LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Symbol in the center of

Cameroon’s flag

5 Sentence server 11 Retro-hip beers,

for short

15 Quaint sigh

16 “Mad About You”

co-star 17 Baseball analyst

Hershiser

18 Nana who deciphers coded

messages? 20 Finger food, in

Zaragoza 21 Colleague of Amy

and Elena 22 Novelist Jaffe

23 Showbiz grand

slam

24 Skirmish between rival

hives?

28 Used a rocker 29 Black Sea resort 30 Functions 34 ESPNU topic 37 Boot camp

barker

40 Serious business, and a hint to four answers in this

puzzle

44 “The Masked Dancer” panelist Paula

45 Serious locks 46 Name in a

Salinger title 47 The planets, e.g.

50 Masked caller 52 Horses now tame

enough to ride?

58 Smack

59 Evian et Perrier 60 Like some

Windows errors 62 Best Picture Oscar winner directed by Siân Heder

63 Speck of dust atop the

Matterhorn? 66 Big name in skin

care

67 Coffee cup

insulator 68 Consequently 69 Snafu

70 Shadow canvas 71 Org. scheme

DOWN

1 Gives a little

2 Pulsate strongly

3 Maker of the first

refrigerator with a

dry-erase door 4 Mail payment 5 Like some vbs. 6 PBS benefactor 7 Smaller than

small

8 Request from 9 Smaller than

small

10 Collected goofs 11 Sovereign

12 Self-promoters 13 Bank actions,

briefly

14 Crate piece 19 Pets who may

squeeze into

shoeboxes 25 Lana of Smallville

26 Mark for good

27 “Casablanca”

role

30 Telemundo article 31 Blubber 32 Cadillacs manufactured for 50 years

33 They often hang

around kitchens 35 Point 36 Santa __ winds 38 Bit of finery 39 Palindrome in

stanzas

41 Sephora rival

42 Veld grazers

43 __ pad 48 Relaxed 49 Pickup truck with

four rear wheels

51 “Hah, right!”

52 Mulled wine

spice 53 Karachi

currency 54 Run out 55 Heckles 56 Like wool, for

many

57 Lore

58 Grifter’s game 61 Temporarily

provided 64 Prefix for the

birds?

65 Rare color?