Rice-shaped pasta

13 Froot Loops shelfmate

18 B'way sellout sign

22 Jodie Foster title role

23 Intensify

24 “Seward's Folly” purchase

25 *Marksmanship match

26 Tokyo, long ago

27 “Copperhead Road” singer Steve

28 Nevada's __ 51

30 Blackjack request

31 Remington played by Brosnan

32 Driveway coating

34 In unison

38 English school since 1440

39 Big talk

42 Animal welfare gp.

45 Pitching stat

47 “I need a hand”

50 Tricks

51 Half-__: coffee compromise

52 Bubbly brand

53 Wheel connector

54 Ending for young and old alike?

57 Hyphenated

Minute Maid brand

58 Schnozz extension?

59 Japanese drama

60 '50s prez

61 Sermon subject

62 Boater or bowler