LA Times Daily Crossword December 26, 2019 Answers

1. [This is so frustrating!] 5. Ceiling 10. Mail often diverted to a separate folder 14. Sainted pope called "the Great" 15. Modern Persian 16. Celestial bear 17. Mosque bigwig 18. Daring move 20. Barnyard mom 21. Bath-loving Muppet 22. Priest's robe 23. KITT on "Knight Rider" 25. Hanging Gardens site 29. "You can tell me" 30. Inhabitants of a myrmecologist's farm 32. Big time 33. Thompson of "Thor: Ragnarok" 35. Getty and Rockefeller 38. Street moves since the '70s ... and what the black squares on rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do 40. Unfolds 42. Pertaining to the small intestine 43. Chest bone 44. Fling 46. Hardship 50. Judicial self-disqualification 53. Zoe of "Avatar" 55. Genetics lab material 56. Ragged 58. Floral garland 59. Three-flavor block 62. Mount Olympus group 63. "You Needed Me" singer Murray 64. REO Speedwagon guitarist Dave 65. One is often hard to resist 66. Site in a Steinbeck title 67. Network points 68. Financial aid criterion

1. Top celebrity groupings 2. Ride-hitching fish 3. "Scram!" 4. Word for a guy 5. Scales aloft 6. Facial apparatus in a Dumas novel 7. Neighbor of Mauritania 8. Behind on bills 9. Poetic contraction 10. Like a sourpuss 11. Math test parts 12. Inquire or require 13. Novelist Rita __ Brown 19. File folder feature 21. Prize 24. Explosion maker, briefly 26. Not separately 27. Mine find 28. A Bobbsey twin 31. Rock bottom 34. "Rizzoli & Isles" actress Alexander 36. Nickelodeon sitcom starring Miranda Cosgrove 37. Massenet opera about a Spanish hero 38. "Hogan's Heroes" star 39. Auto insurance giant 40. Cold call? 41. Fabrication 45. In the prior month 47. In great numbers 48. Stressed out 49. Elevated 51. Let loose, as hogs 52. __ Tomé and Príncipe 54. Chem. class data 57. Not very much 59. Rob Roy's refusal 60. Boundary 61. PC-to-PC hookup 62. Rev