LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Lose it
10 Malleable
15 One of two in a historic 1869 Utah meeting
16 Desensitize
17 Coloring of some papers?
18 Former birds only found on Mauritius
19 Fluid obstacles
20 In this way
22 French military cap
23 Projection, e.g.: Abbr.
24 Fancy, in slang
25 One-named fashion icon
26 Lunar dark spot
28 1930s J.B. Rhine coinage, briefly
30 Uncanny
31 Branch-dwelling rainforest reptile
34 Eleventh-hour
36 Hardly reputable
37 Defiant admission
38 Proves
41 Kept on riding
43 Lab sound
44 Quote qualifier
45 2021 Pac-12 champs
46 Muck
48 Word before hack or jack
50 “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed” writer
53 French for “unbleached”
54 Spill the beans
55 Herringbone, e.g.
57 Paris possessive 59 Required network announcement
61 Dwarf, with “over”
62 Presidential carrier that flew with an allwomen crew for the first time in 2009
63 Gin berries
64 Intelligence boss
DOWN
1 Very short putt, in golf lingo
2 Snack brand with a 2012 100th-anniversary “Daily Twist” campaign
3 Wordlessly greet
4 Class division
5 Cartoonist Addams
6 Throw to a tot
7 Horn of Africa country
8 Tokyo brewer
9 Picked up
10 Raise a paddle, perhaps
11 Ramen morsel
12 Uncovered subject
13 Rat (on)
14 “You know it!”
21 Passable
24 Country club employee
26 Social media spreader
27 Tartarus, in Greek myth
29 Group that follows a star?
31 Users of travelers’ checks?
32 Back in after going out
33 Dine expectantly?
35 Actor William of “Boy Meets World”
39 Informed advice
40 Great divides
41 Liszt’s homeland
42 Had a fast break?
47 Blender button
49 Coming up soon
50 Cab alternative
51 QB protectors, in football lingo
52 Senior
55 Amy’s mid-2000s “Weekend Update” partner
56 Burdens
58 TV drama settings
60 South Carolina senator Scott