4/4/16 Answer LA Times Crossword

4/4/16
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1D
Quite competent
ADEPT

2D
Our Gang girl
DARLA

3D
Decorative foundation plant
SHRUB

4D
Consumer protection gp.
BBB

5D
Respect singer Franklin
ARETHA

6D
Upstream swimmer
SALMON

7D
Dutch bulb
TULIP

8D
Britannica, e.g.: Abbr.
ENC

9D
Wrapping, as an ankle
TAPING

10D
Rover’s collar attachment
ID TAG

11D
Melville’s obsessive whaler
AHAB

12D
Stir up
ROIL

13D
Clearasil target
ACNE

19D
Fly
AVIATE

21D
Flies like a seagull
GLIDES

25D
Sufficient, in poetry
ENOW

26D
Cattle poker
PROD

29D
Low poker hand
PAIR

30D
Quaint lodges
INNS

31D
Hebrides isle
SKYE

32D
Many emailed image files
PDFS

33D
Train wheel guide
RAIL

34D
Suit filer: Abbr.
ATTY

35D
..D#hallowed be __ name
THY

36D
Dictation takers
STENOS

38D
Accustomed (to)
INURED

39D
Small fruit pie
TART

40D
Four-way __
STOP

45D
Without prejudice
FAIRLY

46D
Big name in little trains
LIONEL

47D
What an editor’s caret indicates
INSERT

48D
Sincere entreaties
PLEAS

49D
Busybody
YENTA

50D
Dance in triple meter
WALTZ

51D
Wipe out
ERASE

52D
Mature, as fruit
RIPEN

53D
Desk light
LAMP

54D
Get an __ effort
E FOR

55D
Houston player, informally
‘STRO

59D
School-of-thought suffix
ISM

60D
Hosp. staffers
RNS

1C
Website pop-ups, e.g.
ADS

4C
Brush with liquid while roasting
BASTE

9C
Jeweled headwear
TIARA

14C
Morse code bit
DAH

15C
Electric razor brand
BRAUN

16C
Like some short-term committees
AD HOC

17C
Make a boo-boo
ERR

18C
Hotel lobby supervisor
BELL CAPTAIN (“dinner bell”)

20C
Bathtub insert
PLUG

22C
Texter’s “Wish you hadn’t said that!”
TMI

23C
Practical, as a solution
VIABLE

24C
Working the room, as at a banquet
TABLE-HOPPING (“dinner table”)

27C
Words before uproar
IN AN …

28C
Dipstick wiper
RAG

29C
Gumshoes: Abbr.
PIS

32C
Madrid museum
PRADO

35C
Little kid
TOT

36C
Went to the bottom
SANK

37C
Time of reckoning
DATE WITH DESTINY (“dinner date”)

41C
Is the right size
FITS

42C
Yea’s opposite
NAY

43C
Short, but probably not sweet
TERSE

44C
Sneaky
SLY

45C
Warm lining
FUR

46C
Feline king
LION

48C
Congressional majority, e.g.
PARTY IN POWER (“dinner party”)

53C
Nielsen of “The Naked Gun” films
LESLIE

56C
Canon SLR camera
EOS

57C
Indian wrap
SARI

58C
When one might have a mint … or where the first words of 18-, 24-, 37- and 48-Across can be found
AFTER DINNER

61C
Santa visitor’s seat
LAP

62C
Fable’s lesson
MORAL

63C
Rear, to an admiral
STERN

64C
Mao __-tung
TSE

65C
Unlike poetry
PROSY

66C
Blended ice cream drinks
MALTS

67C
Buddhist sect
ZEN