LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Guthrie’s “Today” co-host

5 Apple tablet 9 Easily bruised

Cajun veggie 13 Collectively 15 Possessive shout 16 Currency with

Khomeini’s picture 17 “Same here!” 18 Greek salad

ingredient

19 Out of sight

20 It takes getting

used to

23 Note dispenser 25 Large tea

dispenser 26 Geese cries 27 Native American

leaders

31 Put a cap on 32 One of its first customers was a collector of broken laser pointers

33 IRS forms expert 36 Just slightly 37 Brown ermine 39 Born and __ 40 Theater backdrop 41 High time? 42 “Shrek” princess 43 Exuberant

compliment 46 Some blue jeans 48 Sea-__ Airport 49 Observe 50 Morning news deliverers ... or based on a hidden word in each, what 20-, 27- and 43-Across are? 54 Late notice? 55 “The __ Report”:

1976 bestseller 56 Bangkok natives 59 Ticket stub abbr. 60 Meadow mamas 61 Fires off 62 Programmer’s

alternative to “if” 63 Yom Kippur ritual 64 Heavy homework

amount

DOWN

1 Most common surname in Korea 2 Half of snake eyes 3 Ryokan floor cover

4 Political alliance 5 “Everything’s OK” 6 Berth place 7 Initial poker

payment

8 Tie on a track 9 Instruments with stops 10 Key-cutting site 11 Raging YouTube posts 12 Sheltered from the wind 14 Plumlike Asian fruit

21 GoDaddy purchase

22 Boris Johnson, e.g. 23 Book with insets 24 Clichéd

28 Auction action 29 Africa’s Sierra __ 30 Trade name letters

33 Flaky bakery product

34 Tubular pasta 35 “Opposites attract,” e.g. 37 Kitchen bigwig-inwaiting

38 A.L.’s Blue Jays 39 Show __

41 Black, in Biarritz 42 Rhinestone surfaces

43 __ Nicole Brown of “Community” 44 Taking a breather 45 Monet’s May 46 Record company

imprint

47 Heroic tales

50 Sit for a portrait 51 Bygone audio brand

52 66 and others: Abbr. 53 Flightless bird of the pampas 57 Altar affirmation 58 Phishing target,

briefly