LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flying fox, e.g.

4 Has the flu, say

8 Seed on a bagel 14 All Hallows’ __

15 Halt

16 More silly

17 *Carrier with a

Beijing Capital hub 19 Unemotionally,

after “in”

20 Reid of “The Big

Lebowski”

21 Feudal peasant

23 “The Travels of Marco Polo” setting

24 “Without delay!” 25 *One barely

awake

28 “Excusez-__!”

29 Nondairy milk

ingredient

30 Whopper

31 Automne

preceder

32 Banks nicknamed

“Mr. Cub”

34 Toxic but fragrant

shrub

36 *Keurig Dr Pepper

brand since 2008 39 Crude conduit

42 Training line

46 Sean Lennon’s

mom

47 Jodie Foster, in

college

48 __ pride

50 Teensy

51 *Nutritious intake 54 Prefix with tasse 55 Adjust for pitch 56 Rank above

viscount

57 “Like that’ll

happen”

58 Black __: scary

spiders

61 Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do?

63 Ain’t using proper

language?

64 Tommie of the

Miracle Mets

65 Deface

66 Biblical escape

obstacle

67 Crammer’s

concern

68 Triage ctrs.

DOWN

1 “I haven’t the

foggiest”

2 Sunglasses style

3 Part of ATV

4 __-blond: grayish

shade

5 Formal affirmation 6 Needing company 7 Bowler’s pickup

8 One in the fam

9 Strep-treating doc 10 Emmy-winner

actress Paulson 11 Ouzo flavoring

12 Help to settle

13 Modern library? 18 Litter box user 22 Dude

26 Like a noted piper 27 How some taxes

are paid

29 Undercoat

33 Crushed __

34 Dedicated poem 35 Science guy Bill 37 Khartoum’s river 38 Japanese art

genre

39 Like boomers’

birthdays

40 Ask

41 Throbbed, like

one’s heart

43 Really cool

44 Advanced college

course

45 Some young

bovines

48 Usually unheated

home part

49 They’re on your

side

52 Long stretches 53 Really bother

54 Tiny bit

59 Misfortune

60 Greyhound

destination: Abbr. 62 Give permission

to