LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spec. for tires

4 Alphabetical lunch

7 Show stoppers

10 PC component

13 Close to a delivery

15 Searches, like a pig does for truffles

17 Attending

18 Starts up again

19 *Failed-delivery words

21 Perfect spot

22 Lease alternative

23 Bond, say

26 Home of Triple-A

baseball’s Rainiers

32 Order to leave

35 Eyeroll inducer,

perhaps, briefly

36 Not seen as much

37 *Arrives back at square one

41 Worship

42 Dubai’s fed.

43 Information

44 Diddles (around)

46 __ opposite

48 Granola bit

50 Folk tail?

53 *Bamboozled … and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be?

60 Incredulous response to an unexpected revelation

61 Oxford campus

63 Blow off some steam, maybe?

64 Many a door opening

65 Neruda wrote one to “things”

66 Many a golfer’s aim

67 Naval initials

68 46-yr.-old satire

DOWN

1 Wilbur of “Charlotte’s Web,” e.g.

2 It might keep you up

3 “Fine, you got me”

4 Many air rifles

5 Trilogy with hobbits: Abbr.

6 1982 sci-fi film set in a computer

7 Common keyboard symbol

8 “It __ add up”

9 Iced tea brand named for a Florida neighborhood

10 Lump

11 Best on drums

12 Cold War initials

14 Predators named for their prey

16 Overwhelming homework amount

20 Equal, as a sum

24 Beach lotion meas.

25 School URL ending

27 NFL’s Cardinals, on

scoreboards

28 Bridge locales

29 Penguin predator

30 Tuna __

31 Geometry figure

32 Bit of trickery

33 JavaScript lines, say

34 “Famous” cookie guy

38 “Get the picture?”

39 Asian language

40 Road Runner frame

45 Beethoven’s “Waldstein,” e.g.

47 Where to see strikes but not strikeouts

49 Subsequently

51 Stirs up

52 One of three companies in the Seiko Group

53 This clue has on

54 Rain protection

55 “No shirt, no shoes, no service,” e.g.

56 Symbol of wisdom

57 Demolish

58 Amazon Fire TV Stick alternative

59 Brew choices

62 MLB’s Cardinals, on scoreboards