LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Otherwise
occupied 5 “Checkmate!” 9 Concert gear 13 “__ upon a midnight dreary ... ” 14 Origami bird 15 Henhouse
16 “¡__ mío!” 17 Rabbit kin 18 Color of
unbleached linen 19 Dinner and drinks
with a preacher? 22 Actor Jeong 23 “Quite so” 24 Move, roots and
all
26 Thousands of years, for a megalith?
31 __ Diego
34 CNN anchor
Burnett
35 Brain teaser aid 36 Bouillon cube
maker
38 “Queen __”: pop
music nickname 40 Big fetes 41 Quechua speaker 42 Nonpayment risk,
for short 44 Squalid digs 45 Exam for a certificate in mediation? 50 “Same!”
51 Titter
55 Golf ball position 57 Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? 60 Gumbo pod 62 Miso soup base 63 Possess
64 Ray
65 Like some rural
roads at night 66 Rid of wrinkles 67 “__ there, tiger” 68 Poems of praise 69 Ice cream brand with a birthday cake flavor
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1 __ Tree: place of enlightenment in Buddhist tradition 2 Collective
bargaining group 3 Give a good
talking-to 4 “Okay, I get it” 5 Country where
Farsi is spoken 6 New Orleans
voting district 7 Like challenging
pushups
8 Lipton rival 9 Royal flush card 10 Nojito and nada
colada, for two 11 Sweat outlet 12 Like some silk or
sugar 14 Garment similar
to a hijab 20 Parking post 21 Short music
releases
25 Job safety org. 27 Bit of cacao 28 Month before
febrero
29 Little pest
30 Site with handmade crafts
31 Omit
32 Actress
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33 Sign at some 49 Computer pro
museums 52 Stockpile 37 Sack __ 53 Diplomat 39 Thus far 54 Perfect places 40 “Check it out” 55 Ear part 43 Watch the 56 Store whose
birdie? packages 46 UFO beings typically contain 47 Tegan and Sara, Allen keys
for one 58 Archipelago part 48 “Independence 59 __ end up Day” director 61 Sedaris of “The Emmerich Mandalorian”