LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Matriarch of the

Three Bears 5 Grocery

shopper’s aid 9 Private supply 14 “Right away”

letters

15 Mideast leader 16 Catchall option

on a survey

17 At a __ for words 18 Regarding

19 With 4-Down, small dog from Tibet

20 Bank customer,

e.g.

23 24 horas

24 Disco __ of “The

Simpsons”

25 Has lunch on a

blanket, say 28 Colorful and

fuzzy street art 31 More expansive 32 Southeast Asian

language 33 Mani-__: spa

treatments

35 “For sure” 36 Innovative

concept

40 Cat coat 43 Calf-length skirts 44 Raspberry shade 47 “The way things

are ... ” 49 Big-time letdown 53 Shares a tweet on

Instagram, say 55 Pull the plug on 56 Ode title words 57 “I’ll tell you the rest another time,” and what can be said about the starts of 20-, 28-, 36-, and 49-Across 60 Vietnam’s capital 62 Comfort

63 Shape of many a

car logo 64 Houston MLB

player 65 Squeezes (out) 66 How-to

presentation 67 Cereal eater’s

utensil 68 Hissed “Hey!” 69 Etch or sketch

DOWN

1 Affliction 2 Preferring to be

alone

3 Cosmetic applied

with a wand

4 See 19-Across 5 Makeshift shelter 6 “Haven’t the

foggiest” 7 Lightsaber wielders who are enemies of the Jedi 8 Scout unit selling

cookies 9 Unsolved crime 10 Home of the Acropolis and the Parthenon 11 Donation

recipient 12 Father and son 13 Time studied in

history class

21 PC connection

port

22 Really steamed 26 Average grade 27 Graduating gp. 29 Persona __ grata 30 Represent

inaccurately 34 Hands out 37 Something left

out

38 Photogenic

expanse 39 “Woof!”

40 Few and __

between 41 Function 42 Verbally attack 45 Dine at a friend’s 46 Elementary school shoebox project

48 “My Neighbor __”: Studio Ghibli film

50 Consume 51 Insured investments: Abbr.

52 “Stay out of

trouble” 54 Dream state 58 Thousand __: Ventura County city 59 Sondheim’s

“Sweeney __” 60 Gives birth to 61 Egyptian snake