LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Kid around with

5 Wind with two reeds

9 Young fellow, in Ireland

14 Square footage, say

15 Mama’s mate

16 Rapper Ice Cube’s first name

17 *Trendy terms

19 Cardinals and Orioles

20 Runs in, copstyle

22 Ready for picking

23 Passage in a personal journal

26 Runs at full speed

28 College courtyard

29 Guerrilla Guevara

32 Curtain holders

33 Cities, informally

34 “(Marie’s the Name) __ Latest Flame”: Elvis hit

35 Dutch beer brand

38 Silent communication syst.

39 Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues?

41 Mine find

42 Eyed lecherously

44 Rose of Guns N’ Roses

45 Not kosher

46 Elevated on a peg, as a golf ball

47 Hoped-for response to a marriage proposal

48 Splinter group

49 Mongoose family member

52 Needing practice

53 Luxury hotel

54 Ketchup-and-mayo dressing

58 Title film cousin

60 *Popular cause to jump on

64 Formal “Just me”

65 Lake with the same first and last letter

66 Long skirt

67 German steel city

68 Pro __: in proportion

69 Fan favorite

DOWN

1 Boxer’s quick punch

2 Christian sch. in Tulsa

3 States, slangily

4 Ventures, as a guess

5 Skunk’s defense

6 Naked

7 Betting ratios

8 Divisions for the Yanks and Mets

9 Automated spam sender

10 Log-in needs

11 *Mall anchors

12 Well-groomed

13 Desert havens

18 Dryly humorous

21 Spreads out one’s arms and legs

23 Math sign

24 Hospital worker

25 *Game with paddles

27 CD-__: data holders

29 Cracker cheese

30 Rush, old-style

31 Op-ed piece, e.g.

36 Upright

37 Southpaw

39 Search for

40 Chopping tool

43 Get the rest of the soap out of

45 Tidal wave cousin

49 Theater feature

50 Radiates

51 Potato or yam

52 Uncooked

55 __ Lee: dessert brand

56 Sulky state

57 “Good thinking!” thought

59 Yang’s partner

61 Wander (about)

62 Kitchen tool brand

63 Naught