LOS ANGELES 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-, 34- and 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