L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Half of a stiff price to pay 4 Chinese food additive 7 Breed from Honshu

12 Sob story makeup

14 __ Nui: Easter Island 15 Jell-O flavor

16 Food for the kitty? 17 *British-owned American hotel chain

19 Robert the Bruce, for one 20 Speak with style

21 Latin “to be”

22 *Went on foot

24 Boys

26 Actress Longoria 27 Substitute for

30 Cat Deeley's role on “So You Think You Can Dance” 33 *Wind chill factor relative 35 Jobs title, once

36 Represent inaccurately 37 Web access co. 38 *Three-time U.S. Open champion

41 “Semper fidelis” is one 43 Veterans

44 Refuge for couples? 45 Italian automaker 46 *Subject of much debate 51 Golfer's transport

53 Night calls 55 Radius neighbor

56 With “The,” one of 50 since 8/21/1959, as hinted at by the answers to starred clues

58 Eyeglass frames

59 Have more People come to the house? 60 City near

Anaheim

61 Dueling sport

62 Midler of “Hello Dolly” 63 Leb. neighbor

64 Cap initials at Busch Stadium

DOWN

1 Knee-deep (in) 2 Chop-O-Matic maker 3 Anti-harassment movement

4 New Zealand settler

5 Paint spill sound

6 Stable pace

7 In the style of

8 Entered, as data

9 “That went right over my head”

10 Truckloads

11 Heche of “Psycho” (1998) 13 Fixed charge 14 Valerie Harper sitcom 18 Get rid of

23 Christmas __

25 Boxer who beat

Frazier twice

27 Ball game delayer 28 Tuxedo part

29 Former Canadian MLBer 30 Repeat

31 Happy __

32 Leading edge of cooler temperatures

33 Cuts down

34 Yale alum

36 Thin soups

39 Peter the Great, e.g. 40 401(k) kin, briefly 41 CT scan relative 42 “Sounds good”

44 Utterly confused

46 White with frost

47 Furry swimmer

48 Berth places

49 Not yet achieved, as a goal

50 Art class item

51 Atkins no-no

52 Toward shelter

54 Some parlors, for short

57 Stun