LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hissed “Hey! Over here!”

5 Island nation near Fiji

10 Milky birthstone

14 Teensy bit

15 Smells

16 Payroll tax that funds Soc. Sec.

17 Shiver during a horror film, perhaps

20 Whenever one wants

21 Historic German state

22 Hay storage areas

25 Curved piece

26 Slumdog Millionaire actor Patel

29 Thick fast-food beverage

34 Colorful eye part

36 Jazz great Fitzgerald

37 Iced tea garnish

38 Reef explorer’s tube

40 Church spire

42 Tiny hairs

43 Odd sock’s lack

45 American Gods novelist Gaiman

46 Finalise an agreement, say

49 Tennis do-over

50 Cry of insight

51 Killer whales

53 Starting to spoil

57 Vacuum brand

61 Start of a KC and the Sunshine Band title, and 17-, 29-, and 46-Across

64 Big mountain cat

65 Suez Canal tanker

66 Small bills

67 Lower leg area

68 Shopping centers

69 Exam

DOWN

1 Bread with a pocket

2 Put laundry into piles, say

3 Meat-and-potatoes bowlful 4 Language spoken by many a 35-Down

5 Like many infomercial phone numbers

6 Poem written “on” or “to” something

7 Right this minute

8 Hold tight

9 Off course

10 Like a movie star’s personal life

11 Diner desserts

12 Antioxidant-rich purple

berry

13 __ Croft: Tomb Raider

18 Group of allied countries

19 Steeplechase obstacle

23 “Out with it!”

24 Paolantonio of ESPN

26 Vertebrae separators

27 123 Sesame Street resident

28 String quartet instrument

30 The “M” of MBA

31 Urge forward

32 “Honest!”

33 Prepared to pray

35 Colombo resident

39 TV host __ Lee Gifford

41 Classroom figures

44 Brouhaha

47 __ cab: two-wheeled carriage

48 Landlocked Asian country

52 Not __: far from optimal

53 Recipe amts.

54 “Nah”

55 Actor Malek

56 Karmann __: classic Volkswagen

58 Barn topper that indicates wind direction

59 Makes do, with “out”

60 Lie down for a while

62 Completely

63 Kenan’s former Nickelodeon partner