L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ancient wizard 5 Serbian-born NBA center __ Jokic
11 Fella
14 Speck 15 Bordeaux wine 16 Narrow inlet 17 Grasslands around Dakar?
19 Petition
20 High ranges 21 Holder of 61 NHL records 23 Chamber group 24 Comet relative 25 Retire
28 Jessica of “Dark Angel” 31 Winter vacation purchase
33 Part of a late 1900s demographic
35 “The Simpsons” storekeeper 36 Feature of a map of Baghdad?
38 MD treating canals
39 Oklahoma tribe
41 Accidental
43 Genesis twin
44 Middle of a three-part
start
45 Subtly points out
48 Present time?
51 Uniform concern, maybe 53 Late author whose daughter wrote, “As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y” 56 Behave 57 Laid-back attitude in Hanoi? 59 Charlotte of “The Facts of Life”
60 Bivouac
61 Times past
62 Uma's “Pulp Fiction” role
63 Perceived to be
64 Caesar and others
DOWN
1 One side of a physics equivalence principle 2 Bit the dust
3 One with no hope 4 Honored retirees 5 Indiana-based sports org.
6 Troubles
7 Penn of “House” 8 Crater Lake locale 9 Hear (of) 10 Without a clue 11 Longing in São Paulo? 12 Take a shot at 13 Wine nuance word
18 Exuberant fan
22 IRS agent
24 Fish restaurant offerings
26 Unusual
27 Eavesdropping org.
29 Twisted
30 Focus for some collectors 31 Watering holes
32 Hot spot in
Al Ahmadi?
33 Masterpieces
34 Test involving gradually
longer lines
35 Mimic
37 Round Table VIP
40 Creatures
of habit?
42 Some bank acct. charges
44 Homer's home
46 Fins
47 Slate, for one
49 Original Flashback games console designer
50 “What a pity” 51 Wrong 52 Smoothie fruit
53 Fed. lending agency 54 Criticizes
55 Storied loch
58 Brown shade