L.A TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 False earnestness
6 Sawbuck halves
10 “Pencils down”
14 World capital once called
Thang Long
15 Zoom
16 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
17 Bonus feature
18 Sea creature who lived across the Strait of Messina from Scylla
20 Like good things happening to good people
22 Not obviously true
23 Objects for separating
subjects
25 Staffer
26 Norman Lear's
specialty
30 Establish anew, as
authority
34 Sandwich cookie
35 End of a professor's
address
36 Seafood appetizer often
seasoned with Old Bay
40 Heat quickly
41 Mattress option
43 Some “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” characters
45 Onset of 49 Isolated group of
employees
50 Land of giants in
“Gulliver's Travels”
54 Person experiencing the
bystander effect, perhaps
57 Heroic sister of children's
literature
59 Rodentlike features, and a phonetic hint to a segment of 18-, 23-, 36-, and 50-Across
61 Ticked off
62 Check status
63 Cozy retreat
64 Truly stuck
65 Home of Lucas Oil
Stadium, familiarly
66 Socal school
67 Snail trail
DOWN
1 Literary citation abbr.
2 Cross with
3 “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” Oscar nominee Day
4 irobot products
5 Bygone audio format
6 Character's beginning,
middle, and end
7 Faith founded in Persia
8 Paperless Post offerings
9 Pianist Rachmaninoff
10 Hot sauce from Louisiana 11 Website with a
Starmeter
12 Vote by __
13 Otherwise
19 Circular shelter
21 Beer alternative
24 Designer Wang
27 Short-cut pasta
28 Beer alternative
29 Soaks (up)
30 Penalizing sorts, for
short
31 Trade unions for onions?
32 Vibe
33 Brief “Not sure yet”
37 Comedian Lydic
38 Chatting on Slack, for
short
39 Voyagers of 1620
42 Victim in Clue
44 Sister of Regan and
Cordelia
46 “Iliad” city
47 Arcade currency
48 Did as instructed
51 Shift, for one
52 Arcade pioneer
53 Phrase beginning a chase
scene, maybe
54 Slangy “Duh”
55 Club light
56 Put down
58 Journo's intro
60 “The Simpsons” disco
guy