LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Electrically

flexible 5 Mammals who holdhandswhile sleeping

11 Cy Young Award

stat

14 “So gross” 15 Persona non

grata

16 Hula hoop? 17 “Shake It Up” star who won a 2015 Teen Choice Award for her role in “The DUFF”

19 __ Bernardino 20 Helicopter part 21 Mineral suffix 22 Crackerjack

24 All ears 26 Sport-__ 27 “Monster” Oscar

winner

34 Yellow Teletubby 35 Rower’s need 36 Like old records 37 Returns home? 38 Blush or flush 41 ATM maker 42 Thick fog 44 Narc’s org. 45 Element used in atomic clocks 47 Another name for the Romanov Empire

50 Lay unused

51 A/C units 52 “’Sup, homie” 55 “Ballers” network 57 Gets rid of 61 Binary digit 62 Masked hero who partners with Kato

65 Feel badly about 66 Income recipient 67 Avis adjective 68 Medium

strength? 69 Arm-twisting 70 “Son of

Frankenstein” role

DOWN

1 This ans. is one 2 Ancient queen, familiarly 3 Bench press muscle

4 __ hydrate: sedative

5 Decide

6 South Pacific island

7 Easy pace 8 WordonanIrish euro

9 Hightailed it 10 Tight-fitting dress 11 “Isthere something __?” 12 Cut the crop

13 “If it __ broke ... ” 18 Where Noah landed 23 Consider 25 Strong praise 26 Netherlands city near Amsterdam 27 Billiards bounce 28 Invites to the skybox 29 Divided into districts

30 Corn unit 31 Masterless samurai 32 Perfectly timed 33 It’s to be expected 34 Actress Virna 39 Stephen who plays Inspector Bucket on “Dickensian” 40 “Talk Dirty”

singer Jason 43 100 centavos 46 “A thousand

pardons” 48 Uneven 49 Sizzler choices 52 Knight times 53 Obligation 54 Like a basso

profundo voice 55 Berlin mister 56 N.B. part 58 Glitch 59 Architect

Saarinen

60 Have the lead 63 “This Is India” novelist Santha Rama __ 64 Billing nos.