L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rigatoni or ziti

6 Poker stake

10 Sandwich known by its initials

13 Odysseus' journey, for example

14 Sulk

15 “Now I __ me down ... ”

16 Least wild

17 *Emulate Bonnie and Clyde

19 Birdbrains

20 Fab competitor

21 Fairy tale start

22 *Highly aware and ready to act

24 Does some programming

25 Airline to Israel

26 Dutch cheese town

28 Before now

31 Poe's “Annabel __”

33 Threat-ending words

37 *Grasps an underlying meaning

41 Take for granted

42 Part of GPS: Abbr.

43 Carrot chomper's “What's up, __?”

44 Rice-A-__

46 Goes kaput, as an engine

49 University VIPs

52 *Kellogg's cereal morsel

57 D.C. helper

58 Nevada gambling mecca

59 Senseless endeavor

60 Persuasive efforts using insincere flattery ... and a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues

62 Hairpiece

63 Pre-1991 map letters

64 Slender woodwind

65 Prom corsage

66 Wide shoe sizes

67 “OMG” or “TTYL”

68 Hawke of “Boyhood”

DOWN

1 Shrimp relative

2 Fess up

3 Simmer with anger

4 Fez feature

5 PC key used in combinations

6 Month that may start with a gag

7 Noggin

8 You__: online video site

9 Zeta-theta link

10 Tasteless

11 Jousting weapon

12 Little ones

13 “The Simpsons” bus driver

18 Many a Gen Xer parent

20 Yarns

23 Whale's food-filtering system

24 Check the ID of

27 Wears out

28 Here, in Havana

29 Oxygen, e.g.

30 NFL tiebreakers

32 Mars residents, in sci-fi

34 It may be flipped

35 Bay Area hub inits.

36 And so on, briefly

38 Teen's witching hour

39 Med. care plans

40 Electric starter?

45 Fridge of yore

47 Serious attempt

48 Posture issue

49 So last year

50 Washer cycle

51 Air freshener targets

53 Initial stage

54 Top dog

55 Fashion's Anne or Calvin

56 Looked over

58 Spa cover-up

61 Write quickly

62 Digital water tester?