LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Flowerbox place
5 Hubbub
9 Use a 26-Down
14 Nabisco cookie
15 Gallant one
16 Wonder Woman’s rope
17 *Ray Winstone/ Ben Kingsley crime drama
19 “Touch of Evil” director Welles
20 Some remote batteries
21 Bacon pieces
22 *Period of anxiety that may be brought on by facing one’s mortality
27 Apartment, say
28 “You __ to be there”
29 Put away
32 Some DVD players
34 Assessed, with “up”
36 Actor Vigoda
37 Vampire vaporizer
38 Fashionable, or an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues
40 Not gross
41 Examine critically
42 Waffle
43 First few pages of many books
45 Feudal laborer
47 Neither’s partner
48 Japanese noodle
49 *Folded missile in a classroom
54 Parking spots
56 “Agreed!”
57 Eagle’s perch
58 *Spot to store valuables when traveling 63 Pertaining to birth
64 Disney snowman
65 “__ go bragh!”
66 Do up, as hair
67 Guitar tuners
68 Lean (toward)
DOWN
1 “Help!” letters 2 Anger
3 Supervillain Luthor who co-founded the Injustice League
4 Faithfulness
5 Bundle of harvested grain
6 Poke fun at
7 Org. with many auditors
8 Spoil
9 Casino machines
10 Vice president Kamala
11 Prosecutor’s deputy, for short
12 Initials on a brandy bottle
13 Ages upon ages
18 “Wow at first sip” brand
21 Allied (with)
22 Dishevels, as hair
23 Senator for whom Honolulu’s airport is named
24 Occasion to use the good china
25 Fire-breathing Greek monster
26 Stubble remover
30 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” king
31 Slobbery kiss
33 Watched
34 Really relish
35 “Agnus __”
39 Features of a bowling alley
44 Mathematical void symbolized by { }
46 Treatment that may involve a peel
50 “Nope” writer/ director Jordan
51 Luggage label
52 Hangouts for some schools?
53 Friend
54 Without
55 Organic fuel
58 Short jump
59 Copa Mundial cheer
60 What “will be” will be
61 Sign of a shark
62 Goal