L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hindu royals

6 Tool with jaws

10 Mixer with Scotch 14 Lightweight vacuum first sold to hotels

15 Pianist Gilels

16 Eve's second son 17 Peppy-sounding cracker brand

18 El __: ocean current 19 Completely occupy, as an arena

20 Well-to-do

23 Above, to poets

24 Drinks with crumpets 25 Instruction to a bank to make periodic payments 31 Loving squeezes

32 Beer whose logo suggests a prize winner, initially

33 Chopping down

36 Ocean east of N.C. 37 Central Illinois city

40 Funny Tina

41 Rep's sales target

43 + or - particle

44 Criticize sternly

45 Pink slip

49 Picnicker's worry

50 Spanish “that” 51 Ship's required nighttime illuminators

57 __ B'rith

58 “Paula's Home Cooking” host

59 Extremist sects

62 Puts frosting on

63 Tall and skinny

64 Audibly

65 Pageant body band

66 Greek Cupid

67 Body areas that may be irritated by shirt tags

DOWN

1 “Frasier” role

2 “All bets __ off”

3 Zooey's “New Girl” role 4 They “speak louder than words”

5 Did figure eights, say 6 Start of Caesar's boast 7 “Sign me up!”

8 Woo with a tune

9 One who gets hitched in a hurry

10 Sensitive high school health lesson

11 Last bio

12 Shoulder muscle, briefly

13 Partner in war 21 Poppycock 22 Storm-tracking device 25 Former NBA big man, familiarly

26 Ballet skirt

27 Beaming

28 “SNL” network

29 Not enough salt to taste, perhaps

30 Hunter's weapon

34 Within shouting distance

35 Places with elliptical trainers

37 __ Lama

38 Get dolled (up)

39 Remove a fastener from 42 Become discolored, as silverware

44 Diner flipper

46 Amazon e-reader

47 Out of neutral

48 Trash holder

51 Sluggers' stats

52 Donald Duck, to his nephews

53 Glasgow denials

54 Jay with a TV “Garage” 55 Tattoo artist's supplies 56 Sty fare

60 Election Day day: Abbr. 61 Militant '60s campus org.