L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Flows back 5

8

Sci. major

Fisher of “Wedding

Crashers”

12 Eight or nine on the

Beaufort scale

13 Twinge

14 Hijab and niqab, e.g.

16 NVS

18 Like Keebler’s

animated bakers

19 Daze

20 Serpentine fish

22 Toy company with

theme parks

23 TDS

26 Bound

30 Island chain

31 Parts of an island

chain

32 Bagel flavor

34 Part of a flight

36 Steve Carell voice

role

39 IC

41 MT

43 “_ _ been a while!”

44 Place to have a

ball?

46 Smog element

47 Sweeping

49 Olive extract

51 Some Neruda poems

52 DVS 56 Costa _ _

57 Pull the plug on

58 Top 10 U2 song from

“Rattle and Hum”

63 High-five sounds

65 ODS

67 Totally fine

68 Cuatro y cuatro

69 Resale warning

70 “Betsy’s Wedding”

writer/director

71 Sporty truck, briefly

72

Zero

DOWN 1

What some layers

cover

2 Toon boy known for

chalkboard gags

3 Flag couleur

4 Flow slowly

5 _ _ leaf

6 “This isn’t optional!”

7 Nash who rhymed

“Bronx” and “thonx”

8 First-person

contraction

9 Date stamp

10 Apparel company with a smiling stickfigure icon

11 Set straight

13 Grave danger

15 Love thy neighbour,

say?

17 Snarfing sound 21 Saint __: only country named for a woman

24 Sticky places?

25 Venice’s Piazza

San _ _

26 Novelist Picoult

27 Peck, e.g.

28 Notification while in

silent mode, perhaps

29 Cauldron

33 Low point

35 Skirt

37 Mythological

character?

38 Applications

40 _ _ market

42 Aduba of “In

Treatment”

45 Manage

48 Online grocer with

green delivery trucks

50 Resulted in

52 _ _ Major

53 Wafer brand

54 Short-necked pear

55 “Snowfall” law gp.

59 Graceful bird

60 “Assuming that’s

the case ... “

61 Mess up

62 Choice word

64 Genre with

Jamaican roots

66 __/her pronouns