L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Chatting online, for short 6 Little troublemakers 10 Invitation letters

14 Indiana hoopster

15 Like frat brothers

16 Keep __: persist

17 Fast train in the

Northeast

18 Ideal occupations 20 Scrambled words newspaper game 22 Crosswalk user, briefly 23 Prodigal __

24 Garden tools

25 Hosp. drips

27 Vaudeville bit

28 Car music source 32 Baghdad native

35 Mystical glow

37 Eyeglasses glass 38 Fashionably ripped denim 41 So totally gross

42 Fencing sword

43 “Therefore ... ”

44 Matthew and Mark wrote two of them

46 Pained cries

47 Gave lunch to

48 Surrealist Salvador

50 Ike's monogram

53 Medical ins. plan 55 Copier malfunction 59 Off-color humor

61 Get ready to hit the road 62 Chicago paper, familiarly 63 Sign of the future

64 “__ you ready yet?” 65 November honorees

66 Get fresh with 67 Moth-eaten

DOWN

1 Apple tablets

2 Chinese gambling mecca 3 Strand at the ski lodge, maybe

4 Women's basketball analyst Fortner

5 It may be a result of stress, some say

6 “My luck HAS to change!” 7 Quaint schoolteachers 8 Roman commoner

9 __ the deal

10 Indian friend of TV's Sheldon

11 Comes to a complete halt 12 Vague feeling

13 Condition once called “shell shock,” for short 19 Israel's Golda

21 Trot

26 “Donna” singer Ritchie 27 One usually dressed for success

28 Liberate

29 Alfred E. Neuman magazine

30 Road trip stopovers 31 __ buco: veal dish 32 Beatnik's “Gotcha!” 33 Puerto __

34 Ignores warnings to behave, say

35 Once-sacred snakes 36 Employ

39 Long, thin fish

40 Talking endlessly to 45 Whirlpool

46 Fútbol fan's cry 48 Noblemen below princes 49 Chorus from the pews 50 Track mix for a party, and what the five longest Across answers comprise 51 Intimidate

52 Running on __

53 RCA product

54 Swampy area

56 Spanish eyes

57 Deep sleep

58 “Sharknado” actress Reid 60 Atlanta-based cable channel