Crossword

Across

1 Medieval drudges 6 Word before

shot or season 9 Imbecile 13 Gives a heads-up 15 Protection provided by military planes 17 Watch in astonishment 18 Scandal surrounding copy editors’ proofreading marks? 19 Scandal involving Tesla CEO Musk? 21 Completely fine 22 Some hosp tests 23 Facilitate 25 Storyteller Wilhelm or Jakob 28 Scandal affecting iPhone owners? 33 ___ Canyon Park (running spot in the Hollywood Hills) 35 Restaurant dip for bread 36 Do the breaststroke, say 37 NYC subway inits 38 Hamilton, eg 41 Sleeve filler 42 Title on Downton Abbey 44 TV-watching room 45 Rink game 47 Scandal in the aftermath of a tsunami? 50 Removes, as a layer 51 Small, brown songbird 52 “Toodles!” 54 Words of sympathy 57 Scandal that implicates a detective? 61 Scandal depicted in Avatar? 64 “Amen to that!” 65 Popular strength-training program 66 Be a pilot 67 Warmonger 68 Shirt for a workout 69 Come after

Down

1 Wise one 2 Its inaugural flight was in 1948 3 Pickup that gets picked up, perhaps 4 Ally who’s not completely an ally 5 Aggressive manager for a child star 6 Lose vibrancy 7 Bit of fiction 8 Address you can’t enter into a GPS 9 Angled golf

holes 10 Shape of the president’s office 11 Jared of Dallas Buyers Club 12 Long hike 14 Doe’s mate 16 Desist 20 Decidedly notlax grp at LAX 23 Filmdom’s The

Bible, eg 24 Deity to 1.5+ billion 25 “Good ___!” 26 Nonurban 27 Course that might be labeled “101” 29 North, south, east or west 30 Up from bed 31 Ready for bed 32 TV’s Oscars 34 Wink

accompanier 39 Actor Bean, whose first name looks like it rhymes with his last, but doesn’t 40 Frequent theme

for Adele 43 Not having much chance of failure 46 “Much to my ___ …” 48 Bottom-of-thebarrel stuff 49 Hellenic “H” 53 Former Sanyo competitor 54 Ruler division 55 ___ mia (Italian term of endearment) 56 Declare assuredly 57 Head of the French department? 58 Ones helping a public prosecutor, for short 59 Ballerina’s wear 60 Olympics sword 62 Back

on board 63 Suit

accessory