LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stock holder?

6 South Dakota region

14 __ All: car care brand 15 Collection of Buddhist sculpture, Chinese jades, etc. 16 Specialized work at a confectionary?

18 Application

19 Investigative journalist __ B.

Wells

20 Tiff

22 Connecticut home of ESPN

studios

26 Nail polish brand with an Always Bare for You collection 27 Prefix with gender

28 Body care brand

32 Tone down

33 Caribbean gastropod 36 Instructor for a monarch? 38 Nickname for Luciano

Pavarotti?

40 Estate that went all-out with

turquoise paint?

42 Grind together

45 Baking measures

46 Fantasy brutes

48 Loose __

49 Subdivision unit

50 Plead

53 Deep-dish chain, familiarly 55 “And what have we here?” 58 Investment option, briefly 59 Vicar who puts the pedal to

the metal?

65 Telemarketer’s accessory 66 Hard section of a textbook,

perhaps

67 Compact cars?

68 Made a big deal of

DOWN

1 Cul-de-__

2 Letters for Kate Middleton 3 Punk subgenre

4 Place

5 Orchardist’s concern

6 “Hey, ewe!”

7 Italian wine region

8 Ran out of juice

9 “Deck the Halls” chorus fragment

10 Political commentator

Navarro

11 Catches

12 Worrisome educational

statistic

13 Attach, in a way

17 Boxer Spinks

21 Level

22 Email on the q.t.

23 2016 Olympics city 24 Disappoints

25 Preference

29 Energy

30 Item on a menu

31 Medical chart datum 32 Subatomic particle 34 Cartoonist Addams, familiarly

35 Adjustable border

37 “Star Trek” spinoff before

“DS9”

39 Steamed bun

40 Org. concerned with privacy

laws

41 __ hut

43 “My bounty is as boundless as

the __”: Juliet

44 Panama, for one

47 Cut a bit

51 Wreck

52 Hoarse

54 Spanish : noche :: Italian : __ 55 God who gave up an eye to

gain wisdom

56 Shakes a leg, quaintly 57 Second word of many limericks

60 Prefix with gram or graph 61 Comprehend

62 Bit of advice

63 Early afternoon hour

64 Rare colour?