LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Golly!” 5 Infuriated with 10 Light on one’s

feet

14 “It’s __ you”:

“You decide” 15 Justice Kagan of the Supreme Court

16 Metals from a

mine 17 “Jeopardy!”

creator Griffin 18 Piccata

ingredient 19 Christmas song 20 “Focus on the

future now” 23 Top-notch

24 “__ you

listening?” 25 “Never in a

million years!” 31 Barely lit 34 Makes cursed 35 Some clip-on

accessories 36 Game with Skip and Reverse cards

37 “Need You

Tonight” band 38 Cover story 40 Pakistani

language 41 Theater sign on a

busy night 42 Shortly

43 “Delta of Venus”

author Nin 44 Family

45 Easy to set up, as

a computer 48 Deg. for an exec 50 Went by bike 51 Equestrian transport vehicles, and what the last words of 20-, 25-, and 45-Across can be

57 Desert in southern Mongolia 58 Clueless gamers 59 Go first 61 Surrounded by 62 Connecticut Ivy

Leaguer 63 Spanish “she” 64 Brazilian soccer

legend

65 Book of maps 66 Like purple hair

DOWN

1 Bubble blower’s

mouthful

2 Go first

3 Houston MLBer 4 Rush-hour traffic

conveniences 5 Christopher of “Law & Order: SVU”

6 Pub barrel

7 “Cool for the Summer” singer Lovato

8 “We don’t know who wrote this” abbreviation 9 Cranberry juice

quality

10 Sunken ship

finder

11 Many a TV crime

drama

12 Assault the nose 13 Fashion

monogram 21 Unwelcome word from a barber

22 Large coastal

inlets

25 Batter blender 26 “Three Bathers”

painter Matisse 27 S&P 100 company that’s a descendant of Standard Oil 28 On-the-job risk

for a beekeeper 29 White lie 30 Sweet-smelling

garland 32 Nepal neighbor 33 Hardly assertive 38 Email pioneer 39 Baseball Hall of

Famer Gehrig 40 Still having a

rind

42 Health resorts 43 Not incl. 46 Saudi __ 47 Beeps and peeps 49 Wedding

bouquet tosser 51 Base runner’s

goal

52 Irish New Age

singer 53 Precisely 54 Tootsie __ 55 Depend (on) 56 Cyber Monday

event 57 Generation __ 60 Family guy