L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Comment accompanying a dismissive hand wave 7 Tucked in

11 Hotel hallway sign 14 Automaker with a six-star logo

15 Serving aid

16 Not talking

17 *Game delay prevented by a chess clock? 19 WNBA player, e.g. 20 Message near a candy bowl

21 Campus group 22 Cartoon supplier of giant anvils

25 Pac-12 school in L.A. 26 Dull repetition 27 *”Has anyone found our pigeon?”

32 Aveeno grain

33 IPO launchers 34 Norse god of war 35 European capital

37 Pet collar attachments 41 Boxers Laila and Muhammad

43 Robot attachment? 44 With it 45 *Completely hooked on swearing by a Roman god?

49 Out of the wind 50 Celery stalk 51 Scrutinized

52 Face off in the ring 53 Single, for one 56 Cantina condiment 57 1981 Top 10 hit for Soft Cell, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues?

61 Versatile blackjack card 62 Carrie-__ Moss of “Jessica Jones” 63 Brought up 64 Scratch, e.g. 65 Space race initials 66 Produces, as an heir

DOWN

1 Sugar suffix 2 Enemy in “Mulan” 3 Agenda placeholder 4 Bikini top option 5 Field of study 6 Mastodon feature 7 Max

8 Prefix with dilator or scope

9 Gutter spot 10 Turn red, say 11 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” technique 12 Parish figure 13 Put on quite an act 18 Whoville creator21 “Down in __!”

22 AFB truant

23 __ latte

24 Team whose first manager was Casey Stengel

28 Gut bacteria 29 Column style 30 Official order

31 Sassy retort

36 The “B” of RBG

38 Cry to a matey 39 Buckle

40 Went 60 in a 50, say 42 Pushes to the limit 43 “Sounds about right” 45 Llamalike mammal 46 Card holder? 47 Former CEO profiled in the book “DisneyWar” 48 Flight risk?

49 Black tea variety 53 Prohibitions 54 Window box plant 55 Produit de la tête 57 Letter between sigma and upsilon 58 Valuable deposit 59 Confirm the credentials of, say 60 Newsroom VIPs