L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “The Giving Tree” author

Silverstein

5 Gravelly voiced sort

11 Top (out)

14 Ritzy

15 City on the Rio Grande

16 Flamenco dancer's cry

17 Org. mandating eyewash

stations

18 Canvassing technique

20 Animals in a herd

22 Face value

23 Org. with 132 Pulitzer

Prizes

24 Initiation rite

28 Tear up

29 Batter's stat

30 One hanging around in

the forest?

32 Give and take

36 “And fly, __ evil intercept

thy flight”: Milton

37 Title teacher in a James

Hilton novella

40 Kipling's “Follow Me __”

41 Insect dating from the

Jurassic era

43 Board, as a bus

44 Darling of baseball

45 Daughter of Cronus and

Rhea

48 Becomes clear

50 Digs

53 Stadium shout

54 Linked in a way illustrated by three pairs of puzzle answers

58 Hardwood with an edible

seed

59 After

61 '60s-'70s Pontiac

62 Venetian Renaissance

painter

63 Mystery-solving Wolfe

64 Virtual-city denizen

65 Strips in the freezer

66 Torah holders

DOWN

1 __-mo

2 Muzzle

3 What some Woodstock attendees eventually became

4 Seize eagerly

5 Go over again

6 Cockeyed

7 Table setting item

8 House disciplinarians

9 Impressive spread

10 One sharing quarters

11 Bullwinkle's last name

12 Sunburn applications

13 Boomers' kids

19 Breaks up with

21 Feature of some

eyeglasses

24 Pub order

25 Magician's opening

26 Camera type,

briefly

27 Espresso-based coffee

concoction

31 However, in poetry

33 Churchgoer, e.g.

34 Mine, in Amiens

35 “Mystic River” Oscar

winner Sean

38 Nanki-__

39 Capture

42 Graph lead-in

46 Social functions

47 “The front page of the

internet” website

49 Island big shot

50 Chicago Symphony conductor with 31 Grammys

51 Mouthed stadium

greeting

52 Narrow groove

54 Benders

55 Shipbuilding wood

56 Toms' counterparts

57 Questionable political spending

60 Apt. IDS