L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Informant

4 MGM part

9 Labor leader Chavez 14 Goof 15 Sprinter Bolt

16 Enough

17 Leg muscle of a mathlete? 19 Stacked

20 “Don't you agree?,”

informally

21 Darn things 23 However, poetically 24 Game requiring plug-ins?

27 Idle talk

30 International gas brand 31 Fruity pastry made by a movie boxer? 33 Source of a low blow?

34 “History of the World,

Part II” actress/writer Wanda 35 Pub pour for an enlisted

soldier?

39 Like part of some fusion cuisine 41 Semisoft cheese 42 Vacation for a stand-up

performer?

45 Shirt part with a button 49 Tip 50 ESPN Deportes language 52 Small bill

53 Crossed (out)

55 __ board

56 Pegasus pair

59 Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle

62 First name in cosmetics 63 Netflix crime drama set

in Missouri

64 Self-regard

65 River in a van Gogh

painting

66 Event of passing interest? 67 Silent approval

DOWN

1 Ruling period

2 Entertainment centers?

3 Directions

4 “You honestly need me to

do that?”

5 Letters on some office

suite doors

6 Sigma follower

7 Narrow inlets

8 Next

9 Indie rockers Death __ for

Cutie

10 Cassowary cousin 11 Classic bit of slapstick

12 “Everyone's accounted

for”

13 Fires back, in a way

18 K, in the NATO alphabet 22 Frequent question from a

toddler

25 British dude

26 Buckwheat noodle

28 Indian state near Bhutan 29 Brief sign-off

32 Cover the spread?

33 Hint of color

35 Olive stuffing

36 Cloudburst

37 Singer Brickell

38 Drains

39 Household outlet output 40 “In a few”

43 __ ed

44 Shiver

45 Hunting garb

46 Bumpy

47 Precede

48 Casting option

51 Annoying

54 Nap

57 Mil. title

58 Match, in poker

60 Kilmer of film

61 Cy Young stat