LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nest egg, perhaps

6 One of the Tide’s rivals 9 Marine supports

14 Literary musketeer

15 Kind of moment

16 Fancy tie

17 Rubber in the kitchen? 19 European river

20 Overly suave

21 Driver’s warning

22 Rocker since the ‘60s,

familiarly

23 Smidge

24 Major seen annually in Paris 26 Pedi places

29 “Atlas Shrugged” author

Rand

30 Will of “Blue Bloods” 32 They may be fine 35 Remained on the shelf 38 “C’est la vie”

42 Country E of Cyprus 43 Edward G.’s “Little Caesar”

role

44 Light on one’s feet 45 “Breaking Bad” org. 47 Islamic official

48 Ones skilled at making

deductions

54 Hagen of Broadway

57 Some nerve?

58 Fixer’s need

59 Not good, as a chance 60 Asking __

61 White House nickname 63 Criticizes to excess, with

“on” 64 Supplement, with “out” 65 Interrupt ... and a hint to

each set of puzzle circles 66 Iditarod vehicles

67 Trip taker’s vehicle 68 Brainstorming output

DOWN

1 Northwest Passage seeker 2 Sunlit courts

3 Temple, for one

4 Sanctified

5 Immigrant’s subj.

6 Jet trail

7 Midway alternative 8 Freight-filled, say

9 Like the Okefenokee

10 He played Steve in “Jobs” 11 Reporter’s coup

12 Metric unit

13 Rembrandt contemporary 18 Plural word attached to rip

or send

25 Durango digs

27 Adoptee, maybe

28 Pack animal

30 UFO operators

31 Like one sitting alone at the

dance, probably

32 Sashimi selection

33 VCR button

34 Bill featuring Jefferson 35 Jump-start

36 Come down with something 37 “Four Quartets” monogram 39 Corner

40 Orange edible 41 Supermarket franchise

initials

45 Cleared, in a way, as plane

wings

46 More than needed

47 Chain link?

48 Trading cards giant

49 Arbor Day month 50 Scrabble 8-pointer

51 Lucy’s landlord, in old TV 52 Pieces that castle 53 High-__: pretentious 55 Knee-to-ankle bone 56 Agreeing chorus

59 Poker choice

62 It may be natural: Abbr.