LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gasteyer of

“Mean Girls” 4 Stand-up

individual? 9 Breakfast, lunch,

and dinner 14 Place for a pint 15 Miso soup

mushroom

16 Data processor’s

need

17 Lenovo products 18 *Be extremely

helpful

20 Some pints 22 Crying harder 23 Tempo similar to

largo

25 Prepares, as a

sleeping bag 29 *Staged a

fireworks show 33 Part of EVOO 34 Used DoorDash,

say

35 Auction site 36 *Start of an instruction to an automated assistant

41 Very

42 Rene of “Tin

Cup”

43 Death on the Nile

cause, perhaps 44 *Sensitive area 50 Frightening vision 52 Part of TNT

53 Do over and over 57 “Begone!” 58 Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? 62 Convent figure 63 Adult stage in

insects

64 Provide an

address

65 Here, in France 66 Airport structure 67 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” host Aisha

68 “Evita” role

DOWN

1 Revolt

2 Atomic cores 3 Playing hooky,

perhaps 4 Cartoon still 5 “Roger that,

boss!”

6 Make emotional 7 Maker of Ektorp

sofas

8 Fruit type that tends to be in season in winter 9 Kathy Bates film based on a Stephen King novel

10 Month after

diciembre

11 Mo. after Mar. 12 Hon

13 Sault __ Marie 19 Sty sound

21 Queen Anne’s

house 24 __-Free: contact

lens solution 26 Piercing spot 27 “Not true!” 28 Devious

30 Your, in Tours 31 Dash, quaintly 32 __ nous 35 Characters in

some texts 36 Slugger Sammy 37 Guessing game 38 Ger. neighbor 39 Nashville sch. 40 ID on a Barnes &

Noble buy 41 Outraged

44 Took, as an exam 45 Baseball analyst

Hershiser 46 Transplant 47 Pertaining to a

certain culture

48 Catcher’s stance 49 Nickname for the

Canadian $2 coin 51 Small fly

54 Out of whack 55 Blue-green

shade

56 Art Deco icon 58 Cleverness 59 Brief “I would say

... ”

60 Order’s partner 61 Msg. from a

pulpit