LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mamba kin

6 Peak

10 Some Dada pieces

14 Cover name

15 __ and proper

16 Exactly

17 “Fingers crossed!”

19 Theater award

20 Art Institute of Chicago area,

with “the”

21 “Come with me, Spot!” 22 Slightly ahead

23 One with pointy ears and pointy

shoes

24 Actress Thurman 25 Unintentionally reply all, say 27 Longtime NASCAR sponsor 28 Denial

30 Miserly desire

32 Egg layer

33 Catchy pitch

34 Flour used for naan and paratha 37 “We card” cards, for short 38 Novelists Patchett and Petry 39 Grand

42 Open __ night

44 Furry toy spiders that move

when screamed at

45 Kansas home of McConnell Air

Force Base

49 Capitol Hill fig.

50 Actor who played Clubber Lang

in “Rocky III”

51 Annoy

52 Boar’s mate

53 Elba of “Cats”

55 Tirade 57 Floor model

58 Murmurs lovingly

59 Midday hiatus illustrated three

times in this puzzle

61 Asia’s vanishing __ Sea 62 Juvenile outburst?

63 Join

64 Mother of Castor and Pollux 65 __ Spunkmeyer

66 Did well together

DOWN

1 Square dance figure

2 Futbol cheer

3 Removed with one’s chompers 4 Abrasive tool

5 Bat wood

6 Legal challenge

7 Manitoba people

8 Deceives

9 Genre with introspective lyrics 10 On

11 Endorse without reading, say 12 Makeshift storage container for

brushes

13 Becomes more inclined? 18 “That sounds rough!”

22 River through Orsk

24 Employ

26 Trailer park parkers, for short 29 Ryder rival

31 “Stiff” and “Bonk” writer Mary 33 Contribute

34 Out of the ordinary

35 “Sister Carrie” novelist Dreiser 36 E-ZPass stretch, say 37 Educate

40 Virtual citizens in a video game 41 __ Lingus

42 Levity

43 “Eww!”

45 Flinches

46 Happy cry from someone who finally deciphers a Magic Eye picture

47 Salsa ingredient

48 No longer asleep

54 Cuba, por ejemplo

56 Years, in Rome

57 Spy-fi villain in a Nehru jacket 59 Southeast Asian language 60 Software glitch