L.A TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Former Yankee slugger, familiarly
5 Barrel of laughs
9 “Joy of Cooking” writer Rombauer
13 Take away
15 Skeleton prefix
16 Is sorry about
17 *Chilled caffeinated drink
19 __-lock brakes
20 Pt. of HDTV
21 __ facto
22 “Moby-Dick” ship
24 Slim woodwind
26 Not well
27 “Star Wars” pilot Dameron
28 *Cold War barrier
32 Blueprints
33 Orderly
34 Comply with
38 Frying liquids
39 Holy book
40 Small valley
41 Ward on “FBI”
42 Brazilian berry
43 Medicinal units
44 *Close-knit, influential group
47 Legal org.
50 Lummox
51 Peters out
52 Tearjerker featuring Anna Chlumsky in her featurefilm debut
54 Ceramics oven
56 “__ the season ... ”
59 Radar screen spot
60 *English name of a West African republic
63 Refrain syllables
64 Majorino of “Veronica Mars”
65 Cosmetician Lauder
66 Meadow moms
67 Affirmative votes
68 Pass (through) slowly
DOWN
1 In the thick of
2 Risotto grain
3 Part of the Three Musketeers' credo
4 Lemon
5 NFL officials
6 The 411
7 “__ of Girls' Things”: poem by Sharon Olds
8 Metal tab that protects a shoe
9 Baghdad's country
10 Accumulate, as charges
11 “Same here!”
12 “All kidding __ ... ”
14 Descendants
18 Oil cartel acronym
23 “Riverdale” actor Goree
25 Tiny potted tree
26 Slanted, as a typeface
28 1970s tennis star Nastase
29 Worldwide humanitarian gp.
30 Concrete-reinforcing rod
31 “Sorry, can't help ya”
32 Spots to buy stamps: Abbr.
35 Mid-American Conference university in Indiana
36 Actress Fanning
37 “Of course!”
39 Triteness
43 Royal son
45 Fin. neighbor
46 In a lazy way
47 Saunter
48 Internal regulation for a club
49 Nimble
53 Hoppy brews, briefly
54 Beer company based in Hawaii
55 Some nest eggs, for short
57 Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues
58 Dance move
61 “C'est la __!”
62 CIA predecessor