L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Apple remnant

5 Picket line crosser 9 Proverbial waste maker 14 Like die-hard fans

15 Furry red Muppet

16 Snake River state

17 Sam Houston served twice as its president 20 Rapper Dr. __

21 Shade tree subject to blight

22 Lubricated

23 Black __ : covert missions 25 Cost for an online pop-up 28 General guideline

31 Safari automaker

34 Wraps up

35 Fish trapped in pots 36 “Word is ... ”

38 Geronimo's tribe

40 Board meeting outline 41 Motherless calf

42 Tear canal

45 Actresses Long and Vardalos

46 Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr. 47 Credible quality 50 Intermittent, as fog

51 “To each __ own”

52 Bill Belichick, e.g. 54 Boathouse item 56 One __ million

59 Hint that a storm is approaching

63 Quite heavy

64 Cookie in dirt pudding 65 Extremely tired 66 Desires

67 Florist's arrangement 68 Indy 500 racers DOWN

1 Birthday __

2 Finished

3 One's golden years 4 Academic URL ender 5 Pitch successfully 6 Long-term weather conditions

7 “The Walking Dead” channel

8 Unhappy fan's shout

9 Win the jackpot 10 One-named

“Skyfall” singer 11 __-Coburg, Bavaria 12 Former Mississippi senator Cochran

13 Dawn goddess

18 Kiss, in Cancún

19 Shaving lather

24 Joe of “My Cousin Vinny” 26 FedEx rival 27 Country with 11 time zones: Abbr.

28 Curls up with a Kindle 29 Take out of its container, as a houseplant

30 Service charge

31 “That's super-creative thinking!”

32 Angry with

33 Wall Street disaster

37 Painter Matisse 39 Performer of the 12 labors, to the Greeks 40 Justice dept. division 42 Party gp. chaired by Tom Perez

43 “That's gross!”

44 Prairie canines

48 “Am __ only one?” 49 Drive-__ window

50 Blue Ribbon beer

52 1962 Missile Crisis country

53 Dark clouds, to some 55 Sailor's hail

57 Close by

58 Creative pursuits

59 Movie theater division 60 Comics' Alley __

61 To's partner

62 Peacock logo network