LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Absolute

6 Short helper?

10 IG or FB post

13 Breastfed

15 Fruit cocktail fruit

16 Reddit tell-all session, for short 17 Facial hair, casually 18 *Haymaker’s agenda?

20 West Coast sch. with more than 100 NCAA championships

21 Crispy Crunchies! fries maker 23 Karate level

24 *Major uptick in swimsuit

sales?

26 Footprint maker

27 Fancy foot work

28 Vinaigrette ingredient

30 Lousy grade

31 __-mo

33 Scrape (by)

35 DoorDash category

37 *”The whole team has earned

happy hour!”

41 Arya’s sister on “Game of

Thrones”

42 Feel icky

43 Part of FWIW

44 Some 45s, briefly

45 “Tsk!”

48 High time

50 Switch on the radio? 52 *Hungry hawk’s polite

request?

57 Narrate

58 Hall of Fame pitcher Fingers 59 Baby goat 60 Untangle carefully, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues? 62 Catch sight of

64 Copier size: Abbr.

65 D.C. paper

66 Almond flour’s lack 67 Language suffix

68 Small songbird

69 Finals, e.g.

DOWN

1 Get off a mailing list, informally 2 Ethnic group in Rwanda

3 Album unit

4 Corner key on a PC

5 Brush up on a fading skill,

perhaps

6 Challenging sci. class featuring

evolutionary studies

7 Jet ski brand

8 Charcuterie choice

9 Three, in Rome

10 Regimen based on the eating

habits of early humans

11 “You have my full attention!” 12 Water flask

14 Puts down

19 “Call the Midwife” airer 22 Transport with hill-assist mode 25 Discontinued music players 29 Course component of 6-Down 31 Where some day traders trade? 32 Scattered light effect in a

photo

34 Hurler’s stat

36 Pont Neuf’s river

38 “Mangia!”

39 Old 45, perhaps

40 Leaving unceremoniously? 41 “Grey’s Anatomy” setting 46 Ruckus

47 Traveling ensemble

49 Estadio shout

51 Org. with Earthquakes and Fire 53 “Rocketman” icon John 54 Japanese breed

55 Biting remark?

56 Happy places

61 “Ick”

63 Formal duds