LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Barbaric” cry in Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

5 Departed

9 Stockpile 14 Actress Falco 15 Thin batteries 16 “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” host Peter

17 *Busy stretch at a sandwich shop 19 Dish

20 Snuck a look 21 Clock readout 23 Shoe front 24 Verbalize 25 *Crumple, as notepaper filled with bad ideas

27 Lets off steam 29 Lightbulb unit 30 “Fiddlesticks!” 31 Brief “If you ask me”

32 Letter-shaped support

34 Provençal pal 36 *Fare that pairs well with beer 38 *Ticket marketplace with a FanProtect Guarantee 42 Farmyard oinker 43 Worrisome grades

44 Actress de

Armas

45 __ facto

48 “__ sesame!” 50 Otherwise 52 *Source of bribe money, perhaps 54 Scoundrel

55 Used to be 56 Natural hairstyle 57 Infomercial disclaimer

60 College application part 62 “I’m handing this off now,” and a phonetic description of the answers to the starred clues 64 Revise

65 __ as a pin 66 Watch over, as sheep

67 Odorless gas 68 Tacks on 69 Poems of praise

DOWN

1 [You stepped on my paw!]

2 For two voices, in music

3 Connoisseur who likely scoffs at boxed Merlot

4 Eat like a bird 5 Baker’s fat

6 __ de toilette 7 Tracy Chapman hit with the line “Won’t have to drive too far” 8 Summer top 9 Colorado ski resort

10 Prefix with practice

11 “Death on the Nile” novelist Christie

12 Stayed on the sidelines

13 Snoozes 18 Activation phrase for Apple’s digital assistant

22 Change genetically

25 DNA test kit item 26 High-sided bed 27 Big shot, briefly 28 Ostrich kin 33 “Scram!” 35 Broadway offering

37 Main mail ctrs. 38 Put in the mail 39 Like some smallbatch textiles 40 Card game with an American Girl version

41 Belfry critter 43 Stood for 45 “Cross my heart!”

46 Blood component 47 Figured (out) 49 Fancy Feast maker 51 “I __ see the humor here” 53 Composer known as the “Father of the Symphony” 57 Butter portions

58 Top of the line 59 Disappointing fireworks

61 “It’s __-win situation” 63 Glum