LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Costume
7 Word with friendly
or interface 11 NFL team leaders 14 Do very well 15 Backsplash piece 16 In the style of 17 Having the same
ability
19 Prom rental 20 Firefighting aid 21 On the __: being
broadcast
22 In the loop 24 Touch and go,
grammatically 27 Amount to take,
in an Rx 31 Property claim 32 Acting together
33 Gardener’s bagful 35 “Good point” 39 “Guilty or not
guilty?”
42 Back of the neck 43 D.C. helper 44 Exams for Ph.D.
candidates
45 Top line on many an application form
47 Deny
48 1939 Stephen
Foster biopic 53 “Coco” studio 54 Collectible
records, for short 55 “Roll Tide” school 59 Yalie
60 Rarely ... or what each set of circled letters is? 64 Hoopla 65 Brewpub array 66 In a scary way 67 Dreaming sleep
stage
68 Preferred brownie piece, for some
69 Spanish “You’re
welcome” DOWN
1 “Conversely,” in
texts
2 “Hmm ... no
chance” 3 Square root of
nueve
4 Pillars of Islam
count 5 “__ had enough!” 6 King-jack, e.g., in
bridge
7 Wombs
8 Polite title
9 West __: highend furniture outlet
10 Back up, as a
backup
11 Doha’s country 12 Words on a
jacket
13 Jazz woodwinds 18 __ for tat 23 Stopped running,
as a stream
24 A long time 25 Tapenade
ingredient 26 White or Blue
river
27 First light 28 Workplace safety
org.
29 Source of some
suds
30 Rabbit ears 33 Less likely to
speak up, maybe 34 Ref. work that added “freshperson” in 2021
36 Narrow inlets
37 NCAA Bruins’
home
38 Site for
handmade gifts 40 Get under
control
41 Crowd eruption 46 Make fizzy 47 Like matryoshka
dolls 48 Asparagus piece 49 Olivia of “House”
50 Set theory truth 51 “Uncle!”
52 Corp. honchos 55 Swiss capital 56 Asics competitor 57 Fuse
58 “Game of Thrones” girl __ Stark
61 Chap
62 New car stat 63 Word before a
birth name