LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Grocery store

sack

4 Outdoor dining

spot

9 Sauce fruit 14 Secluded plight on a desert island, say 16 Stacked

17 Big Ten school with eight national football titles

18 Stretched out like a sharpshooter 19 Good thing for a film’s audio and video to be in 20 Presidential

period, say 21 Dueler’s choice 22 Tolstoy’s

Karenina 24 Enjoy dinner 25 Contacted on a

cellphone

28 AP’s Co-driver of the Century Mario 33 Burn-soothing

creams

34 Socket insert 35 Small amount 36 Fix, as a fight 37 Mickey, to

Rocky

40 Pair in London? 41 Somber news

item

43 Mining finds 44 Water bill basis 46 Rival of

17-Across 48 Defeated 49 Before, in poetry 50 Santa’s naughtyand-nice record, e.g.

51 Illicit romance 54 “Psych!” 55 Protein-rich egg

part 59 Ransacks

60 Rival of 12-Down 62 French school 63 Far-reaching 64 Displeases James

Bond, at the bar? 65 When “the

mouse ran down” 66 Fancy marble

DOWN

1 Playbill listings 2 Like an unswept

fireplace

3 Enter

4 Partners for mas 5 Show up at 6 Headpiece at the Miss America website

7 Greek “i”

8 Free throw value 9 Show up 10 Robbed at sea 11 Alka-Seltzer

sound 12 Car-collecting

comic Jay 13 Garden with a

taboo 9-Across 15 Site

21 Lettuce serving 23 Egg-laying spot 25 Billiards

bounce 26 Suspect’s story 27 Science that involves reasoning

28 Out of this

world

29 “Finale Ultimo” chorus in “The Sound of Music” 30 Word that

excites a dog 31 Trace of color 32 “Peer Gynt” playwright Henrik

34 Prefix with

trooper or legal 38 Federer of tennis 39 Regrets 42 Broadway

destination 45 Lecherous man

goats

47 Flowers in a van Gogh masterpiece 48 Like a mosquito

victim 50 Powerball, e.g. 51 “__ well that ends

well”

52 Rival of

28-Across 53 Central points 54 Ariana Grande album “thank u, __”

56 Fail to put in 57 Volcanic output 58 Had down pat 60 Pasture 61 Opposite of

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