CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Big __, California

4 Photographer’s

directive

9 Medicare section for doctors’ services

14 Functionality

15 Hauled away

16 China from Japan

17 Cowed, aptly

19 To help, to Henri 20 “House” star

Hugh

21 “I can’t think straight right now”

23 “Rocketman”

John

24 “It’s obvious”

26 Baba in a cave

27 “The Waste Land”

poet’s monogram 28 Fed. law known as

Obamacare

29 Hamper

32 Industry honcho 34 High times?

35 Honestly ... also, like each set of circles?

39 Cubs’ group

40 Between dry and

soggy

41 Like library books 43 IRS examiner

44 “Don’t say

anything!”

47 Always, to a poet 48 Amazon

transports

50 “Caveman” diet 52 Wok dish

55 Fire alarms

56 Bulgaria’s capital 57 Bob Marley’s

religion 60 Looked at the

wrong way?

61 No longer on

one’s plate

62 Red choice, briefly 63 Yule melodies

64 Tell

65 ER graph

DOWN

1 Rent from a renter 2 Regular requests 3 Prove wrong

4 Ink blot, for one

5 Espionage figure 6 “Letters from __ Jima”: Eastwood film

7 “To Kill a Mockingbird” author

8 Money in music 9 “La Vie en Rose”

chanteuse

10 “The Kite Runner”

boy

11 Home heater or

engine cooler

12 Forest perimeter 13 They’re below par 18 To’s opposite

22 “I could take it or

leave it”

24 Desktop image 25 Folklore sleep aid 28 Coach Parseghian 30 Burden

31 Bearded critter 32 __ one’s time: wait 33 Neighborhood

35 Off the hook

36 Pellet gun, for one 37 __-chef 38 Four times a day,

in an Rx

39 Fake, as some

nails

42 TV recording

device

44 Raunchiness

45 Playwright Ibsen 46 Cleaning, as a

driveway

49 Lew who played

Dr. Kildare

50 It has keys for

flats

51 Chow request 53 Cambodian

cash

54 In things

55 [Keep this clue] 58 Remote battery

size

59 Babe’s place