LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Danish director
von Trier
5 One of a
yardstick’s 36
9 “High waving heather __ stormy blasts bending”: E. Brontë
14 Actor Baldwin 15 Home of the
NFL’s Saints,
informally
16 Bert’s Muppet
buddy
17 Old Italian money
18 Do a guard’s job
20 Addis __ 22 Zagreb natives
23 Prevail in the race
(just barely) 25 Pitching stats 29 “Furthermore ... ” 30 Musical effect
involving two
quickly played repeated notes 31 Lasting emotional
injury
34 Llama relative 39 Jack Ryan org. 40 “Brace yourself” 43 QB’s concern
44 Food on the farm 45 Gas sign in green
letters
46 Laugh at a joke,
say
48 Big Aussie bird
50 Banks of
“America’s Next Top Model” 51 Peel out 58 Seaman’s “Help!” 60 Surname of
vintners Ernest
and Julio 61 Musical conductor ... and
what the end of
18-, 23-, 40- or
51-Across can be?
65 Hoarse voice 66 Disney’s Little
Mermaid
67 Miller __: beer 68 Soft French
cheese
69 First AFL-CIO
leader George __ 70 Unable to find the
way
71 Tourney ranking
DOWN
1 Calif. legal drama 2 Suspect’s out 3 Showed over 4 Sword sheath 5 __ and outs:
workings
6 Mountain gap 7 Santa __, Calif. 8 Vietnam’s capital 9 Small salamander 10 Solution for a
pencil error 11 Tiny six-legged
crawler
12 It can precede or
follow tac
13 Clever chuckle 19 __ es Salaam 21 Author Rand 24 Hersey’s “A Bell
for __”
26 Rolling in francs
27 “a.k.a.” name
28 Blind strips 30 Cross-shaped
letter
31 Metaphor in a big
gambling loss
32 __ Island, home
of the original
Nathan’s
33 “I do” site
35 Part of LLC: Abbr. 36 Group of whales
37 Vote of approval 38 Apple pie
maker’s device 41 Poet’s “many
times” 42 Tart-tasting
preserve veggies 47 Oriole Park at __
Yards
49 Coffee cup
51 “So long” 52 Arizona politics
family name
53 Car music
source
54 Nos in Novgorod
55 Play loudly, as a
53-Down 56 Commercial cow 57 Lured (in)
59 Friend
61 “Pow!” relative 62 “What __ the
odds?”
63 Vardalos or Long 64 IRA part: Abbr.