Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Stay in the big
house
10 Beach pretender 15 [Yawn]
16 Many a Studio
Ghibli film 17 Fund for
incidentals 18 Character who dances on the beach at Stavros 19 Supporting 20 Evil skill
22 Talbot Jr. or Sr.
on “Rectify” 23 Obstacles on the
set
25 Confident response to “Your opponent is ready” 26 Funeral rite heap 27 Poet Thomas 29 “Baby Blues”
baby 30 Maranjab Desert
country
31 Empty out
badly? 33 Repertoire 35 Skeleton’s
place?
38 Do maintenance on, as a putting green
39 Card carrier 41 Convene
42 Chill (with) 43 Kate of “House
of Cards” 45 Grouses 49 Welding sparks 50 Better
52 Tar on the ocean 53 Compete
54 Like free-range
chickens
56 West of
Tinseltown 57 Country album? 59 History buff’s
artifacts 61 Tearful queen 62 Big brother,
often
63 First chips 64 Chaotic places
DOWN
1 Nursed
2 Zip
3 Overhaul the
plant
4 Old hand 5 Dessert company founded in 1928 6 Shells from
stands 7 Sequentially
8 It runs in the
shower 9 Short-lived
things 10 Indistinct 11 Noted resident of The Dakota in Manhattan 12 Singer?
13 Pale order 14 Tone down 21 Washes out 24 South Seas
cover-ups 26 They’re beaten
at parties 28 Intrusive 32 Tough guy’s
exhortation 34 Church of
country
35 Allergy sufferer’s
choice 36 Legendary court
figure
37 Mine carriers 40 “As if!” 42 Caribbean city
with cocotaxis 44 German
chancellor Merkel 46 City west of
Baghdad 47 Mercury, e.g. 48 Bargains beyond
belief 51 Teammate of Mariano for 19 years
54 Exploits
55 Small change 58 #16, familiarly 60 Booking agent?