LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lose it

6 Winner of 22

Grand Slam singles titles, second-most in the Open Era 10 Not talk, with

“up”

14 Gulf State native 15 Jedi who lived

to be 900 16 Dance with a

chair

17 Ice shelf

breakaways 18 Relaxing

melodies 20 Retiree’s

investment goal 22 __4: Toyota SUV 23 Happy eating

word

24 ABC early show,

briefly 27 Wandered 31 Eclipse shadows 33 Kung __ shrimp 34 Performers in

cages

37 River in the

Congo

40 Female in a field 41 Loyal subject 42 Cornell’s “Far

Above Cayuga’s Waters” and

others 45 Hobbyist’s buy 46 It often follows a

crash 47 Overthrows 50 Federal benefits org. founded under FDR

51 Hit hard

53 Write “ere” for

this answer, say 54 “Mona Lisa” and

“Guernica” ... and, in a different way, the last words of 20-, 34and 42-Across

60 Debate provision 63 Spice native to

Indonesia 64 Hide in the

shadows, say 65 “Garfield” dog 66 Southend-onSea’s county 67 Movie “Citizen” 68 Parallel __ 69 Snookums

DOWN

1 East Asian desert 2 It can be a good

sign

3 Designer Jacobs 4 Wool from a

rabbit

5 Sudden loss of

courage

6 Where to see rats

and reps

7 Cheer

8 Fancify

9 What many pop

songs end with 10 Buddy 11 __ Altos,

California 12 Jackie’s second 13 Big __

19 Me or you or a

dog named Boo 21 Daredevil

Knievel

24 Early Olympians 25 Name related to

Peggy

26 Gems, for

example 27 Pickles on a

plate, often 28 Puts on hold, as

an agenda item 29 Wandering

vacuum

30 What you eat 32 Fat meas.

35 Part of IOU 36 Uncool one who

lately is sort of cool 38 Philosopher

__-tzu

39 Seeing no evil? 43 Not moving 44 Flow slowly 48 Having a tag on

it, maybe 49 Unsettling

closing words 52 Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth:

Abbr.

54 Put together 55 Kuwaiti ruler 56 Give a strong

impression (of ) 57 __ Nostra

58 Even one time 59 Like some

knockouts 60 Rockies bugler 61 Sine __ non 62 Coffee hour sight