LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Story like “Roots” 5 K9 Advantix II
targets
10 Dance that tells a
story
14 Capturing device 15 Cuba __: rum
cocktail
16 Former Lacoste partner in sportswear
17 Taj Mahal city 18 5,000 feet,
roughly 20 Providing postbath garb to redbreasted singers? 22 Keep a roomie
awake, maybe 23 Letters before an
alias
24 Window sticker 28 Surg. areas 30 Chocolate-filled
cookie
31 Doing poorly in
baking class? 36 Became the
champ
37 Farm bleaters 38 Like many SSA payment recipients 39 Growing dried
grapes? 44 Mischievous
doings
45 Jaguar XK-E, e.g. 46 Tomato
concentrate 47 Hope/Crosby film destination 50 Make roar, as an engine 54 Recording easy putts?
57 “That’s slightly inaccurate” 60 Bluesy James 61 Put one __ on: fool 62 Gadget used on an apple
63 Ace, as a test 64 High roller’s rolls 65 The ones over there
66 Abound (with)
DOWN
1 Overhead
twinklers
2 One of the noble
gases
3 Actress Greta 4 Two that match,
as socks
5 Flier on a pole 6 Heavenly scales 7 Kindle download 8 Dutch-speaking
Caribbean island 9 Alien-seeking org. 10 “And he ... HE __! ... The Grinch carved the roastbeast!”
11 Israeli weapon 12 Enthusiastic online
“Ha-ha!” 13 Beverage suffix 19 “__ I don’t?”:
challenging words 21 Foam-based ball 25 Piled-stones
memorial 26 Authors Rice and
Tyler
27 Suffered defeat 29 6-Down and 11
others 30 Beethoven’s love 31 Polynesian Disney
princess
32 Watts and volts 33 Rich holiday drink 34 Long-nosed fish 35 L.A. commuter
org.
36 Rolled-up
sandwich
40 Paid tot minders 41 Mountaineer’s tool 42 Lee whom nobody
doesn’t like 43 Sinner’s
atonement words 47 Copier brand 48 MC’s opening
words
49 Looks untowardly
toward 51 Curriculum __:
résumé
52 Loosen, as a knot 53 Song of worship 55 Treaty
56 Spare in a Brit’s
boot
57 Currently
58 Egg cells
59 Talking stuffed
bear of film