LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Skedaddled

5 Spontaneous

notion

9 Leveled, as a

building

14 Tahoe or Titicaca 15 Role model

16 Bakery emanation 17 Auto on-off baking

gadget

19 Like a legally

binding contract 20 Volkswagen sedan 21 Bring to life, as

cartoons

23 Opposite of WSW 24 Golfer Aoki

25 Tongue twister

seashell seller

28 Artisan who makes delicate items

34 Locate precisely 36 “You win”

37 Fascinated by

38 Prefix with centric 41 Deco artist Romain de Tirtoff’s pseudonym

42 Plant swelling

44 Tutored

46 Exact repetition of

what was said

49 “You bet!”

50 Sorority T’s

51 Shoo-__: easy

winners

53 Indonesia’s capital 57 Idaho product 61 Banish

62 Three-goals-inone-game hockey scoring feats … or what the ends of 17-, 28- and 46Across are when they’re rearranged?

65 Perry of fashion 66 Buckeye State

67 Latticework piece 68 Hits with

snowballs

69 Checkers or chess 70 Crossword-solving

Simpson

DOWN

1 Broadway bomb

2 Volcano flow

3 __ out a living:

barely manages

4 Thick, as fog

5 “Little” fib

6 Skirt’s edge

7 Wrath

8 Boggy tract

9 Stuffed pasta

pockets

10 Composer

Khachaturian

11 “Nana” novelist

mile

12 Give off

13 Florida’s Miami-__

County

18 Dance that “takes

two”

22 Capture

24 __ of Panama:

narrow landform 25 Went undercover 26 Language of India 27 Key in

29 Colony crawler 30 Butter substitute 31 Fret

32 Makeup mogul

Lauder

33 Clarinets and

oboes

35 Apple or pear

39 Prefix with natal

or -phyte

40 How ballerinas

often dance

43 Monroe or Taylor 45 Pavarotti, vocally 47 Pic on a pec, say 48 Clam used in

chowder

52 “In the __ of the Night”: doo-wop classic

53 Cherokee

automaker

54 Wheel shaft

55 While away, as

time

56 Landed

58 Antioxidant-rich

berry

59 Sign on a B’way

booth

60 Fed. workplace

monitor

63 “Bingo!”

64 Apple CEO Cook