L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Uneducated guess 5 Recreation in which players become characters, for short

9 Get rid of

14 Word before or after brand

15 Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity chain

16 Pup

17 Figure skating leap 18 Launched at great speed 20 Place at the track?

22 Calf's suckling spot 23 Stuntman Knievel 24 Lioness of film 28 Hard-to-fold bed linens 31 Airport rental

34 Have title to

35 Mexican pyramid builder 36 Herb in Italian seasoning 39 Lively, musically

41 Ready to bloom

42 No. on a grad's résumé 43 Va. winter hours

44 Senior British military rank

49 Unload for cash

50 Yale students

51 “Better in Time” singer Lewis 55 Phrase including hand gestures symbolized by the puzzle circles 58 Russian ballet company, familiarly

61 Deadly shark 62 Bad-tempered

63 Mario __: Nintendo racing game series

64 “It's my time to shine!” 65 Leg joints

66 Iowa State city 67 Screwball

DOWN

1 Major mess

2 No. on an IRS form 3 Make changes to 4 “You are beyond __!”: “Incredible!”

5 High in calories

6 Early stage of a clinical trial 7 Avenged a wrong 8 Completely forgot, in slang

9 Created, as a web 10 Portmanteau brand for flu symptoms 11 Nonsense

12 Blackjack half 13 Scholar's deg. 19 Campaign pros

21 __ Lanka

25 “I got this”

26 Dance moves

27 Fancy necktie

29 Truck weight unit 30 Fedora, e.g.

31 Elaborate dos

32 Golfer Palmer, to fans 33 Billy Idol's “__ Yell” 37 Easily fooled

38 Use an abacus

39 FedEx Office alternative 40 Dismissive sound 42 “A Time to Kill” novelist John

45 Kitten cry

46 “North to the Future” state

47 Actor Mahershala of Netflix's “Luke Cage” 48 B'way show with the song “Valjean's Confession”

52 44th president

53 Canon competitor 54 Terrible pain

56 Hasbro specialty 57 Oldies, in their day 58 “Shame on you!”

59 Attila the __

60 Bard's “before”