L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Andre with eight Grand

Slam wins

7 Russell of “The

Americans”

11 Indian state in the

Western Ghats

14 Lanai furniture material 15 “You said it!”

16 Furthermore

17 Make Todd stay home after a “Meet the Press” blooper?

19 Untruth

20 Large planter

21 Barnacle spot

22 Hoofbeat sound

23 “Breath, __, Memory”:

Edwidge Danticat novel 25 Refuse to let Wood exhibit “American Gothic”?

29 LEGO buys

31 Long-necked waders

32 Iberian peninsula country 35 Bigelow or DuVernay

37 “__ we meet again”

38 Make Garfunkel pay for breaking a recording contract?

41 Regret

42 Hands over

44 Luxor's country 46 Folklore monsters

47 Lavish party

49 Donate twice as much as

Gates?

51 Family nickname

55 MLB stat

56 Retain

58 Filing aid

59 “You got it”

60 Maneuver Phillips into telling how he got the “Dateline NBC” job?

64 “Mangia!”

65 “Motor Trend” topic

66 Pad of paper

67 Med. caregivers

68 Cook up

69 Uses delaying tactics

DOWN

1 Quarrel

2 “Lincoln at Gettysburg”

Pulitzer winner Wills

3 Square things

4 Disco __ of “The

Simpsons”

5 Went to the bottom

6 Behind, so to speak

7 “The Two Fridas” painter 8 Bird that won't fly away 9 __ room

10 HP product

11 Valor 12 Bowlful often topped with

melted Gruyère

13 Skilled (at)

18 Animator's sheets

22 Gator kin

24 Need a lift, maybe

26 __ seed pudding

27 Golden State Warriors

coach Steve

28 Storybook sister

30 Completely

32 Sault __ Marie

33 Speckled legume

34 Humanitarians

35 __ Plaines, Illinois

36 Jobless, in a way: Abbr. 39 Archipelago part

40 Govt. crash investigator 43 Steals from

45 Opening

47 High spirits

48 Phone notifications

49 Laundry appliance

50 “No need to remind me” 52 Ring-shaped reef

53 Group of jurors

54 Helps in a heist

57 Jr. challenge

60 Pinot alternative

61 Sharing word

62 GPS display

63 Scheduling abbr.