L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tug or ark

5 First assembly instruction

10 Mt. Rushmore's state 14 Gas brand on the TransCanada Highway

15 Word before basin or wave

16 Actress Taylor

17 “Now!” letters

18 Summer month in Argentina

19 “__ something I said?” 20 “Fast Times” school (Japan)

23 South Korean capital 24 Bootlegger's gin container

27 Drag racer's fuel, briefly 31 Do penance

32 Actress Thurman

35 2014 U.S. Women's Open champion (France) 38 Hip-hoppers Salt-N-__ 40 Two under par

41 Dexterous

42 North Atlantic stretch with no land borders (Mexico)

45 Fleur-de-__

46 Ohio natives 47 Skin care prefix

49 Counts up

52 Thinning atmospheric layer

56 Permission from the big boss ... and a hint to the ends of 20-, 35- and 42-Across (in the country indicated)

60 “Let's go!”

62 “Chicago” actress Zellweger

63 Crass

64 Arctic chunk

65 News article intros

66 Tiger Woods' ex

67 Frying liquids

68 Prefix with foam

69 Vaccine fluids

DOWN

1 Chicago NFL team

2 Actor Davis

3 Pollo __: Latin American grilled chicken dish 4 Cruise/Kilmer action film 5 Education acronym for four fields of study 6 Ex-Yankee Martinez 7 Genesis garden

8 Medicare option

9 Honolulu hello 10 Snubbed

11 Kitchen cloth

12 Boxer Laila 13 Do-it-yourselfer's buy 21 Single __: tournament format, briefly

22 Slanted type: Abbr.

25 Bring together

26 Sugar sources

28 Deadlocks

29 Some TVs

30 1977 George Burns film 32 Unexpected victory 33 Stiller's comedy partner 34 Springtime prank 36 Ultimatum word 37 Sideways glance

39 Facial wrinkles

43 F-foxtrot link

44 Latin love

48 Islands west of Portugal 50 British peers

51 Icy winter weather 53 Developing egg

54 Apex's opposite

55 Kagan of the Supreme Court

57 Mayberry's Sheriff Taylor 58 Look intently (at) 59 Durango dinero

60 Corp. money manager 61 Mid-11th century year