LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Name in Cold War news

5 Lampoon

11 Ones presenting acts

14 “Hard __!”: captain’s order

15 Ended an engagement, in a way

16 Larter of “Resident Evil” films

17 “Back to the Future”?

19 Gym unit

20 What a choir may sing in

21 Bhopal locale

23 Tablelands

24 Tacks on

27 The last Mrs. Chaplin

29 “March of the Penguins”?

32 Brazil map word

35 Butler’s last word

36 “Groovy!”

37 Some pitches

40 Evasive tactic

41 “We’re live!” studio sign

42 Limo destination

45 Performs a Halloween prank, briefly

46 “Titanic”?

50 Warehouse

51 Sleep and Comfort

52 Spiral-horned antelope

56 Bear genus

58 “Out of Africa,” for one

59 Vince’s agent in “Entourage”

60 “Star Wars”?

64 Prepare to drive, with “up”

65 “Gracias” reply

66 66 and others: Abbr.

67 Pair of gallons?

68 Play areas

69 Listening devices

DOWN

1 Stride pianist Art

2 Classic Dior style

3 Weigh station line-up

4 Vacillate

5 Gone out with

6 “__ in”: “Jeopardy James” bet

7 Pirouette pivot point

8 Draft choice

9 Stand up to

10 Prime real estate?

11 Racing game with Yoshi and Bowser

12 “Don’t leave a mess”

13 Modest intake

18 Actress Salazar of “Maze Runner” movies

22 Allotted

24 Abbr. between names, perhaps

25 Lower

26 Pride’s place

28 Very long time 30 Mormon letters

31 Gothic fiction pioneer Radcliffe

32 Barges and such

33 In the buff

34 Private chapels

38 Lookout offerings

39 Blunder

40 Ostrich relative

42 Write

43 Commanded

44 NHL tiebreakers

47 Price partner

48 Coral __

49 “Get Shorty” novelist __ Leonard

53 Blood line

54 Like sunny weather, vis-à-vis rainy

55 Toggery

57 Food stamp?

58 Degs. for playwrights

59 Eroded, with “into”

61 Low digit

62 Pallid

63 “Ghost” psychic

__ Mae Brown