L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Striped pet

6 “_ _ chic!”

10 Gear tooth

13Sprightly

14 Bridge predecessor

15 Back on a ship

16 *Research without

direct application

18 Spending power, for

short

19 “No Ordinary Love”

singer

20 Eleven digits?

21 Treadmill setting

23*Czechoslovakian

movement of 1968

27 Yuletide song

28 33-Across years

29 Paper or plastic

30 Father of the Muses

33 Score half

34 *Helpline offering

38 “I see,” at sea

39 Noodle nugget

40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s _ _”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema

41 Policy of some

restaurants

44 “An Caighde‡n

Oifigioeil” language

45 *Commerce imbalance

49 Recycle bin, e.g. 50Shades

51 Becomes compost

55“Gross!”

56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue?

59 Baseball great Ripken

60 Comes up against

61 Isaac of “Moon Knight”

62 U-turn from WSW

63 Response heard during

a pool game

64Pier

DOWN 1Spigots

2 R’o flower

3 _ _ of paradise

4 Cover up, in a way

5[Nod]

6 Org. with 27 member

states

7 Salon procedure

8 Key to going back?

9 Grassy expanse

10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter”

11 Those at fault

12 Classic Pontiac muscle

car

14Annex

17 Anthracite or lignite 22 _ _ de Triomphe

24 Nevada city about 100

25

miles from Burning Man

The Aztecs of the NCAA’s Mountain West Conf.

26Bloke

27 Center of a 3-4 football

defense

29 Spanish dialect in the

Big Apple

30 Character debuted by

Zadie Smith?

31 Poetic preposition

32 Can. neighbor

34 “You _ _ be serious”

35 Leave out

36 Home of many

Quechua speakers

37 Means to an end?

42 Final words of an

engagement

43 Top removed before

dashing off?

44Conditional

programming word

46 Mover’s rental

47Cost

48 Identifies (as)

52 Largest member of the

dolphin family

53 Leader in the Bulgarian

Empire

54 Feudal laborer

55 Diamonds, in slang

57 “Last Week Tonight”

network

58 “Bam!” kin