LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Big sister?
7 Way more than
a whimper
11 Pixie
14 Circus equipment 15 Online marketplace 16 Madhouse 17 First U.S. national park 19 Syncopated piece
20 Calvin Klein or Perry Ellis 21 Caution 22 Spilled the beans 23 Love personified 24 Letter writing, some say 26 Oenophile’s concern
28 Bear with a purple bow tie 32 “Yada yada yada” letters 35 Co-star of the 1955 comedy “How to Be Very, Very Popular” 38 Revolutionary murdered in a tub 40 Groom’s garb 41 Generous slices 42 Subject of a 19th-century famine 45 Menu general 46 Tar pits site 47 “Pretty please?” 49 Che’s given name 52 State-spanning rds.
56 Cross by wading 59 Digging
60 The good dishes 61 “The Mikado” band? 62 Aquanaut’s workplace ... or a hint to what’s graphically represented four times in this puzzle 64 Dram 65 Thailand, once 66 Recess 67 Fictional vigilante’s mark 68 Ballpark figs. 69 Christian of “Mr. Robot”
DOWN
1 Sanctuaries 2 Substitute players 3 Frodo inherited his ring 4 Queen of mystery 5 Small-runway aircraft acronym 6 Spokane-to-Walla Walla dir. 7 Software to debug 8 Scrub, at NASA 9 Aspirant 10 Drano compound 11 Biblical reformer 12 Library transaction 13 “Around the World ... ” hero 18 Affirmed in court 22 Happy hour perch 24 __-di-dah 25 Lighter brand 27 Bible book read during Purim 29 Frank’s cousin 30 Gambling parlors, for short
31 Very 32 Expressionist painter Nolde 33 Plantation near Twelve Oaks 34 Nursery purchase 36 Rural road feature
37 One demanding payment, say 39 Comparable to a beet 43 Pressed sandwiches 44 Confucian ideal 48 Cornell’s city 50 Conclude by 51 Parts of some flutes
53 First of a series 54 __ of Hearts, accused tarts thief 55 Cavalry sword 56 With “the,” TV character who first jumped the shark—literally 57 Village Voice award 58 Harvest-ready 60 Spreadsheet box 62 Employ 63 KLM rival