LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dexterous 5 __+Zoe: fashion brand named for the founder’s children

8 Grills, briefly 12 Geometric

reference line 13 Former frosh 15 Prado display 16 Small pie 17 Prove useful 18 Lean 19 Matchmaker who’s popular in all 50 states? 22 Credit card fig. 23 Initials for William

or Kate 24 Transcript fig. 27 Barriers on the

ocean floor? 33 Record producer Gotti who created the BET series “Tales”

34 Scent

35 Travels to an

away match? 36 Soho stroller 38 Shaver

40 “By __!”

41 Pacific Rim nation 44 Pastoral chorus 47 Transgression 48 Tearing the felt while attempting to put spin on the ball, e.g.?

51 HST successor 52 UPC kin

53 __ carte 54 Demand from a suspicious bartender, and an apt title for this puzzle

61 Texter’s hedge

63 Midwest hub 64 Plus

65 Flow slowly

66 __ friends

67 Deck chair piece 68 Honey bunch 69 Counterpart of

“thx”

70 “Lonely Boy” rock band the Black __

DOWN

1 Cellular plan

component 2 Prof’s preparation 3 Marshmallow

blackener 4 Sandal style 5 Bossa __ 6 Brewpub pours 7 Affectedly

elegant 8 Westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands 9 Yoga backbend also called

Setu Bandha Sarvangasana 10 Liq. measures 11 Firm

13 Revered 14 Hybrid breaking

pitch

20 __ facto 21 Genesis name 25 Musician André with four Oscars and 11 Grammys 26 Approval

27 Went down a bit 28 Gofer trip 29 Preach

30 Classic ISP 31 Gossip fodder 32 Org. headquartered at the RFK Building in D.C. 37 Lousy start? 39 OB or GYN 42 Fine spray 43 Requests from 45 Seán whose first play debuted at the Abbey Theatre 46 Dairyland

structure 49 Keep from

spreading 50 Fabric named for an Asian capital

55 Some sheep 56 Bluegrass

legend Scruggs 57 Isn’t perfect

58 Actress

Fanning

59 “My stars!” 60 Ellipsis trio 61 Electric key 62 Heartache