L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bad cut

5 And

9 __ Ababa

14 Natural skin soother 15 Good earth

16 Datum in a forensic database

17 Impediment 19 Neighborhood gathering 20 Outcasts

21 Boiling point?

22 “No seats” sign

23 Score after deuce

25 Beach application 28 Billion-dollar pharmaceuticals

34 More than suspect

36 Early 20th-century touring cars

37 Part of a joke

38 Lingering effect

39 Not as dotty

41 Colorado tributary 42 Massey of old films 44 Thoroughbred's dad 45 “Git!”

46 One with a lot to learn, perhaps

49 Obstruction

50 Pushed the doorbell 51 Night school subj. 53 Scandinavian bar exchange

57 Corrode

61 Local anesthesia effect 62 Device with pulleys 64 Words in some English resort town names 65 Major fit

66 First name in homespun humor

67 Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle

68 Watched carefully 69 Exchange jabs

DOWN

1 [You can't mean that!] 2 Wasatch Mountains resort

3 __ grapes

4 Some Chrysler engines 5 Around-the-clock

6 Half a Daily Planet byline 7 __ Antonio

8 Texting interjection 9 Tacks on

10 “Phooey!”

11 __-cheap

12 Like some JFK flights

13 Lid issue

18 Verbal jab 21 Cassis apéritif

23 Penitent

24 Mirage site

25 Knitter's coil

26 Family reunion attendee 27 At all

29 A pass may cover one 30 Brief rules?

31 City in New York's Mohawk Valley 32 Stalin-era prison 33 Dramatic outpouring 35 Policy __

40 Readied, as leftovers 43 Puncture consequence 47 Court figures, for short

48 Ensenada pronoun 52 Velcro alternative 53 Nose-in-the-air sort 54 __ Ration

55 Guesstimate phrase 56 With, on le menu 57 Do landscaping work

58 Dr. Johnny Fever's fictional station 59 Soprano Gluck 60 Sommelier's concern

62 “__ you out of your mind?”

63 “All opposed” reply