LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Apply softly
4 Indy 500 leader 11 About 40 gallons of it usually makes a gallon of syrup
14 GPS calculation 15 Mollusk with a
nacreous shell
16 Gp. for moms
and dads
17 Particles from
far, far away
20 Burger topping 21 23andMe subject 22 Lena Dunham TV
show
23 Dog topping
25 To wit
26 Wind-driven
clouds
28 Hereditary unit 29 Riddle end,
maybe
32 2001 NBA MVP
Allen
36 Goal
37 Student, ideally 39 Runner Down
Under
40 Zoom alternative 42 Race part
43 Over
45 Brazilian soccer
great
46 Responds to a phone solicitation, perhaps
48 Improvs, e.g.
49 Eye-bending
genre 51 Fiennes of
“The Grand Budapest
Hotel”
53 Drops off before midday?
55 Easy throw
56 “Later”
57 Words With Friends, for one
60 Post-teaching
title for some
62 Latvia neighbor 64 Fluorescent
element?
65 Like many a wedding planner
66 “It’s just a flesh
wound”
67 Repair crew with
tiles
DOWN
1 Interior designer’s specialty
2 Make reparations 3 Margherita pizza
herb
4 It tops out at ten in a doctor’s office
5 “Mixed-ish”
airer
6 Calling or playing
follower
7 Stylish vigor
8 Musical symbol resembling a set of crosshairs
9 Young Darth
10 When the Cold
War ended
11 Pinnacle of
religion?
12 Coral island
13 Violet hybrid
18 Like eyes starting
to tear up
19 Dingy kitchen
item?
24 “A Treatise of Human Nature” author
25 Campbell of “Scream” films
27 Ease up
28 Spiced brew
29 Paper-nest
builder
30 Backpack,
e.g.
31 1926 Pulitzerwinning poet 33 Dramatic shift ... or what’s literally found in each set of circles?
34 Neglect to
mention
35 Sisters in the 2017 film “The Little Hours”
38 Excite, with “up” 41 Exuberance
44 Gender __
46 Underground
recess
47 Declines
50 Flared dress style 52 Released
53 Arnaz of early TV 54 Painter Nolde
58 Place to drop a
line
59 Paw parts
61 1860s gray
63 Klutz