LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unresponsive state

5 Loosen up, to a

pitcher

10 Light bulb unit 14 Welcoming 15 African howler 16 “Sin City” actress

Jessica

17 *New Jersey city

on Raritan Bay 19 Thick slice 20 Semicircle, say 21 Green Gables girl 22 Kick back

23 Comic Smirnoff 25 *Leader of the

pack

28 Wiener schnitzel

meat

30 Red Sea country 31 Trembling trees 34 Terrier’s sound 35 Disney frame

38 *It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures

42 Boy king

43 Mr. Rogers 44 Cleared from the

board

45 Family car

48 Elvis’ middle name 49 *Light-bulb-overthe-head instance 52 Sherpa’s land 56 Large pears 57 Actress Skye 59 The“E”inBCE 60 Boo-boo

61 Spam relatives ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues 64 Tease mercilessly 65 Curved moldings 66 Frozen drink brand 67 Souvenir shop apparel

68 Lyrics

69 Rx items

DOWN

1 Insured’s contribution 2 Wagner work 3 Pharmaceutical giant

4 Industrious crawler 5 Word in a comparison

6 Pew book

7 Buck the system 8 Beatle bride

9 “No __!”: “Uh-uh!” 10 Message on a

dusty car

11 NATO and others 12 Pre-Little League

game 13 Card-playing surface

18 Lack, briefly 22 Cell pic taker

24 Walkie-talkie word 26 Combustible pile 27 Playboy founder Hugh

29 Hindu retreat 31 Away from the

bow

32 Trifling amount 33 Saves for later 34 __ Ray, one of folk rock’s Indigo Girls 36 Chicago-toLansing dir.

37 Inc., in England 39 Top of the line 40 Went on and on 41 Pride of lions? 46 Show hosts

47 One side of a twocolumn list of rules

48 Made up (for) 49 Scrub the launch 50 Mandel of “America’s Got Talent”

51 San Fran gridder 53 Tranquility 54 Packing heat 55 Does high-tech

eye surgery on 58 Legendary loch 61 Milk source 62 Previously 63 Pronoun that’s a homonym of a religious song