LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Former Yankee slugger, familiarly

5 Barrel of laughs 9 “Joy of

Cooking” writer Rombauer 13 Take away 15 Skeleton prefix 16 Is sorry about 17 *Chilled caffeinated drink

19 __-lock brakes 20 Pt. of HDTV 21 __ facto 22 “Moby-Dick”

ship

24 Slim woodwind 26 Not well

27 “Star Wars”

pilot Dameron 28 *Cold War

barrier 32 Blueprints 33 Orderly 34 Comply with 38 Frying liquids 39 Holy book 40 Small valley 41 Ward on “FBI” 42 Brazilian berry 43 Medicinal units 44 *Close-knit,

influential group 47 Legal org. 50 Lummox 51 Peters out 52 Tearjerker featuring Anna Chlumsky in her feature-film debut 54 Ceramics oven 56 “__ the season ... ” 59 Radar screen

spot

60 *English name of a West African republic 63 Refrain syllables 64 Majorino of

“Veronica Mars” 65 Cosmetician

Lauder 66 Meadow moms 67 Affirmative votes 68 Pass (through)

slowly

DOWN

1 In the thick of 2 Risotto grain 3 Part of the Three Musketeers’ credo

4 Lemon

5 NFL officials 6 The 411

7 “__ of Girls’ Things”: poem by

Sharon Olds 8 Metal tab that

protects a shoe 9 Baghdad’s

country 10 Accumulate, as

charges

11 “Same here!” 12 “All kidding __

... ” 14 Descendants 18 Oil cartel

acronym 23 “Riverdale” actor

Goree

25 Tiny potted tree 26 Slanted, as a

typeface

28 1970s tennis star

Nastase 29 Worldwide

humanitarian gp. 30 Concretereinforcing rod 31 “Sorry, can’t help

ya”

32 Spots to buy

stamps: Abbr. 35 Mid-American Conference university in Indiana 36 Actress Fanning 37 “Of course!” 39 Triteness 43 Royal son

45 Fin. neighbor 46 In a lazy way 47 Saunter 48 Internal regulation for a club

49 Nimble 53 Hoppy brews,

briefly

54 Beer company

based in Hawaii 55 Some nest eggs,

for short 57 Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues 58 Dance move 61 “C’est la __!” 62 CIA predecessor