L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Barcelona buddy 6 Scattered, as seeds

10 Rifle filler

14 Hopeless case

15 Fast-food legend Ray 16 Enjoy a comic book, say 17 Small plucked instrument 19 Fall back (on)

20 “__ Been Awhile”: Staind song

21 Columnist Landers

22 Israeli president, 20072014

23 Blackjack card

24 New York region, or its narrow bodies of water 27 Petit or grand crime 29 Docking fee

30 Hog's nose

31 Objective

32 Fisher-Price product 33 Tropical tree leaf

38 Busy IRS month

41 Not at home

42 China's Zhou __

46 Doesn't miss a thing 49 Forbes publisher Forbes 51 Fluttering pitch

53 Dainty taste

54 Gelatin dish

55 Slugging legend Mel 56 Canonized Fr. female 57 Slimming surg.

58 Popular necktie knot ... and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 33- and 51-Across

62 Cookie cooker

63 Big on

64 Vital heart line

65 “Bill & __ Excellent Adventure”

66 Cap'n's underling 67 Wyoming's __ Range

DOWN

1 Ten-percenter: Abbr. 2 Native American in a Cooper title

3 Not yet born 4 Precious stones

5 Mars or Venus

6 Like teenagers in the comic strip

“Zits”

7 Chimp kin

8 Was victorious

9 Sgt. or cpl.

10 Unpaid debt

11 Kalahari mongoose 12 Source of machismo, perhaps

13 Epic journey 18 Tylenol target

22 Gaza Strip gp.

23 Capp and Capone

24 Greek cheese

25 Mideast ruler

26 NFL analyst Tony

28 Trophy shape

31 Toward the tiller

34 Hang around

35 Grand Canyon animal

36 “Little” Dickens girl

37 Org. hacked at its Watergate offices

38 Require much (of)

39 Lost in thought

40 Signed on for another tour

43 Skill rarely practiced now 44 Not aligned with

45 Little rascal

47 Descendants

48 “Best in Show” org.

49 __ of honor

50 High: Pref.

52 Boxing matches

56 Horse's footwear 58 Innocuous falsehood 59 Musician Yoko

60 __ King Cole

61 “The Da Vinci Code” author Brown