LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lose it

10 Malleable

15 One of two in a historic 1869 Utah meeting

16 Desensitize

17 Coloring of some

papers?

18 Former birds only found on Mauritius

19 Fluid obstacles

20 In this way

22 French military

cap

23 Projection, e.g.:

Abbr.

24 Fancy, in slang

25 One-named

fashion icon

26 Lunar dark spot 28 1930s J.B. Rhine

coinage, briefly 30 Uncanny

31 Branch-dwelling

rainforest reptile 34 Eleventh-hour

36 Hardly reputable 37 Defiant admission 38 Proves

41 Kept on riding

43 Lab sound

44 Quote qualifier

45 2021 Pac-12

champs

46 Muck

48 Word before hack

or jack 50 “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed” writer 53 French for

“unbleached”

54 Spill the beans

55 Herringbone, e.g. 57 Paris possessive 59 Required network

announcement

61 Dwarf, with “over” 62 Presidential carrier that flew with an all-women crew for the first time in 2009

63 Gin berries

64 Intelligence boss DOWN

1 Very short putt, in

golf lingo

2 Snack brand with a 2012 100thanniversary “Daily Twist” campaign

3 Wordlessly greet 4 Class division

5 Cartoonist

Addams

6 Throw to a tot

7 Horn of Africa

country

8 Tokyo brewer

9 Picked up

10 Raise a paddle,

perhaps

11 Ramen morsel

12 Uncovered

subject

13 Rat (on) 14 “You know it!”

21 Passable

24 Country club

employee

26 Social media

spreader

27 Tartarus, in Greek

myth

29 Group that follows

a star?

31 Users of travelers’

checks?

32 Back in after

going out

33 Dine expectantly? 35 Actor William of “Boy Meets World”

39 Informed advice 40 Great divides

41 Liszt’s homeland 42 Had a fast break? 47 Blender button

49 Coming up soon 50 Cab alternative 51 QB protectors, in

football lingo

52 Senior

55 Amy’s mid-2000s “Weekend Update” partner 56 Burdens

58 TV drama settings 60 South Carolina

senator Scott