L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Percolate

5 After, in Avignon

10 Texting format initials

13 Tiniest bit

14 Flexible

15 __ it on thick

16 *Sound made by bursting a cereal bag?

18 Ancient

19 Fix, in a way

20 Tags on Insta, say

21 __ song

22 California home of the National Yo-Yo Museum

24 “Us” director Jordan

25 Sales talk

29 *24-hour TV marathon that requires glasses?

31 “Brave New World” drug

32 __-ray

33 Rooibos, for one

34 With 36-Across, first encounter, or what the answers to the starred clues make?

36 See 34-Across

40 University extension

41 Baseball's Mattingly

42 Sound reflection

43 *Many fan letters to N.W.A.?

47 Spot of land

48 Some vines

49 Bailey's Irish __

51 Give for a time

52 Means to be cooler

53 Irrigates

58 Gerund suffix

59 *Bridge that plays a familiar note when crossed?

61 Take advice from a personal injury lawyer, perhaps

62 Submits taxes sans paper

63 Anti-fur gp.

64 Them alternative

65 Make big bangs?

66 Percolate

DOWN

1 Compact __

2 Wrangler's need

3 Shipped pair?

4 Walk to and fro

5 Tide shelfmate

6 Detective voiced by Ryan Reynolds

7 Kite, for one

8 Father of Kenan

9 Gas additive brand

10 Got ready to stop

11 UNESCO's __ Fund for Girls' Right to Education

12 “Finding Nemo” city

14 Well-worn trail

17 Move slowly

21 Gets ready for surgery

23 “__ cost ya!”

24 Hammer end

25 Penultimate Greek letter

26 F-, e.g.

27 “I'm covering my ears now!”

28 Like some retro frames

30 School near Heathrow

32 Scarecrow creator

35 __ of March

36 Natalie with nine Grammys

37 Knee pt.

38 Marxist Guevara

39 Tyke

41 Oktoberfest outfits

43 Billie who is the youngest woman to win two Oscars

44 Way, or means

45 Snappy put-down

46 National park on Mount Desert Island

47 Apple with a few cores

50 Stupefies

52 Revolutionary era pipe

54 Baking amts.

55 Foil alternative

56 Give a star, maybe

57 Lose it

59 Crossed

60 Greta of “The Morning Show”