LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Warning sound from a rattlesnake

5 Electrical pioneer Nikola 10 Certain partner

14 “Hello... hello... hello...,” e.g. 15 To no __: without success 16 Each, informally

17 Sign gas

18 Paper size longer than letter 19 Cab

20 *Pink flower native to eastern North America 23 Leftover

24 Sound system

27 Eyes a bull’s-eye, say 30 Chapel centerpiece

32 U.K. lawmakers

35 *Like a game that involves

evasive subterfuge 39 Oodles

41 Chutney fruit

42 Chief Valhalla god 43 *Migratory honker

46 WNW’s opposite

47 Reptile in the Chinese zodiac 48 __-esteem

50 Pays for everyone

53 Reading lights

57 Solve a mystery, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues

61 “Veep” actress Chlumsky 64 Latest craze

65 Tehran’s land

66 See 28-Down

67 Campaign button word 68 Guitarist Lofgren 69 Deal (with) 70 Searches for 71 Checkers or chess

DOWN

1 From this point forward 2 Climbing tool for frozen

surfaces

3 Low on funds

4 Mexican state bordering

Arizona

5 Anklebones

6 Level

7 Very long story

8 Perjurers

9 Parcel out

10 ABBA hit with the line “I was

defeated, you won the war” 11 Craft beer letters

12 “Sour grapes” critter

13 Prefix with -logue

21 Not of the clergy

22 Tailor’s line

25 Piano piece

26 Welcome sight in the desert 28 With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft

29 Male deer

31 Actress Russo

32 Apple computers

33 Garden growth 34 Underwater detector

36 “It’s __-win situation” 37 Private aid gps.

38 Prescribed amount 40 Friendly send-off 44 Cherished

45 Fashion monthly

49 Not back-to-back with 51 Makes less unruly 52 Bathroom accessory 54 Tennis star Sharapova 55 Sacred song

56 Smell, for one

58 Joint between the foot and

the hip

59 Clock sound

60 Bowlers and berets

61 Start of the alphabet song 62 “The Matrix” hero

63 Quick snooze