L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plunk down in front of, as a counter

6 1-BR listings

10 Ph.D. wannabe's obstacle 13 Heart chambers

14 Blue Ribbon beer

16 Short flight

17 Gym bar addition

19 In days of yore

20 Opposite of SSW

21 Seat of Allen County, Kansas

22 Pricey watch

24 Fairness principle for bandwidth providers 28 Dodos

30 Lumber

31 “__ Baby”: “Hair” song 32 Genie's offering

33 Hoppy beer, for short 36 Judicial fact finder

41 Mo. port on the Miss. 42 Mark Harmon TV series 43 “Now!” in the ER

44 Ruler until 1917 45 iPad and Kindle Fire

48 What a crossword clue typically starts with 52 “I didn't expect to see you here”

53 Out of the wind 54 Itinerary word

57 Habitat of many schools 58 Retail come-ons ... and what the starts of the longest Across answers can be?

62 “Live __”: Taco Bell slogan 63 Take off the TiVo

64 Lustrous furs

65 Poetic tribute

66 Mannerless one

67 Behold, of old

DOWN

1 Like lumber

2 Southern coast-to-coast hwy.

3 Occurring every third year 4 2008 bailout co.

5 South Pacific getaway 6 Orchard fruit

7 Micronesian setting for the 10th season of “Survivor”

8 Letters in an incomplete schedule

9 Retired flier, briefly 10 Ex-U.N. head

Boutros-__

11 Thesaurus compiler 12 Hobbyist's glue 15 Resistance unit equal to one trillion of the basic units

18 Musical quality 23 Yellowstone's __ Faithful 25 Cabinet dept. concerned with nukes

26 Candy from Mars

27 Rights icon Parks

28 Casual denials 29 “Su-r-r-r-re”

32 “Rushmore” director Anderson

33 Play peacemaker

34 Bog fuel

35 “Fine” studies

37 Current, as fashion

38 Frozen Four org.

39 Lass

40 5-Down or 7-Down 44 Deadlock

45 Penn's silent partner 46 Perfectly, with “to” 47 Backup squads

48 Pink drink, for short

49 On the horizon

50 Temporary stage

51 Catcher at a rodeo

55 Really gets to

56 Certain prof.'s designation 59 Poetic planet

60 __ Paulo, Brazil

61 Yahtzee cube