LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Former Yankee slugger,

familiarly

5 Barrel of laughs

9 “Joy of Cooking” writer

Rombauer

13 Take away

15 Skeleton prefix

16 Is sorry about

17 *Chilled caffeinated drink 19 __-lock brakes

20 Pt. of HDTV

21 __ facto

22 “Moby-Dick” ship

24 Slim woodwind

26 Not well

27 “Star Wars” pilot Dameron 28 *Cold War barrier 32 Blueprints

33 Orderly

34 Comply with

38 Frying liquids

39 Holy book

40 Small valley

41 Ward on “FBI”

42 Brazilian berry

43 Medicinal units 44 *Close-knit, influential group 47 Legal org.

50 Lummox

51 Peters out

52 Tearjerker featuring Anna Chlumsky in her feature-film debut

54 Ceramics oven

56 “__ the season ... “

59 Radar screen spot 60 *English name of a West

African republic

63 Refrain syllables

64 Majorino of “Veronica Mars” 65 Cosmetician Lauder 66 Meadow moms 67 Affirmative votes

68 Pass (through) slowly

DOWN

1 In the thick of

2 Risotto grain

3 Part of the Three Musketeers’ credo

4 Lemon

5 NFL officials

6 The 411

7 “__ of Girls’ Things”: poem by

Sharon Olds

8 Metal tab that protects a shoe 9 Baghdad’s country 10 Accumulate, as charges 11 “Same here!”

12 “All kidding __ ... “14 Descendants

18 Oil cartel acronym 23 “Riverdale” actor Goree 25 Tiny potted tree

26 Slanted, as a typeface 28 1970s tennis star Nastase 29 Worldwide humanitarian gp. 30 Concrete-reinforcing rod 31 “Sorry, can’t help ya” 32 Spots to buy stamps: Abbr. 35 Mid-American Conference

university in Indiana 36 Actress Fanning

37 “Of course!”

39 Triteness

43 Royal son

45 Fin. neighbour

46 In a lazy way

47 Saunter

48 Internal regulation for a club 49 Nimble

53 Hoppy brews, briefly

54 Beer company based in Hawaii 55 Some nest eggs, for short 57 Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues 58 Dance move

61 “C’est la __!”

62 CIA predecessor