LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Composer of the “Brandenburg” concertos 5 Slack-jawed 9 Flows back, as

the tide

13 Sci-fi visitor 15 Prefix for second

or bot

16 Paneling strip 17 WWII Russian

battleground 19 “Piece of cake!” 20 Big to-do 21 Rooftop satellite

fixture 23 Animation frame 24 More weird 26 Joint covered by

a bobby sock 28 Head of a manor 31 __ Howard, director of the film “Frost/nixon” 32 Dull-looking

33 Ostrich’s kin

34 Responds to

hunger pangs 35 Least common 38 Rap genre

40 Pisa’s region

41 Done in the

factory, as training 42 Hairpieces 43 Sleepy Van

Winkle 44 Brewpub libations 45 Gallery hangings 46 Concerning 47 Multitude 49 Mount Olympus

country 51 Earth-friendly

prefix

52 Biblical kingdom near the Dead Sea

54 Beethoven’s

“Moonlight,” e.g. 58 Latin god 60 House with short staircases, and a hint to each row of circles

62 Moist and chilly 63 Lascivious look 64 Fancy cake layers 65 Samberg of “Brooklyn Ninenine”

66 Gambler’s

chances

67 First Bond film

DOWN

1 Boisterous party 2 Choir voice 3 Turin “ta-ta”

4 Lent a hand 5 “Life of Pi”

director Lee 6 Floral exhibits

7 “We’re

broadcasting” sign

8 Many figures in the Marvel Universe 9 Language suffix

with Japan 10 Ursine hibernators that might actually be brown

11 Swiss city on the

Rhine

12 Subject for

Vogue

14 Cairo’s river

18 Tells a story 22 Annoy to death 25 Greek “i”

27 Agent pursuing a

dealer 28 Toymaker with worldwide theme parks

29 Arabian sultanate 30 Hangs out (with)

32 Lab procedure required of many athletes

34 High regard 36 Agitated state

37 Keyboarder’s

goof

39 __ the lily:

overembellish 40 Goodyear

product

42 Trilled like a bird 46 Virgil epic

47 Ibsen’s

“__ Gabler” 48 Salty expanse 49 Stared in wonder 50 Young horse 53 Norwegian

capital

55 Assert as true 56 Seagull kin

57 “What’s more ... ”

59 It can be cloudy

or sunny

61 Form 1040 org.