LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Aussie birds with drumbeat-like mating calls

5 Get in a row

10 Regarding

14 Lucy Lawless title role

15 “Take a look”

16 Hit the brakes

17 Once-common

childhood ailment

19 Nomadic quarters

20 Giant whose #4 was retired

21 Rock’s Pop

22 Figures of speech

24 Saffron-flavored Spanish dish

26 Embellish

27 Reporting live

30 The eastern half of a frozen food brand

33 Writers’ workplaces

36 Move, in realty ads

37 Anjou, e.g.

38 24-Across ingredient

39 Garson of “Mrs. Miniver”

40 Summit

41 A lot of time, in Spain

42 Wild party

43 Speculate

44 Corporate VIP

45 Hereditary information for a species 47 Having glass sections

49 Incan wool sources

53 Race with no real losers

55 Cruising the Arctic, say

57 Fish served in poke

58 Butter substitute

59 Five-pointed stars ... or, in two words, what the sets of circles represent?

62 Family nicknames

63 Tribal leader

64 Maine, to Macron

65 The Dead Sea, actually

66 Cordial dealings

67 “I did it!”

DOWN

1 Many a bodyguard

2 Maestro Zubin

3 Make one out of many

4 __ fly: RBI producer

5 What separates the men from the boys?

6 Like the mind’s “i”

7 Guessing game 8 Former Prizm maker

9 Living very close by

10 Big name in furs

11 Blended family relative

12 Vocal quality 13 Gets involved, with “in”

18 Potters’ needs

23 Oscar-winning director Howard

25 YouTube clicks

26 Like Van Winkle, for

20 years

28 Trip to the market, say

29 “Still Me” memoirist

31 Water containers?

32 Greek war god

33 Storied bloodsucker, for short

34 Mozart’s “__ Kleine Nachtmusik”

35 Somewhat revealing T-shirt option

37 Journalist Zahn

39 Pot pie veggie

43 __ Heights: Mideast region

45 Wildebeest

46 Cate with a falsely

accused cow

48 Sprang up

50 Island near Sicily

51 Winning

52 Slangy sibling

53 Ump’s call

54 Forearm bone

55 The Beatles’ “__ Love Her”

56 Editor’s “Let it be”

60 Title tree in six horror films

61 Understand