LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Spec. for tires
4 Alphabetical lunch
7 Show stoppers
10 PC component
13 Close to a delivery
15 Searches, like a pig does for truffles
17 Attending
18 Starts up again
19 *Failed-delivery words
21 Perfect spot
22 Lease alternative
23 Bond, say
26 Home of Triple-A baseball’s Rainiers
32 Order to leave
35 Eyeroll inducer, perhaps, briefly
36 Not seen as much
37 *Arrives back at square one
41 Worship
42 Dubai’s fed.
43 Information
44 Diddles (around)
46 __ opposite
48 Granola bit
50 Folk tail?
53 *Bamboozled ... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be?
60 Incredulous response to an unexpected revelation
61 Oxford campus
63 Blow off some steam, maybe?
64 Many a door opening
65 Neruda wrote one to “things”
66 Many a golfer’s aim
67 Naval initials
68 46-yr.-old satire
DOWN
1 Wilbur of “Charlotte’s Web,” e.g.
2 It might keep you up
3 “Fine, you got me”
4 Many air rifles
5 Trilogy with hobbits: Abbr.
6 1982 sci-fi film set in a computer
7 Common keyboard symbol
8 “It __ add up”
9 Iced tea brand named for a Florida neighborhood
10 Lump
11 Best on drums
12 Cold War initials
14 Predators named for their prey
16 Overwhelming homework amount
20 Equal, as a sum
24 Beach lotion meas.
25 School URL ending
27 NFL’s Cardinals, on scoreboards
28 Bridge locales
29 Penguin predator
30 Tuna __
31 Geometry figure
32 Bit of trickery
33 JavaScript lines, say
34 “Famous” cookie guy
38 “Get the picture?”
39 Asian language
40 Road Runner frame
45 Beethoven’s “Waldstein,” e.g.
47 Where to see strikes but not strikeouts
49 Subsequently
51 Stirs up
52 One of three companies in the Seiko Group
53 This clue has on
54 Rain protection
55 “No shirt, no shoes, no service,” e.g.
56 Symbol of wisdom
57 Demolish
58 Amazon Fire TV Stick alternative
59 Brew choices
62 MLB’s Cardinals, on scoreboards