LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shelves for
cooking
6 Image problem,
briefly
11 Navy letters 14 Muscat native 15 Catherine of “Best
in Show”
16 Water source 17 Annual e-tail sale
event
19 Good Grips
gadget brand 20 Distrustful
21 Any of six classic
Clue cards
23 “I kissed thee __ I killed thee”: “Othello” 25 Expensive gift 28 Folded snack 30 Put away
31 Shock, in a way 32 Sliced very thin 35 Substantial
38 Old West wanted
poster figure 41 Soprano Fleming 42 Log on to
45 Barely go
(through)
48 Like a favored
project
50 Govt. workplace
watchdog 51 Apollo craft 56 “The Fountainhead” author Rand 57 Build up 58 Raptor’s grabber 60 E’en if
61 Ideal deckshuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers 66 Call someone by the wrong name, e.g.
67 Outrage
68 Small change in a
small bank 69 Catch
70 City on the Rhone 71 Ham it up
DOWN
1 Big bird of myth 2 Adams of HBO’s “Sharp Objects” 3 Iconic San Francisco transport
4 Tot’s perch 5 Fathered
6 “Take that!” 7 “Kung Fu” actor Philip
8 Pops
9 Decapod on a menu
10 Like starfish 11 Ideal place 12 Battle of Hastings combatants 13 Dish cleaner 18 Orthopedist’s pic 22 Like the Empire State Building 23 Presumed UFO crew 24 Cheering word 26 Transgression 27 2016 Tony winner Leslie __ Jr. 29 Like a bogey 33 Romano cheese source
34 Singer Fogelberg 36 Mauna __ 37 Fortune rival 39 Seized wheels 40 Ambiguous
response
43 Short
44 Japanese title of
respect 45 Roofing pieces 46 Trick-taking card
game
47 Recital bonus 49 Private teachers 52 Like much of
Idaho
53 Nasty type 54 Hightail it
55 Hitch on the fly 59 Utah city on I-15 62 Private aid prog. 63 Spot for a recliner 64 Tolkien creature 65 Manhattan liquor