LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big drink of water

5 Choice

9 Pesky crawler

14 Like most eggs

15 Making people wait, maybe

16 Wolf pack leader

17 Self-named 2000s sitcom set in Texas

18 Somewhat

19 Landlocked Asian country

20 Good-looking

23 Awesome, in slang

24 Chinese toy

25 Works a wedding

27 Prince in a can?

30 Classic film involving a split personality

32 Chow __

33 Wind heard in Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John”

35 “The Metamorphosis” author

38 Bag or ball lead-in

39 Vegas loser, often

41 Early 11th-century year

42 Couldn’t say no

44 Help to withdraw

45 Many a gospel song

46 Run-scoring out

48 Lao-tzu follower

50 “Peer Gynt Suite” dancer

52 Put on

53 Rainbow mnemonic surname

54 Payback phrase altered to provide a hint to solving four other puzzle answers

60 Jennyanydots’ creator

62 Farm house

63 “The Favourite” actress Stone

64 The “A” in CDA, to an Idahoan

65 Automaker Ferrari

66 Verbal quirks, like “y’know”

67 Coolidge’s VP

68 Texter’s sign-off 69 “Right now!”

DOWN

1 2000 presidential runner-up

2 Pigmented eye layer

3 Some yellow dogs

4 New parent’s purchase

5 Mr. Krabs’ nemesis

6 Dunkin’ Donuts offering

7 U.S. territory until 1896

8 Ancient Persian

9 Pillages

10 Cry after un gol

11 Affectionate idiom that originally referred to a pupil

12 Committee leader

13 Stops

21 Above, to a bard

22 Like some stares

26 Lil Wayne’s “__ Carter III”

27 Asian nurse

28 Princess from Alderaan

29 Perch perspective

30 Stir

31 “I __ red door and I want it painted black”: Stones

34 Cry buckets

36 Basinger and Cattrall

37 “If it __ broke … ”

39 Ancient dialogues subject

40 Worldwide anticrime group

43 Ankle pic

45 Charlotte NBA team

47 Autograph seeker

49 Duracell size

50 Draw __ on: aim at

51 Wafer brand

52 Light-headed

55 Very cool rapper?

56 Type of type

57 Radiate

58 Disco hit with arm motions

59 Towards sunrise

61 Phone button with

no letters