LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hint of color 6 Biblical tower site 11 Inquire

14 Play area? 15 Greek salad fruit 16 Sushi topper 17 Pride symbol

19 Texter’s “Hang on

a sec”

20 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”

director Lee 21 No-frills font 22 Wee bit 23 Arachnid relative that resembles a crustacean

27 Sex therapy

subject

29 Helpful supporter 30 Loads

31 Give in a little 33 Irritate 36 Functions

perfectly, and

what can be said about the starts

of 17-, 23-, 46-,

and 57-Across 40 Brief alarm? 41 Fake

42 Singer India.__ 43 Gargantuan 44 “The Country

Girls” novelist Edna

46 Minty frozen treat

at McDonald’s

every March 51 School year

division 52 Swarms (with)

53 Noble __

56 With 11-Down, Michigan college

town

57 Nutty-tasting

winter vegetable

60 TNT part 61 Sounds from

happy cats

62 Loosen, as a knot

63 Storm center 64 Borden

spokescow 65 Utopias

DOWN

1 Actress Reid

2 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis”

3 People next door 4 “Erin Burnett OutFront” channel

5 Knight’s tunic 6 “Ziggy Stardust”

singer David

7 Some Italian

sports cars, for

short

8 Star of HBO’s

“Barry”

9 Actress Longoria

10 Part of a race 11 See 56-Across 12 Kinda

13 Shish __

18 Approximately

22 Slippery, as a

road

24 Barnyard sound 25 Actress

Kurylenko

26 Utility abbr.

27 Newton trio

28 “Am __ early?” 31 Dividing lines 32 Luau strings,

briefly

33 Diversify, in a

way

34 Ohio border lake 35 Marvel mutants who battle

Magneto Egg (on) 37 38 Macy’s red star,

for one

39 Literary “Listen!” 43 “I wonder ... ”

44 Units of

resistance

45 Language from

northern Spain 46 Utter

47 “Atlanta” actor

Brian Tyree __ 48 Golfer Palmer,

to fans 49 Beach volleyball

Olympic gold medalist __ Walsh Jennings

50 Pick up

54 Spelling

clarification phrase

55 Wally Lamb’s “__

Come Undone”

57 Imitate

58 __-de-sac

59 German

conjunction