L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brutus' 300 4 Florida city on its own bay

9 Actor Charlie or his dad Martin

14 “Oh, I get it now!” 15 Schoolbag measuring stick

16 Overly theatrical 17 “Frozen” collectible 18 1980 Travolta/Winger film set in Texas 20 Asian island capital 22 Bring to mind 23 Aristocracy 26 Fateful March day 29 London district 30 NBA tiebreakers 31 Agassi of tennis

32 Cat burglar's undoing

35 Con artist's target 36 Fond du __, Wisconsin 39 Previously owned auto 41 Fla. summer hrs. 42 Top NFL player 44 More out of sorts 46 Smelly emanations 47 Tulsa sch. named for an evangelist 48 “Avalon” author Seton 52 Freelancer's encl.

53 Pandemonium 56 Cybermoney 58 Chickpea dip 59 Where a quarterback may line up 63 Language suffix 64 Like a nasty remark 65 Waze suggestion 66 Novelist Deighton 67 Trait carriers 68 Editorial second thoughts

69 Up until now

DOWN

1 Plant seen in Road Runner cartoons 2 Bargain-basement 3 Islamic leader

4 More factual

5 Bond foe Goldfinger 6 Org. with A's and O's 7 Veggie in a pod 8 James of “Gunsmoke” 9 “Beat it!”

10 “A Brief History of Time” author Stephen 11 Attached to a military unit, as a journalist 12 Angsty music genre 13 Bronx team, initially 19 Walgreens rival 21 Low-level laborer

24 Drop, as weight

25 Was humbled 27 Bow-wielding god 28 Mailed

31 Billion suffix

33 Yours and mine 34 Personal ad “looking for” 35 Good buddy

36 East Asian country 37 Alan of “M*A*S*H” 38 Approached for a raid

40 Board game with a candlestick

43 Lead up to 45 Former Chicago mayor Emanuel

47 “Plays well with __” 49 For instance

50 “It's like this,” and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers 51 Agree

53 Sch. near Hollywood 54 Scarlett's Butler 55 Heals

57 Greek war god 59 Post-Civil War pres. 60 SSW's opposite

61 “__ on my watch!” 62 U.S. Election Day: Abbr.