L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 “Designing Women”

co-star

6 Constellation critter

10 “Might as well”

hashtag

14 Watch part

15 Got down to

business

17 Botanical opening

18 Auto-graph?

19 Salmorejo base

21 Going around in

circles, say

22 German conjunction

23 “Encanto” uncle

25 Some peaceful

protests

27 Comment before “He was dead the whole time,” hopefully

30 Salt component

31 Finest form

32 Morally bankrupt

36 Cooks up

38 Ayesha Rascoe’s

network

39 4-Down quality

40 Informal gettogether

41 Pool units

43 Langston Hughes

Library designer

44 “Let me recover

from that” 48 Tears it up on the

slopes

50 Stage

51 Cable abbr.

52 Knob-handled tools

54 “Ish”

57 Mane squeezes?

60 Serving a purpose

61 Paws-itive

homebody?

62 Cliffside town west

of Málaga

63 Squad

64 Like freshly

moisturized skin

65 Bad look

DOWN

1 Soft call

2 Inflatable pilot in

“Airplane!”

3 Ska instruments

4 Wheat-free soy sauce

5 Flippers?

6 Women of Troy’s sch.

7 Rihanna’s “As _ _ as

You and Me”

8 Time out in the park?

9 Barbie owner?

10 Fashion house cofounded by Pierre Bergé

11 “Love that for you!”

12 Cuts for Canadianstyle bacon

13 News stand? 16 Filmmaker Jackson

20 Donor type, briefly

24 Part of a halftime snack for many a soccer player

26 Article

27 Bros, e.g.

28 Toner target

29 Totally psyched

33 Part of a heart-toheart exchange

34 “You convinced me”

35 Trap collection

37 Sound like a fan

39 Performances that might earn major props?

42 Grounded birds

45 “Swell”

46 Part of PEI

47 Big name in salt

48 Dazzled

49 Passport producer

51 Narrow peninsula

53 Leaves on the side

55 Tavern adjective

56 Cause of quakes

58 Hebrew for “day”

59 Total mess