LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like many superheroes
6 Paper items
10 Rock-blasting equipment
14 Kind of acid used in food flavoring
15 Dos x dos x dos
16 Indian garb
17 Origami academy?
19 Chimney liner 20 Victorian, e.g.
21 Erelong
22 Physicist who left Italy in 1938 to protect his Jewish wife
23 Exhaust from the carnival food tent?
27 Hand over
28 Small wake maker
29 Cowboy, at times
32 Scary beach phenomenon?
37 Pitcher with no arms
38 Backbone
40 Forest grazers
41 Garment tailored to flatter your waist?
43 Growing things
44 Quotable boxer
45 Story
47 Divisive politician? 53 Filmmaker born Konigsberg
54 Barbarian 55 Nickname derived from “Mortgage Association”
58 Glasses, in adspeak
59 Boldness, and a hint to five long puzzle answers
62 Yonder thing
63 Hawaiian island
64 She turned Odysseus’ crew to swine
65 Antoinette preposition
66 Highland hats
67 Toys on strings
DOWN
1 Tea and cake purveyor
2 Deity with a bow
3 Rice dish
4 Finish
5 Set of related documents
6 Optimism opposite
7 Prefix suggesting affordability
8 Journalist’s question
9 Fa-la link
10 Factory equipment, e.g. 11 “The Piano” extra
12 Publicity video
13 Peaceful protest
18 Electrical supply
22 Symbols of wealth
24 Bitter
25 Meat cut
26 Exit __ 29 Penalty caller
30 Talkative “Winnie the Pooh” character 31 Edible sphere 32 Able 33 Lazybones 34 Unappealing viscous material 35 The Beatles’
“I Saw __ Standing There” 36 Org. using wands
38 Aria, usually
39 Royal annoyance?
42 Biblical brother
43 Orator’s skill
45 Fertile Crescent waterway
46 Farming prefix
47 Some protests
48 Top dog
49 Unarmed, to a cop
50 Modern messages
51 End of a giant sequence
52 Nail-filing abrasive
56 With the bow, on a score
57 Watchers 59 Life-saving pro
60 Airport org.
61 Spanish uncle