LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Maxims

5 Indian

dignitaries 11 Pizzeria order 14 Make bootees,

say

15 Childish

response 16 Lenient

17 *“We’ll never

understand” 19 Sports rep 20 Familia

members

21 __ Palmas:

Canary Islands port

22 Ranch unit

23 Not just a few 25 *Color named

for a fruit 27 Public face

29 Not yet firm 30 D’backs, in box

scores

31 Residue in a

charcoal grill 33 Pt. of many long

weekends 34 *Large bovine of American folklore 40 Slithery

swimmer

41 Loaf that may contain caraway seeds

42 Rival

44 Like a

designated driver 47 Weepy 50 *Political satirist who wrote “Holidays in Hell” 54 “Phooey!” 55 Umbrella spokes 56 __ chi: martial art 57 Ten, for openers 58 Recede

59 Louisa May Alcott classic whose main characters are hidden in the answers to the starred clues 63 Wonderment 64 Lipton drink 65 High coif 66 Teller of corny jokes, stereotypically 67 Not strict with 68 Discreet

summons

DOWN

1 Compete in the

Super G, e.g. 2 Colony critter 3 Climbing vine with purple flowers 4 Connecting

flights

5 Tampa Bay

baseballers 6 Horace’s “__

Poetica”

7 “Fist of Legend”

action star 8 Starting squad 9 Neigh-sayer 10 __ latte: dairyfree order 11 Director’s call 12 “So true!” 13 Magnitude 18 Cinco de __ 22 Golfer Palmer,

informally 23 Org. with a Climate Change section on its website

24 Sink or swim 25 Mascara target 26 Hindu spiritual

adviser

28 The older of baseball’s two leagues: Abbr. 32 Possessive

pronoun 33 Vamoose

35 Pub round 36 Architect

Saarinen

37 Data unit 38 Freeway exits 39 Cross off 43 Overhead trains 44 Cream cheese,

e.g. 45 Algonquian

language 46 Rose and fell on

the waves 48 Over again 49 Get back

51 City near

Syracuse 52 Hotel postings 53 Poker pot 57 Leader with an

.edu address 59 Fabrication 60 Name of 13

popes 61 Masthead VIPs 62 “__ too shabby!”