LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bad-mouth 4 Times to call,

in ads 8 Descendants of Muhammad, in Shi’ism

13 Mag for execs 14 Down

15 Irritate 16 Submits a racy version of a film to the MPAA? 18 Certain war

hero

19 Fictional spread

near Jonesboro 20 “La Dolce Vita”

co-star

22 Sailor’s pronoun 23 Come down 25 Trouble at the family rec center?

27 Wound up 28 Scottish refusal 30 Serious

observance 31 Work unit 32 Passionate 34 Started to overtake, with “on”

36 Filling in for

rapper Cardi? 38 Watercolor user 41 Water color 42 On the __:

famous

45 Sailor’s emergency container 46 Frank McCourt

memoir

47 Govt. security 49 Deans, professors and undergrads? 52 Qajar dynasty’s

domain

53 Wilt

54 Ebert’s partner

in the 2000s 57 Library ID 58 Win over 60 Mediocre bakery item in home ec class? 62 Muss

63 “Roll Tide”

school 64 Witness 65 Battle tactic 66 Kid stuff 67 Word in a recipe

DOWN

1 Command 2 Asthma sufferer’s

relief

3 Working hard to

find, with “up” 4 Fox competitor 5 Sails force? 6 Narwhal feature 7 Macedonian’s

neighbor

8 __ Montoya, “The Princess Bride” role

9 Scrape, say 10 Flooded with 11 Tool for the

jungle

12 Guided

15 Duds 17 Won’t leave alone 21 “__ of the Needle”: Ken Follett novel 24 Piles

26 Common newspaper nickname 28 Zippo 29 Two-time loser

to Ike

33 Check for

accuracy

34 Safari sight 35 Rock with bands 36 Rural skyline

feature

37 Nos. averaging

100

38 Ones who

take too much advantage of a privilege, e.g. 39 Easter Island, to

natives 40 Draw

42 Pageant held in

Memphis in 2020 43 Said, “She was with me all day,” say

44 Put in the

ground 46 Three-way joint 48 __-a-brac 50 Worker,

informally

51 Stuff of legends 52 __ ballerina 55 Banned pollutants, for short

56 Meir

contemporary 59 It’s usually higher on the hwy.

61 Weaken