L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plane engine housing

4 Hindu philosophy

10 “Don’t leave”

14 Previously

15 Signals for firefighters

16 Only state with a non-rectangular flag

17 Big beverage server

18 Church official

20 “I’m game!”

22 Business abbr.

23 Singer Mann

24 Vermont senator since 2007

28 Gambling city on the Truckee

29 Golden Delicious, e.g.

30 Hosp. recovery area

32 Prepared

33 Add to the staff

37 With 39-Across, seed money ... or what 18-, 24-, 48- and 58-Across each has

39 See 37-Across

41 Jedi master with pointy ears

42 Twaddle

44 Business losses, figuratively

45 Biting desert lizards

47 Buddhist temple bell

48 “Thus with a kiss I die” speaker

53 Amazon Echo’s voice assistant

54 Youthful fellow

55 Difficult journey

58 Baked pasta dish

62 “__ you alone?”

63 Flood-anticipation precaution, briefly

64 Was nearly empty

65 Fabric flaw

66 Dollars for quarters

67 Word from a poser 68 Thus far

DOWN

1 Folklore lumberjack Bunyan

2 Fantasy meanie

3 “Chin up!”

4 Touch lightly

5 Harlem Renaissance writer Locke

6 C.S. Lewis’ fantasy world

7 Bench press beneficiary

8 White House’s 132: Abbr.

9 Firepit detritus

10 Three-dimensional

11 __ park

12 Broadcaster

13 Oxen connectors

19 Stick for a walk

21 Nissan sedan

25 Ginger or ginseng

26 Builder’s guideline, briefly

27 Ring exchange place

28 __-Rooter

30 “Gangnam Style” musician

31 Festival in the month of Adar

33 Holed up

34 Travel plan

35 Hit the bell

36 Caribou cousin

38 Sport for equestrians

40 Simon who co-wrote and co-starred in “Shaun of the Dead”

43 Sun worshiper’s mark

45 Nanny __

46 Bread or butter

48 Not so well-done

49 Salade niçoise morsel

50 Fox of “Transformers”

51 Precise

52 “Until next time”

56 Cleveland’s lake

57 Held on to

59 Tolkien monster

60 “Don’t think so”

61 Little lamb’s mom