LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Staples buys 4 Pooh-pooh,

with “at” 9 Author Stieg

Larsson, for one 14 Deduction cry 15 “While I’ve got your attention ... ” 16 Big name in seating

Zip on a field Passion for quilt filling? 20 Fall cause

22 Not heard before 23 1945 summit site 24 Contest among

bank customers? 27 __ Road Ensemble, group initiated by Yo-Yo Ma 29 Portaged craft 30 Needing no Rx 32 Stick in a hall 33 “The buck stops

here” president 36 Baloney 38 Segment of a

clogging contest? 41 Jokhang Temple

city

42 Words spoken with one’s hand raised 43 Corp. bailed

out in 2008 17 18 44 Auction set 46 Made hands of 49 Swatting target 51 Airline passenger’s arrival malady? Grass unit Yield from una mina Laser-cut, perhaps 59 Female

observer?

62 __ jump 63 Unexpressed 64 Pulitzer poet

Conrad __ 65 Work hard (for) 66 Aboveboard 67 Handle

68 Ajar, in verse 55 57

58

DOWN

1 Suit part 2 Former French

president

3 DNA sample

source

4 Sound with tears 5 Pitcher’s

surprise

6 Kitchen brand 7 Mufti issuance 8 “Here’s the

scoop” letters 9 Tokyo-based game company They’re thin at budget motels 10 11 Email

adornment 12 Weakened,

as currency 13 Legal add-on 19 Siberian

freeze-out? 21 Mottled

equines

25 Routine 26 Crichton novel

set in Africa 28 Longboat in

Florida, e.g. 31 Singled out 34 Mazda two-seater 35 Hexapod

worker

37 Cause of a

blinking “12:00” 38 Tibia

39 Emulate a little

brother, maybe By Chuck Deodene (c) 2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 40 Ham’s creation 41 Tarry

45 Author

Robert __ Butler 47 Unhands

48 Affix to a

corkboard 50 Castmate of Doohan and Nimoy

52 “Cross my heart!” 53 Male on

a pond

54 View from Schönburg Castle

56 Gossip 59 Diminutive,

diminutively 60 Main delivery Cold-sounding product prefix 61 8-10-18