LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bad-mouth

4 Times to call, in ads 8 Descendants of Muhammad,

in Shi’ism

13 Mag for execs

14 Down

15 Irritate

16 Submits a racy version of a

film to the MPAA?

18 Certain war hero

19 Fictional spread near Jonesboro

20 “La Dolce Vita” co-star 22 Sailor’s pronoun

23 Come down

25 Trouble at the family rec

center?

27 Wound up

28 Scottish refusal

30 Serious observance

31 Work unit

32 Passionate

34 Started to overtake, with “on” 36 Filling in for rapper Cardi? 38 Watercolor user

41 Water color

42 On the __: famous

45 Sailor’s emergency container 46 Frank McCourt memoir 47 Govt. security

49 Deans, professors and undergrads?

52 Qajar dynasty’s domain 53 Wilt

54 Ebert’s partner in the 2000s 57 Library ID

58 Win over

60 Mediocre bakery item in home

ec class? 62 Muss

63 “RollTide”school

64 Witness

65 Battletactic

66 Kidstuff

67 Word in a recipe

DOWN

1 Command

2 Asthma sufferer’s relief 3 Working hard to find, with

“up”

4 Fox competitor

5 Sails force?

6 Narwhal feature 7 Macedonian’s neighbor

8 __ Montoya, “The Princess

Bride” role

9 Scrape, say

10 Flooded with

11 Tool for the jungle

12 Guided

15 Duds

17 Won’t leave alone

21 “__ of the Needle”: Ken Follett

novel

24 Piles

26 Common newspaper nickname

28 Zippo

29 Two-time loser to Ike 33 Check for accuracy

34 Safari sight

35 Rock with bands

36 Rural skyline feature

37 Nos. averaging 100

38 Ones who take too much

advantage of a privilege, e.g. 39 Easter Island, to natives 40 Draw

42 Pageant held in Memphis in

2020

43 Said, “She was with me all

day,” say

44 Put in the ground 46 Three-way joint

48 __-a-brac

50 Worker, informally

51 Stuff of legends

52 __ ballerina

55 Banned pollutants, for short 56 Meir contemporary

59 It’s usually higher on the hwy. 61 Weake