LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Activist Parks 5 First bird to attack in “The Birds” 9 “Qué __?” 13 Overly neat, say 14 IrishNewAger 15 Deep sleep 16 Amazon founder 18 2001 bankruptcy

headliner

19 Corn serving 20 Very focused, as

an athlete

22 “Of course!” 24 Some dadaist art 26 Voices one’s view 27 Scolds

29 Clear dirty dishes

from

30 HS promgoers 31 Tops of waves 32 Small batteries 33 Pleasing to look at ... or a phonetic hint to a twoletter sequence in 16-, 20-, 51- and 56-Across 39 Bashinto 40 Rapscallions 42 Soak (up), as

gravy

45 Halves of qts. 46 Look over again 47 Like Goldilocks’ first bowl of porridge

49 Send to the

canvas 50 Code-breaking org. 51 Expatriate American poet arrested for treason in 1945 53 Tiresome grind 55 Had a smoke 56 Aztec emperor 60 One-eyed “Futurama” character 61 Earnest request 62 Dog food brand 63 LAX landing list 64 Some 35mm

cameras 65 Open-handed hit

DOWN

1 Koothrappali on “The Big Bang Theory” 2 Common bill 3 Low-crime part of town

4 __ Romeo: sports

car

5 “Gosh!”

6 Opens, as a parka 7 Rhone cathedral

city

8 At the back of the

pack

9 Swindler with a scheme named for him 10 Cooks’ wear 11 Earlier 12 “Gunsmoke” actor James 15 Leaks slowly 17 Like an overtired child, perhaps 21 One may be hidden under a welcome mat 22 “Grey’s Anatomy” network

23 “__ goes nothing!”

25 Fall back on 28 Beast of burden 29 Scroogean scoff 32 20s dispenser 34 “Old Town Road” rapper Lil __ X 35 Cry after a stunning performance 36 Slangy assent 37 Happening later 38 Moments, briefly 41 Caribbean music 42 __ Artois: Belgian

beer

43 More slimy 44 Stout relative 45 Dad

46 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda

48 Lugs

49 Small hill 52 Baseball’s “men in

blue”

54 Guns from Israel 57 Univ. aides

58 UFC fighting style 59 Egyptian snake