LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Spots for pillow talk
5 43,560 square feet
9 British streetcars
14 Forearm bone
15 Agonize (over)
16 Morocco’s capital
17 Din
18 Like takeout food
19 Love, in Italian
20 Bit of rosemary
22 Temperature-controlled storage for bottles
24 Shirt that may have a V-neck
25 Nabisco brand
27 Caused
28 Cunning scheme
30 Nabisco brand
32 Sentence part with a subject and a predicate
34 Many an Omani
35 Vaccine-approving org.
38 Trusting to a fault
39 Sort
40 Like some monuments at night
42 Listener-supported news source
43 Dad
45 Confident poker declaration
46 Red Sea peninsula
47 Fill-in worker
48 “__ and Punishment”
50 Alabama-born activist Parks
52 Kerfuffle
55 “Sweet dreams!”
57 Open, as toothpaste
59 Gem from an oyster
60 Kristen of
“Bridesmaids”
62 Move like sap
63 Close-knit group
64 Jealous feeling
65 Neck and neck
66 Districts
67 “We __ to be at an impasse”
68 Puts the kibosh on
DOWN
1 Fly into pieces 2 Get hitched in a hurry
3 Fix for distressed genes?
4 Draped garment in Hindi films
5 Toward the rudder
6 “Jerry Maguire” director Cameron
7 Carrier that makes short hops
8 Elite British boarding school
9 Source of information for vacation planners
10 Best Western rival
11 Approximately
12 “The Wire” drug lord Stanfield
13 Editor’s “Actually, don’t cut that”
21 Reaction to a chill or a fright, to Brits
23 Fitzgerald of jazz
26 Pastrami on __
29 Hon
31 Nettle
32 “Erin Burnett OutFront” channel
33 Friendly cat’s spot
35 Decide by calling heads or tails, and an apt title for this puzzle 36 Bad-mouth
37 Devoured
39 Hoppy brew, briefly
41 Cooking spray brand
44 Again
45 “__ Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
46 Word before Leone or Madre
48 “Understood?” 49 Duane __: New York drugstore chain
51 Mediterranean oil source
53 In a mental fog
54 Newspaper pundit pieces
55 Pet adoption org.
56 Female sheep
58 Post-it jotting
61 Fitness class