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