LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Rigatoni or ziti
6 Poker stake
10 Sandwich known by its initials
13 Odysseus’ journey, for example
14 Sulk
15 “Now I __ me down … ”
16 Least wild
17 *Emulate Bonnie and Clyde
19 Birdbrains
20 Fab competitor
21 Fairy tale start
22 *Highly aware and ready to act
24 Does some programming
25 Airline to Israel
26 Dutch cheese town
28 Before now
31 Poe’s “Annabel __”
33 Threat-ending words
37 *Grasps an underlying meaning
41 Take for granted
42 Part of GPS: Abbr.
43 Carrot chomper’s “What’s up, __?”
44 Rice-A-__
46 Goes kaput, as an engine
49 University VIPs
52 *Kellogg’s cereal morsel
57 D.C. helper
58 Nevada gambling mecca
59 Senseless endeavor
60 Persuasive efforts using insincere flattery … and a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues
62 Hairpiece
63 Pre-1991 map letters
64 Slender woodwind
65 Prom corsage
66 Wide shoe sizes
67 “OMG” or “TTYL”
68 Hawke of “Boyhood”
DOWN
1 Shrimp relative
2 Fess up
3 Simmer with anger
4 Fez feature
5 PC key used in combinations
6 Month that may start with a gag
7 Noggin
8 You__: online video site
9 Zeta-theta link
10 Tasteless
11 Jousting weapon 12 Little ones
13 “The Simpsons” bus driver
18 Many a Gen Xer parent
20 Yarns
23 Whale’s food filtering system
24 Check the ID of
27 Wears out
28 Here, in Havana
29 Oxygen, e.g.
30 NFL tiebreakers
32 Mars residents, in sci-fi
34 It may be flipped
35 Bay Area hub inits.
36 And so on, briefly
38 Teen’s witching hour
39 Med. care plans
40 Electric starter?
45 Fridge of yore
47 Serious attempt
48 Posture issue
49 So last year
50 Washer cycle
51 Air freshener targets
53 Initial stage
54 Top dog
55 Fashion’s Anne or Calvin
56 Looked over
58 Spa cover-up
61 Write quickly
62 Digital water tester?