LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 College-level HS English course

6 __ and drop

10 Party loot

14 Place for a bench warmer?

15 Bag

16 Melodramatic sigh

17 Building a fire without any charcoal or lighter fluid?

20 Brain wave readout, for short

21 Not bumpy

22 Hindu spiritual writing

23 Mountain of comfy shoes?

27 Only cardinal direction not in a state name

28 Big lug

29 Dirty word?

32 Mesopotamian region where

cuneiform was invented

35 Missay, say

36 Prefix with dynamic

37 Artichokes eaten first thing

in the morning?

41 Potato spots

42 Dawn goddess

43 Specks

44 Gesture-based communication syst.

45 Ancient

46 Designer Gucci

48 “Should this potted plant go in the dining room window or the bedroom window?,” e.g.

54 Many, casually

56 “High Drama” singer Lambert

57 Premier __: French wine designation

58 Relinquishing one’s noble title?

62 Oxford, but not Cambridge 63 Quod __ demonstrandum

64 Hilarious

65 Basic math homework 66 Autos

67 Full of fluff

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1 Pack animals

2 “Lion” Oscar nominee Dev

3 “Super Mario” brother

4 Fortune rival

5 Share

6 Antarctica, for one

7 Unlike a 6-Down

8 Quilting, e.g.

9 Serengeti grazer

10 Broke out of a slump?

11 Poultry choice

12 Omnia vincit __

13 Actress Rowlands

18 Part of YSL

19 Starting on

24 Equals

25 Like some subjects

26 “The Practice” actress __

Flynn Boyle

30 __ Minor

31 Colon units

32 __ butter

33 One-eighties

34 Violent vortex

35 Triage ctrs.

36 In the offing

38 Give a shout-out?

39 Word with surf or shop

40 Restaurant offering that may have an age limit

45 Skin care brand

46 Open-book exams?

47 Prolific TV producer Norman

49 Caribbean spots

50 2022 FIFA World Cup host

51 Strand during a ski trip, say

52 “... never mind, then”

53 Like brown butter

54 Minus

55 Diamond Head locale

59 __ center

60 Stretch of history

61 Sports doc’s scan