LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Floating platforms 6 Guy or fellow 10 Haughty sort 14 Creepy starer 15 Top military

draft category 16 Skid row denizen 17 German cars bought by Riyadh residents? 19 Not many 20 Releases (on), as

an attack dog 21 Cafeteria carriers gone missing? 23 QB’s mishap 24 Tennis icon

Arthur 25 Makes a choice 26 Drawing upon 28 100-yard race 30 Shoulder wrap 32 “Once __ a time

...” 34 PC software 38 Rose of baseball 39 Hard to hear 40 Was a

passenger 41 Figure skater’s

leap 42 Uncle Remus’s

__ Rabbit 43 Nursery-rhyme

Jack or his wife 44 Put down, as

floor tile 46 “__ my case” 48 Fixes with thread 50 Plastic coffee container designed for a Keurig brewer 51 Sports

enthusiast 54 Streamlined

onion relatives? 57 Pie à la __ 58 Basketball’s _ _ “The Pearl” Monroe 59 Stories you’ve heard a bajillion times? 61 Bad to the bone 62 Promgoer’s

concern 63 Leaning

somewhat 64 Lousy grades 65 Like so 66 Zappos.com

inventory DOWN 1 Big name in

vermouth 2 A second time 3 Vary irregularly,

as prices 4 Koppel and Knight 5 __ Lanka 6 Teeth-and-gums

protector 7 Conductor Previn 8 “Star Wars”

princess 9 “Piece of cake!” 10 Out-of-tune string

instruments? 11 Like Jack

43-Across’s diet 12 Does as directed 13 Curtain call acknowledgments 18 Part of YMCA:

Abbr. 22 How-__: instruction books 24 Feel lousy 27 Neato water

sources? 28 Insult comic who was a frequent Johnny Carson guest 29 Crumb-carrying

insect 30 Relaxation center 31 Put a curse on 33 Dessert with a

crust 35 Financial planner’s concern 36 Handheld computer, briefly 37 Go down in the

west 39 “The X-Files” gp. 43 Ninth mo. 45 Pop the question 47 Ploy 48 Work really hard 49 Spooky 50 Reeves of

“Speed” 52 Dancer Astaire 53 Homes for chicks 54 Future flower 55 J.D.-to-be’s

exam 56 __ A Sketch 57 Trig or calc 60 Prof.’s helpers