LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Finishes
5 Spill the beans
9 Chest muscle, for short
12 In __ of
13 Credit card user
14 “It follows logically that ... ”
15 Maintain
16 “Me too,” more formally
17 State of mind
18 Make a real mess
21 Chillingly strange
22 “Pronto!”
23 Many moons __
26 Rightmost computer menu, often
28 Cloak and __
30 Tortoise’s fabled competitor
33 Gymnastics rings position held with the body parallel to the ground
36 Norse god of war
37 Collaborative sites
38 Another, in Spanish
39 Feature of some espadrilles
41 Witnessed
42 Swim team swimwear
43 Toward sunrise
46 Extra sports periods, briefly
47 Per person
50 Chops, as an onion
53 Force-multiplying device that can be found at the beginning of 18-, 33-, and 39-Across
57 Japanese noodle 59 Dog collar dangler
60 Notion
61 Come to a stop
62 “You’ve got some __!”
63 Shakespeare’s mad king
64 “Yellowjackets” network, briefly
65 Mardi __: preLenten festival
66 Annoys
DOWN
1 Part of BPOE
2 Nephew’s sister
3 Brand of riding mowers
4 Ruins at Durrington Walls that once consisted of wooden posts, not stones
5 Giant party
6 Winona’s
“Beetlejuice” role
7 Very long time 8 Units led by colonels
9 Grow cuttings from a succulent, say
10 Alter __
11 Fish that may be black or blue
13 Dev of “Lion”
14 Down Under bird
19 Golfer Michelle __ West
20 Practice in the ring
24 Bookstore section
25 Liver, for one
27 Ballet barre bend
29 Pepper in extremely hot curry dishes
30 “Can you explain?”
31 Skilled (at)
32 Works alone
34 __ out a win: almost lose
35 Disgusting
37 Extraordinarily large
40 Dutch cheese
44 “Better late than never,” e.g.
45 [as per the original]
48 More mature
49 Historic site in Jordan known as the Rose City
51 Duck down
52 Go on tiptoe
54 Picked-off pass, for short
55 Big D NBA squad
56 Prominent feature of a fennec fox
57 Hesitation syllables
58 Lah-di-__