LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 __ cake

5 Floor plan unit 9 App runner

14 “It can’t be

true!” 15 Humorist

Bombeck

16 Like some

whiskey barrels 17 Test version 18 Too much sun,

they say 19 Common chord 20 Wind tunnel

test object 23 Article in Die

Zeit

24 “Saving

Fish From Drowning” author Tan 25 Snares with

loops

29 1998 Sarah

McLachlan hit 31 Catch

34 Keats work with the line, “She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die” 37 Was short 38 TiVo

predecessor 39 Arabic for

“commander” 40 Note instruction 45 Mme., in Madrid 46 Vega’s

constellation 47 Drops in

speaking

48 Great Lakes’ __

Canals 49 Summer sign 50 Tart drink

concentrates, or what’s literally found in 20-, 34and 40-Across 57 Showy bulb 58 Jazz guitar lick,

say

59 Daily delivery 61 Send over the

moon

62 Play starter 63 One may be a lot 64 Pitch adjuster 65 Top-quality 66 Shake off

DOWN

1 Cygnet’s father 2 Pampas bird 3 Contrarian prefix 4 Beast with tusks 5 Truthful representation, in art 6 Instrument with

pipes

7 Sign

8 Stable parent 9 River to

Chesapeake Bay 10 “The Revenant” Oscar nominee Tom 11 Dust Bowl

migrant

12 Sci-fi author

Stephenson 13 Tight __: football

position

21 Lowly laborer 22 Primary

25 Froot __

26 Ugly marketing

battle

27 “Gotta go!” 28 Cream __

29 AA, on the NYSE 30 Rats relative 31 Wanderer

32 1955 Dior

innovation 33 “Turn! Turn!

Turn!” band, with “The” 35 “Oh, when will they __ learn?”:

Seeger lyric

36 Sphere opener 41 Gag reel scene 42 City on the

Rhône

43 Judge

appropriate 44 Wells’ fruit

eaters

48 Hit hard

49 Some lanes allow

only them 50 Humdinger 51 Dashing style 52 Many a Mideast

native

53 Board game

pieces

54 Time to put up

lights, briefly

55 A head

56 Equine parent 57 First day of

spring, in Hanoi 60 Commanded