LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Easily vandalized site

5 “Such a bummer”

10 Spanish greeting

14 City on the Chisholm Trail 15 Grayish brown

16 Norwegian royal name 17 “Catch you on the flip side!” 19 Brick that’s painful to step on 20 Defrost

21 Go-between

23 Silky fabric

25 Wears the crown

27 Qty.

28 Chicago’s Northalsted and

Manhattan’s Chelsea, for two 34 Feudal worker

36 “__ Haw”

37 Host

38 Whodunit heroes

40 Examine in detail 42 Inventive types?

43 Fellows

44 Mario __

45 Leaves Thanksgiving dinner

before pumpkin pie, maybe 49 Once called

50 Hilarious folks

51 Bozo, in Canada 53 Compendiums

57 Salmorejo, for one

58 Social sci. major

59 Legal turn at some intersections, and a turn in each set of circles in this puzzle 64 Give a little

65 Start of a take

66 “O mio babbino __”: Puccini aria 67 Golfer’s pocketful

68 __ Nast

69 “Their __ Were Watching God”

DOWN

1 Like fresh nail polish 2 Cookbook writer Garten 3 Persian snack?

4 State with a panhandle 5 Stash away

6 Crew need

7 Connecticut WNBA team 8 Historic Harlem theater 9 Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day

10 Hindu festival of colors 11 Estadio cries

12 Italian body of water 13 HarperCollins romance

imprint

18 Viper tooth

22 Clambake leftovers

23 Fight, colloquially

24 Bedelia of kid-lit

25 Some loaves

26 Purple yam

29 Spa sigh

30 Trans-Siberian Railway city 31 Juice brand with a wave in

its logo

32 Official order

33 Volleyball position

35 Faux __

39 Old autocrats

40 Roman god

41 Travel stop

43 “The A-Team” actor

46 __ acid

47 Peanut butter-flavored Girl

Scout cookie

48 “Beat it!”

52 Cup fraction

53 Financial liability

54 Drink similar to a Slurpee 55 Vanished

56 Codas

57 Eyelid issue

60 “People Puzzler” channel 61 “You __ one job!”

62 Sonnet preposition 63 Novelist John __ Passos