Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 MTV toon teen 7 Sings the blues 14 Planned city in California’s Orange County 15 Conquered 17 General courses 18 “Could be
worse”
19 __ talks
20 Ones in a mess,
briefly 21 Celestial body 22 Chug-__ 23 Persuaded 25 Instrument dating to the Paleolithic age 27 “Go ahead” 29 One determining
17-Across 30 Wikipedia is an
example of it 32 Like most capital
costs
33 Kind of response to mortal danger 39 Brody who was the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner 40 Contingency
plan 43 Double-check 44 Old Italian
capital
45 “__ oui!” 46 Provoke
47 San Francisco’s
__ Valley 48 Presages 49 Symbolic
attitude?
52 Star close to
Venus?
53 Field of
dreams? 54 Pucker-inducing 55 Denies
56 Parks with
games
DOWN
1 Digital image format 2 Jazz virtuoso
Garner
3 Street in Manhattan’s Alphabet City 4 Salad bar item 5 __ 500
6 His, to Henri 7 Reunion
discovery 8 Bypass
9 Last team to play in the Polo Grounds 10 Sounds from the
stumped
11 Base fig. 12 Bulgur salad 13 Spruce (up) 16 Swedish tennis
great
23 Like some
patches 24 Harder to
explain 25 Precede
26 Inc. kin 28 Blackened from
combustion 29 Exfoliation
material 31 NFL Titan,
once
33 Pasta pellets in
Jewish cuisine 34 Thoughtful
guy? 35 Breakfast bar 36 Sought
anonymity 37 “Just play along,
okay?”
38 Exploit 41 “Burnt” crayon
color
42 Prose pieces 44 More than a little
foolish
47 BCS org.
48 It’s often tapped
out
50 North Sea
feeder
51 They, in Tours 52 Radical ’70s org.