LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Decision-making tool
5 Slips in pots
10 Assure, as victory
13 One of four on a keyboard
15 Comics unit
16 Nice handle?
17 Cheeky server?
19 Call from a cote
20 Former Rocket Ming
21 Hanoi holiday
22 “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester
23 Sgt.’s underling
26 Bro on the go?
29 Alienate
31 Creator of many word lists
32 Sailing
33 Stately shaders
36 ’40s Giant manager
37 European auto left out in the rain?
41 Draw at a pub
42 Weight adjustment factor
43 One no longer serving
45 Prove to be untrue
47 Late arriver’s cry
49 Food for thought?
52 Airport near OAK
53 Outwit, as a tail 54 Taker of ppm measurements
55 Dorm room, perhaps
57 Bad picnic omen
58 Result of a yank prank?
63 B.S. part: Abbr.
64 Oven setting
65 Put an end to
66 Rocky outcropping
67 AAA and NRA
68 Bar shelf lineup
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1 Half-__: coffee choice
2 Nine-time NHL AllStar
3 Aran Islands country: Abbr.
4 Prone to prying
5 Many an IRS e-file user
6 1492 landing site, now
7 Gathering of spies
8 Show instability
9 Hasselblad product
10 5-Down’s concern
11 “Chillax!”
12 Act to excess
14 Hula Hoop manufacturer
18 Sound system component 22 Rendered immobile
23 Student advocacy gp.
24 Ruckus
25 Shake things up
27 Key of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto
28 Horseshoe holder
30 Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs
34 Kingston Trio hit with the lyric “Fight the fare increase!”
35 Letter enhancement
38 Go __ smoke
39 End that may be untimely
40 End-of-week exclamation
44 Midori on the ice
45 Bouncy ride, to say the least
46 Arab bigwigs
48 Bit of tomfoolery
49 Rollicking good time
50 Prom night coifs
51 Dickens bad guy
56 River in western Belgium
58 Org. for pugilists
59 They, in Tours
60 “Suppose ... “61 Play for a fool
62 Some MIT grads