LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Slightest

6 Knocks

10 Delicacy

14 Sign of autumn

15 Arizona’s __ Fria river 16 Fish-eating duck

17 Wet one?

19 “Veep” Emmy winner Tony 20 Parisian possessive 21 Streaming service acquired

by Fox in 2020

22 Seating request

23 Day one?

27 Big name in game shows 28 Lack of practice, metaphorically

29 Fashion’s Oscar __ Renta 30 Last of the Oldsmobiles 32 CDs with three or four songs 35 Air Force one?

39 Sun spot

40 Made a choice

41 “You’re so right!”

42 Two piece?

43 Tribute creator

45 Number one?

50 Leave red-faced

51 Senator Booker

52 Like steak tartare 55 Astronaut Christina who

spent 328 days in space 56 Cellular one?

59 Art Deco master

60 Hebrides isle

61 More than most

62 Sgts. and cpls.

63 “Guardians of the Galaxy” filmmaker James 64 Sees

DOWN

1 Some bus. entities

2 Word with a harp on some

euro coins

3 In a really bad way

4 “__ Lanka Matha”: South

Asian national anthem 5 Mystical Hindu text 6 Shabbat services leader 7 Over

8 Crawl space?

9 For example

10 CafePress purchase

11 Pile up

12 Instrument with an end pin 13 Many a middle-schooler 18 Goopy buildup

22 Storyteller credited with the

fable “The Wolf and the Crane” 24 California town with an annual music festival

25 Avarice

26 Contented rumble

27 Go for

29 MLB sluggers who don’t play

the field

30 Is __: likely will

31 Wireless standard initials 32 Nightmarish movie location 33 Ada Lim—n, for one

34 RR stop

36 Sectional, e.g.

37 Cartel HQ’d in Vienna 38 Armitage of “Big Little Lies” 42 Quick races

43 Una y __ vez: Spanish for

“time after time”

44 Guest room piece

45 Spoken for 46 Multiple-choice choices 47 Blade for a hobbyist

48 NCAA school with the most

first-round WNBA draft picks 49 “Dunkirk” director Christopher

53 Land parcel

54 __ and wherefores 56 Generous

57 Marker

58 New Deal energy prog.