LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “More matter, with __ art”: “Hamlet”

5 Early music label

8 Indulgent places

12 Playwright Chekhov

14 See 15-Across

15 With 14-Across, deal-breaking words

16 Combined

17 Play area

18 Partially, informally

19 Take off

21 Gets an A+, say

23 Cut back, in a way

24 Spite

25 With 38-Across, what the highlighted squares suggest

29 Added things

32 Brief alarm

33 Parents can relax during them

37 “Enough!”

38 See 25-Across

40 Joanne of film

41 Daytona Beachbased sports org.

44 Bacon serving

47 With 49-Across, author of the novel suggested by this puzzle’s theme; the movie debuted 10/17/1956

49 See 47-Across

50 Bullish?

52 Validates

55 Quaint store sign word

56 Tapir feature

58 Campus figure

59 Try to expose

61 Sick

62 Prefix with meter

63 Dagger-shaped symbols

64 Bran type

65 Vary

66 Sneak, maybe

67 Natl. park sights

68 Disinfectant brand

DOWN

1 Scottish estate holder

2 Been-there-donethat feeling

3 Pit

4 Brahms piano trio

5 Optimistic

6 Prompt

7 Routing abbr.

8 In danger of flooding, as a river

9 Indian follower of Zoroastrianism

10 Bit of silliness

11 City-__

13 More of a surprise

15 NBA legend Thomas

20 Disturbance

22 Receipt fig.

26 It offered soldiers Hope: Abbr.

27 Fish-fowl link

28 Web transmission technology: Abbr.

29 An express might skip yours: Abbr.

30 Thurman on screen

31 Didn’t read right

34 Followers

35 Face front?

36 Face front?

38 Small songbirds

39 P&G detergent brand

42 Snake oil, purportedly

43 __ Ewoldt, first Asian-American to play Christine in Broadway’s “Phantom”

45 Boxer’s speech?

46 Dudley’s toon foe

48 __ moment

49 Events for Biles

50 Chore list items

51 Criminal defense

53 San __, Northern California city

54 Cur’s warning

57 Name of five Norwegian kings

60 Secure (to)

62 Sidekick