L.A. TIMES CROSWORD

ACROSS

1 With 18-Across, R.E.M. guitarist

6 Microscope glass

10 All snuggled in

14 Support piece

15 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit 16 Black-and-white cookie 17 Anglo-__

18 With 35-Across, 10-time “SNL” host who was Belushi's straight man in samurai routines 19 Restaurant handout

20 Gritty film genre

22 “We are gathered __ today ... ”

24 “Say that's true ... ” 27 Speedway event 29 Entertainment award quartets, for short

33 Swiss skiing spot

34 Pops, to tots

35 With 44-Across, hitter of 755 home runs

36 “Perhaps I'm wrong” 38 Takes effect

39 What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess

41 Climbs, as a cliff 42 Staggered

44 With 57-Across, “Breaking Bad” actor 45 Gives (out) sparingly 46 Passé TV accessory 47 Sediment layer 48 Courtroom cry

49 Big Apple team

50 Weak end? 52 Anti-cruelty org. 54 Green gemstone 57 With 68-Across, Garfunkel's partner 59 Zest

63 Big Aussie birds

64 Taj Mahal city 65 Worker, briefly

66 Ocean motion 67 Depend (on)

68 With 1-Across, one of the Twelve Apostles

DOWN

1 “Arthur” TV station 2 Notable time 3 Withholding __

4 Lodge opening? 5 Nevada casino city 6 Chocolate dog

7 Emory email ender 8 Wall recesses

9 “For heaven's __!” 10 Impatient after-school text to a parent

11 Salem is its cap. 12 Buddhist sect

13 “__ busy?” 21 Tehran residents

23 Warms up, as leftovers

24 Dr. Seuss' Sam-__ 25 Sideless train unit 26 Invasive computer program

28 Scratching-post attachment

30 With no breaks, as a tennis set

31 Cut into four-inch pieces, as a footlong sub

32 Dict. entry

34 Pass rusher's team

37 Meaty spaghetti sauce

38 React to dust

40 Script for TV

41 Down or blue

43 Rx writers

45 Rx quantity

49 New Zealand native 51 Prepare for a boxing day? 53 A++

54 Airbus product

55 French buddy

56 Failed firecracker 58 Clickable link

60 Boo-boo kisser

61 Gaza Strip gp.

62 “An egg's way of making another egg”:

Samuel Butler