LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Go __: hit to right field batting righthanded, say, in baseball lingo 5 Trying to block 9 Performs like

Missy Elliott 13 Ruckus

14 Eve’s opposite 15 Sun: Pref. 16 *Second Commandment prohibition 18 Heroic sagas 19 “Awake and Sing!” dramatist

20 South Carolina state tree 22 *Old-fashioned parting words 25 See stars 26 Widen, as pupils 30 Fri. preceder 33 “Oh dear!” 36 Sherpa’s home 37 *“Cheese stands alone” kids’ song title guy

41 When some

dinners are served 42 Delhi wrap 43 “Narcos” org. 44 Certain Tibetan 46 Sounds of disgust 49 *Metaphorical

insect observer 55 “Yada, yada, yada” 58 Old copy

59 Little pigs number 60 Go to pieces, or what’s literally hidden in the answers to starred clues 63 Tally again 64 Skeleton prefix 65 Grandson of Eve 66 Geologic spans 67 __ buco

68 “The Banana Boat Song” opener

DOWN

1 No longer using 2 Designer bag brand

3 Not as bright 4 Raw bar mollusk 5 “__ imagining

things?”

6 Doze

7 Figurative

expression 8 Eloper’s

acquisition 9 Drove back 10 Came down 11 Early Briton 12 Just okay 15 Fashion variable 17 Sunrise dirección 21 Was ahead

23 Get wind of 24 MLB pitcher Dock profiled in the 2014 film “No No: A Dockumentary” 27 Parroted

28 One shared at a campfire

29 Jazz legend Fitzgerald 30 Maker of nonstick

cookware

31 Doth possess 32 Constellation bear 34 Political commentator Navarro

35 Walk with a swagger

38 Many printer jams 39 Praised highly 40 Elevation word 45 “Science Guy” Bill 47 Blood: Pref.

48 Ran through a

reader

50 Lover of Euridice, in a Monteverdi work 51 Tandoori breads 52 Maytag rival 53 “Bad, Bad” Brown of song

54 Bear voiced by Ned Beatty in “Toy Story 3” 55 Basic French verb 56 “Sons of Anarchy” actor Rossi 57 Fruit drink prefix 61 Mormons’ gp. 62 Bath bathroom