LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hyundai sedan 6 Meet in

competition 10 Maker of nonstick cookware 14 French red wine with a physician in its spelling 15 Black gem 16 Home for bees 17 *Party drink in a

bowl

19 Spring flower 20 Soft slip-on 21 “Très sexy!” 22 Source of some

tweets 23 Costumes 25 Spiral-horned

antelope 27 Approx. takeoff

hr.

28 Owner of the restaurant

NOLA

31 Biker’s stunt

bike, briefly 33 State with a three-word capital 37 Novelist Jong 38 Burlesque wrap 39 Carpenter’s accessory that might hold the ends of the answers to starred clues 41 Haul with effort 42 Kicking partner? 44 Lowly worker 45 Jolson and

Jarreau 46 Depends (on) 48 Space-saving

abbr.

50 “My Cousin

Vinny” star 52 Underground

chamber 55 Shed feathers 57 Earthy pigments 59 Verizon ISP 61 Israeli diplomat

Abba 62 *Software help

text

64 Actress Meyer of

“Dragonheart” 65 Gardner who created Perry Mason 66 Sampler’s sip 67 Apple topper 68 British mil.

honors 69 Villain’s look

DOWN

1 Car radio letters 2 State in which

astronauts float 3 Elicit

4 French monarch 5 Pantomime 6 Hoops offenses 7 Actress Gunn of

“Breaking Bad” 8 Rinse or spin 9 Breathe out 10 More like a wafer 11 *School evacuation exercise

12 Hertz rival

13 Out of concern

that

18 Hall & Oates or

Sonny & Cher 24 Second-largest

U.S. state

26 Rival co. of Visa 29 Post-op areas 30 Fall behind 31 Tree trunk 32 *Pre-WWII aircraft used for postal deliveries 34 T-shirt or polo 35 Brewery output 36 “Perry Mason”

network 38 35-Down seller 39 Golf ball

supports

40 Like challenging

push-ups 43 Mekong River

country

45 Royal flush card 47 Put points on the

board

49 Sports bar

fixtures

51 Cake finishers 52 Relinquishes

formally

53 Salary increase 54 Actor Nick 55 What docs

prescribe

56 Last bio 58 Saintly aura 60 Villain’s look 63 Breeze creator