LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Wine, with “the”
6 Athletic gripper
11 5 mL, in some recipes
14 Big state
15 Believer in karma
16 Order from a stool, maybe 17 Delighted
19 Cartoon collectible 20 Back-combs
21 __ sock
23 Last one in, competitively 26 Folklore cave dwellers 27 Jipijapa hat, familiarly
28 Call it a day
30 Stephen Hawking’s journalist
daughter
31 Mouth-watering reaction? 32 Forest female
35 Not online, briefly 36 Delighted
38 Bit of wordplay
39 Eastern principle
40 Theater parts
41 Listen to
42 Log-in need
44 The “P” in TAFKAP
46 “No doubt”
48 Kept from leaking, in a way 49 Spun flax fabric
50 Sear and simmer
52 “__ dreaming?”
53 Delighted
58 Prefix with dairy or fat 59 Math calculations
60 Mild oath
61 “Affirmative, cap’n”
62 Like survey questions with
two boxes 63 Stick-on decoration
DOWN
1 Trailblazer in the muscle car category
2 Gun for a race
3 Tool that’s swung
4 At some point during a trip, say
5 Great regard
6 Storage furniture
7 Margarita garnish
8 Ten-time all-star Slaughter
9 It may be about nothing
10 Sushi choice
11 Delighted
12 Be in a bee
13 Doesn’t measure up
18 “It __ familiar ring to it”
22 Word on a French passport
23 Took off
24 Dern or Linney
25 Delighted
26 Bank heist unit
28 One of the deadly sins
29 Comics punch lines?
31 Sandwich seller
33 Unit of perfume
34 Wrapped up
36 Packers home
37 Voldemort’s title
41 It’s unlimited with some rentals
43 Take in
44 Forked over
45 Didn’t dawdle
46 Comedian Glazer
47 Longtime Shatner co-star
48 Affirmative playground retort
50 Tourney passes
51 Horse of a certain color
54 Old-timey “before”
55 Ms. __-Man
56 Acronym for unabashed intimacy
57 DKNY competitor