The Union Democrat

THE DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis for the Los Angeles Times

ACROSS

1 Red aperitif

8 Defib experts

12 Really clean up

14 Love or life follower

15 “Let me try again ... ”

17 Morsel

18 Old Irish

19 Mireille of “Big Love”

21 Street cred

22 Crush a 23-Across performanc­e, perhaps

23 Nothing to fret about?

26 Expand

27 Up from Spain?

29 Hero with a weak spot

33 Inuk of film whose real name was Allakarial­lak

34 Breezy farewell

35 Try again?

36 Proceed unsteadily

37 Intrepid

38 Promising spot?

39 Crown

40 Ones to “watch out for,” per an Amazon Prime reality series

42 Nearly all

46 Jiff

47 Throw away in

disgust, slangily

48 13-Down, for one

49 Wakeboardi­ng spot

51 Cantina rounds

54 100 sawbucks

55 Minor celebritie­s?

56 Spanish pronoun

57 Ticked by

DOWN

1 Animal with three sets of eyelids and two sets of eyelashes

2 Wolf voiced by Giancarlo Esposito in “The Jungle Book”

3 Like Bolognese

4 Chef’s collection

5 Receipt fig.

6 Code name on “Money Heist”

7 Paper fatteners

8 Go out on the beach?

9 “Schitt’s Creek” character who says, “What you did was impulsive, capricious, and melodramat­ic, but it was also wrong”

10 Hot-dish topping

11 Blended family prefix

12 Feedback providers?

13 Habanera kin

16 Second person

20 “Sugar Town” singer

23 “Inferiorit­y

complex” coiner

24 “Et tu” day

25 Having a key

26 Hypersensi­tivity

28 Squeaks (by)

29 Chapati flour

30 “Neat!”

31 All the rage and

hard to come by

32 Entry need, maybe

33 Comes close

35 Word in many Spanish team names

37 Figure on the Oregon license plate

39 Word that may make a dog sit up

41 “Everybody Hurts” band

42 Part of the inn crowd

43 With heels up 44 Get into hot water?

45 “The Last of Us” survivor played by Anna Torv

46 Plum kin

48 French press alternativ­e

50 __ surf

52 Long-lasting polish

53 Actress Ortiz

 ?? By Jess Rucks ?? 9/30/23
By Jess Rucks 9/30/23

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