L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Electrically flexible 5 Mammals who hold hands while sleeping 11 Cy Young Award stat

14 “So gross”

15 Persona non grata

16 Hula hoop?

17 “Shake It Up” star who won a 2015 Teen Choice Award for her role in “The DUFF”

19 __ Bernardino

20 Helicopter part

21 Mineral suffix 22 Crackerjack

24 All ears

26 Sport-__

27 “Monster” Oscar winner 34 Yellow Teletubby

35 Rower's need

36 Like old records

37 Returns home?

38 Blush or flush

41 ATM maker

42 Thick fog

44 Narc's org.

45 Element used in atomic clocks

47 Another name for the Romanov Empire

50 Lay unused 51 A/C units

52 “'Sup, homie” 55 “Ballers” network 57 Gets rid of

61 Binary digit

62 Masked hero who partners with Kato 65 Feel badly about 66 Income recipient

67 Avis adjective

68 Medium strength? 69 Arm-twisting

70 “Son of Frankenstein” role

DOWN

1 This ans. is one

2 Ancient queen, familiarly

3 Bench press muscle 4 __ hydrate: sedative 5 Decide

6 South Pacific island

7 Easy pace

8 Word on an Irish euro 9 Hightailed it

10 Tight-fitting dress

11 “Is there something __?” 12 Cut the crop

13 “If it __ broke ... ”

18 Where Noah landed 23 Consider 25 Strong praise 26 Netherlands city near Amsterdam 27 Billiards bounce

28 Invites to the skybox 29 Divided into districts 30 Corn unit

31 Masterless samurai 32 Perfectly timed

33 It's to be expected 34 Actress Virna

39 Stephen who plays Inspector Bucket on “Dickensian”

40 “Talk Dirty” singer Jason 43 100 centavos 46 “A thousand pardons” 48 Uneven

49 Sizzler choices

52 Knight times

53 Obligation

54 Like a basso profundo voice

55 Berlin mister

56 N.B. part

58 Glitch

59 Architect Saarinen

60 Have the lead

63 “This Is India” novelist Santha

Rama __

64 Billing nos.