LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lots of bucks 5 Bird’s crop 9 Small amounts 13 Folklore brute 14 Fissile rock 15 Some cold drafts 16 “This week has gone on long enough!” letters 17 Estate home 18 Jedi Master voiced by Frank Oz 19 *Particularly memorable event

22 __ Speedwagon 23 Reindeer reins

holder

24 Beats, as an

incumbent 28 Stand

32 *Party topper 34 Lighthearted 35 One-named “Chandelier” singer

36 Moles, maybe 39 English cuppa 40 Send packing 43 *1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, e.g. 46 Sinews

49 Most miserly 50 Barbecue

briquettes 52 Pipe plastic 53 Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue 58 Disdainful

chorus

59 Fiction or

nonfiction 60 Prom attire

62 Besides

63 Fiji alternative 64 Menu heading

often next to File 65 Ink spots? 66 Leader with a

.edu address 67 “A Suitable Boy”

novelist Vikram

DOWN

1 Small point 2 French Toaster

Sticks brand 3 “Blue Bloods” daughter played by Bridget Moynahan 4 Judo official 5 Arctic trout 6 Diatribes 7 Warm welcomes 8 “If you __ you, then we’d all be a bit less we”: wisdom from Piglet 9 Afternoon sports

event 10 Household

succulent 11 Garden areas 12 Fed. benefits

provider

14 Irons (out) 20 Phobia

21 Bit with

neutrinos

24 Beat, as a favored

incumbent 25 Unsophisticated 26 Much of Iberia 27 Plant juice 29 Kevin McHale’s

“Glee” role 30 Peppery salad

green

31 Omni rival 33 Spanish aunt 37 Sound of

hesitation 38 Colbert of latenight

41 Jewel boxes 42 Multiple-cel

creature?

44 Give birth to 45 Confines, as a pet

bird

47 Kept bothering 48 LP cover 51 Justice

Sotomayor 53 Cuba libre mixer 54 Large number 55 Hall of Fame quarterback Tarkenton 56 Needled

57 Silly goose 58 “After Happily Ever After” cable channel

61 To the __ degree