L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sleight of hand?

5 Like pie?

11 Tennis stroke

14 Name on the 1949 “Death of a Salesman” playbill

15 Bug on the road?

16 Common cause of conflict

17 “The Karate Kid,” e.g.

20 Guide for surfers

21 Gray shades

22 Be of service to

23 Org. with traveling bans?

25 One hanging around a lifeguard tower

29 Studio once run by Howard Hughes

32 1958 Pulitzer author James

33 D.C. figures

34 Some museum art

36 16th-century council site

38 Unspecified degree

39 Footnote abbr.

40 Nasal partitions

41 “... or so it may __”

43 Unadulterated

44 Slangy okay

45 Ice cream named after a Canadian river

48 Quite a lot

50 Address in a mess

51 Confront aggressively

53 Swears

57 2013 Hudson's Bay Company acquisition

60 “... exclaim, __ he drove out of sight”: Moore

61 Sign with an arrow

62 Start to giver or taker

63 Befitting

64 Hazmat team members, often

65 Tae __ do

DOWN

1 Atlas display

2 Et __

3 Dust bunny component

4 Achieved some progress

5 Rubber eraser, for one

6 Go slowly

7 Sargasso Sea spawner

8 Pac. cousin

9 Christian in cinema

10 Ambiguous answer

11 Little big cat

12 Mythical monster

13 First and last word of a common four-word saw

18 Dr. Skoda on “Law & Order”

19 Bathing spot

23 Popular online lists

24 Discussed, with “over” 25 Mark

26 Come to terms

27 Daddy Warbucks, e.g.

28 Former Mormon leader Ezra Taft __

30 Actress Knightley

31 Blender brand

35 “Nosebleed seats” section

37 Supposes to be

42 Loses temporarily

46 Bodega patron

47 European capital

49 Fortune 500 listings: Abbr.

51 Sailing

52 Complain

53 Really good, in '90s slang

54 Rodents do it

55 Money in la banque

56 Treated by the doctor

58 Four-wk. period, usually

59 Minimum for many games