LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prepared, as a

bed

5 Scuttlebutt

10 Col. Sanders’s

chain

13 Soft palate feature that translates to “little grape” 15 Battery terminal 16 Right-angle

shape

17 Where Alcatraz

sits

20 Towel embroidery word

21 Like many meds 22 “A __ Day’s Night”: Beatles song

23 Disc sport popular on college campuses 28 Shakespearean

fairy queen

29 Jay of late-night

TV

30 Lady’s man

33 “A Room of One’s

Own” author 35 Admirer 38 Give-it-a-testrun advice 42 Kiki, Sandra or

Ruby 43 Brainiacs,

maybe

44 Mass __: an I-90

nickname

45 Fair

46 “Dude!” 48 Storied pot-ofgold spot

56 Achy

57 What a slob

makes 58 Nitrogen-based

dye 59 Hiding-youreyes parent-baby game 64 Veer off course 65 Vegan and Paleo

regimens 66 Roadside hot dog

seller

67 NBC staple for

45 years

68 Daisy variety 69 Three in a deck

DOWN

1 __ pork: Chinese

menu item

2 To no __: in vain 3 Kirsten of SpiderMan films 4 Toymaker for

Santa

5 Charged

6 Mom’s brother 7 “Surely you don’t

mean me?!”

8 Has too much,

briefly

9 __ center 10 Skewered dish 11 Bell-bottom

bottom

12 Only nonrhyming PacMan ghost 14 Roastery draw 18 Many a Mideast

native

19 Very, very 24 Website for film

buffs

25 Polar bear

hangouts

26 Bank (on) 27 Inside scoop 30 Inc., in England 31 Underground find 32 Pastrami holder 33 Value

34 Chicago airport

code

35 “The X-Files”

org.

36 Arctic seabird 37 TV’s “Science

Guy” 39 Plenty, in texts 40 Gala

41 “Once __ ... ” 45 Kangaroo kid 46 Diamond bag 47 Daredevil

dangers

48 TV sports

awards

49 Hall of Fame

pitcher Ryan 50 Southern twang 51 E, on a gauge 52 Peanut Butter

Cup creator 53 Storybook

elephant

54 Layer with a hole 55 “Toy Story”

cowboy

60 “Yes, indeed!” 61 Give a thumbsdown

62 “__ whiz!”

63 Law firm fig.