LA TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Smudge

5 Splinter group 9 Instagram or

Snapchat

12 Past time

13 Union

agreements? 14 “Get outta here!” 15 Trying to overcome a late start, say 18 Clemson’s conf. 19 Silicon Valley setting

20 Hoops net holder 22 Deli order

24 New York prison in

1971 headlines 26 Wine glass feature 27 Suffers from 30 Prince Harry’s alma mater 31 “Any minute now” 36 Org. with Jays and Rays

39 Elastic bikini top 40 Org. with an annual Codebreaker Challenge 41 Critical shuttle maneuver 44 Skier’s pick-meup?

45 Summer hrs. 46 Archipelago part 50 Sweater pattern 53 Salieri, to Liszt 55 Streaming delay 56 Spiritual leader of Nizari Ismaili Muslims 60 Actress Mendes 61 NBC soap since 1965

64 Mineral sources 65 Poolroom powder 66 Gimlet garnish 67 ACLU concerns 68 Cross with a top loop 69 Creepy glance

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1 Go around 2 Humorous feline meme

3 Prophecy source 4 “The Daughter of Time” novelist 5 Six-Day War peninsula 6 Pushing boundaries 7 Soft-drink word since 1886 8 Deposed Russian ruler

9 “That feels good” 10 Pull out all the stops

11 Katy Perry and Mariah Carey 14 “Get outta here!” 16 Watson creator 17 Beverage with dim sum 21 Comics read vertically 23 Montréal mate 25 __ Aviv 27 Perfected 28 Mints brand with mountain peaks in its logo 29 Surgical tube 32 “Speaking frankly,” in texts 33 Armed conflict 34 Home run hitter? 35 Spain’s cont. 36 Like virtually all golf club heads nowadays 37 __ retriever 38 Blowhard 42 Push to the limit 43 Yang’s opposite 47 Memorable guitarist __ Ray Vaughan

48 2009 Justin

Bieber hit 49 Correction device 51 Highlands girl 52 Big 38-Down feature 53 Spring time ... or a military procession involving a word sequence hidden in 15-, 31-, 41- and 61-Across 54 Bigger photo:

Abbr.

57 Mennen lotion 58 Zen question 59 “Incredible” hero 62 “Of course!” 63 Not well