LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Scholarly titles, briefly
4 Certain cephalopods
10 Spaghetti strap top
14 “Please tell me that didn’t happen!”
16 Rights activist Clooney
17 Banishing acts
18 Choice
19 Strategically placed whoopee cushion, say
20 Waters down
22 Canine greeting
23 About half the weight of an average car
26 Request for a distraction
28 Flower plot
29 Vulgar
32 Hightail it
33 King nicknamed “Longshanks”
35 Pro fighter
36 Cyborg detective of TV and film
40 Formal denial
41 Email attentiongetters
42 Shim, for example
44 Slant
45 Saw from behind?
48 Most charged
50 “Take a chill pill”
52 Include
53 Popular tech service
56 Goddess credited in a Milky Way origin account
57 Stat in standings
59 Smallest Central American country
62 Job under the hood
63 Ones who see what you mean
64 “Come Sail Away” rock band
65 Applies, as flattery
66 Nanjiani’s “The Lovebirds” co-star
DOWN
1 Going platinum, maybe
2 “Hunger” memoirist __ Gay
3 Ate dinner
4 Massage therapist’s supply
5 Vinyl successors
6 Buffoon
7 Cry from one who knows the answer
8 Near-the-deadline response, at times
9 “Whatevs”
10 Farm country avian cry
11 “You don’t doubt me, do you?”
12 Husky cousin
13 Doorbell response
15 Song one can’t perform?
21 Dept. in a “Law & Order” spin-off
24 Shoppe name word
25 It can be faked with air freshener
27 “My heavens!”
30 Power measure
31 Refuse
33 “Paradise Lost” et al.
34 __ coffee
36 Puts on the hard drive
37 Left in disgust or fear, slangily
38 Is ready to act
39 Oscar winner Paquin
43 Brain scan inits.
45 Garden tool
46 Northern sky sight
47 Minimalist
49 Shire of “Rocky”
51 Herring type
54 Road game
55 Metallica drummer Ulrich
58 Census checkbox
60 Cancer follower
61 Soccer mom’s usual ride