LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Former Yankee

slugger, familiarly 5 Barrel of laughs

9 “Joy of Cooking”

writer Rombauer 13 Take away

15 Skeleton prefix 16 Is sorry about

17 *Chilled

caffeinated drink 19 __-lock brakes

20 Pt. of HDTV

21 __ facto

22 “Moby-Dick” ship 24 Slim woodwind 26 Not well

27 “Star Wars” pilot

Dameron

28 *Cold War barrier 32 Blueprints

33 Orderly

34 Comply with

38 Frying liquids

39 Holy book

40 Small valley

41 Ward on “FBI”

42 Brazilian berry

43 Medicinal units 44 *Close-knit,

influential group 47 Legal org.

50 Lummox

51 Peters out

52 Tearjerker featuring Anna Chlumsky in her feature-film debut 54 Ceramics oven

56 “__ the season …” 59 Radar screen spot 60 *English name of a West African republic

63 Refrain syllables 64 Majorino of

“Veronica Mars” 65 Cosmetician

Lauder

66 Meadow moms 67 Affirmative votes 68 Pass (through)

slowly

DOWN

1 In the thick of

2 Risotto grain

3 Part of the Three

Musketeers’ credo 4 Lemon

5 NFL officials

6 The 411

7 “__ of Girls’ Things”: poem by Sharon Olds

8 Metal tab that

protects a shoe

9 Baghdad’s country 10 Accumulate, as

charges

11 “Same here!”

12 “All kidding __ … ” 14 Descendants

18 Oil cartel acronym 23 “Riverdale” actor

Goree

25 Tiny potted tree 26 Slanted, as a

typeface

28 1970s tennis star

Nastase 29 Worldwide

humanitarian gp. 30 Concretereinforcing rod

31 “Sorry, can’t help

ya”

32 Spots to buy

stamps: Abbr.

35 Mid-American Conference university in Indiana

36 Actress Fanning 37 “Of course!”

39 Triteness

43 Royal son

45 Fin. neighbor

46 In a lazy way

47 Saunter

48 Internal regulation

for a club

49 Nimble

53 Hoppy brews,

briefly

54 Beer company

based in Hawaii 55 Some nest eggs,

for short

57 Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues

58 Dance move

61 “C’est la __!”

62 CIA predecessor