LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Simon __: kids’
game
5 Not for kids,
moviewise
11 Small amount
14 Shopper’s
memory aid
15 Aviator Earhart
16 Skating surface 17 “I had no __!”
18 It follows 35Down
19 Milk grain
20 Imitative bird
22 Pioneering game
consoles
24 Reaction to a
strange object
28 Lengthy tales
31 e__: online
instructional guide 32 Shoot well under
par, in golf lingo 36 App purchaser
37 Serious criminal 39 Actress Anderson 40 Everest and K2:
Abbr.
41 Out of practice
42 Lender’s claim
43 Stick-in-the-__
44 Make like new, as
old furniture
46 Tater __: deepfried potato morsel
47 Parisian season 48 Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66Across
49 Opposite of WSW 50 Showed again
52 Bandage brand
53 Less adulterated 55 Summoned, as
the fiddlers three 58 Comfy shoe pad 61 With milk, as café 65 Crystal ball gazer 66 In 2021, it begins
September 22nd 70 Place to de-stress 71 Turkey neighbor 72 In twos, like socks 73 Nosh
74 Fathers’ boys
75 Gets hot on
76 Many pop-ups DOWN
1 Lose one’s footing 2 Musical based on
an opera
3 Belgian river
4 Movie with R2-D2 5 Dreads sporter
6 Excite, with “up”
7 Thrice, in Rx’s
8 New Haven alum 9 Kitchen dweller of
song
10 Motley
11 Designer Christian 12 Smoothie berry dubbed a superfood
13 Wagers 21 “I see” words
23 Ring-shaped reef 25 “Same drink as
always”
26 Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down
27 Black-and-white,
e.g.
28 It precedes 66Across
29 Sharp-witted
30 Word with role or
identity
33 Hang around
34 Common soccer
deadlock
35 It follows 66Across
37 MHz measure
38 “Eli’s Coming”
songwriter Laura 44 Kidney-related
45 Describes in detail 51 Squirrel’s haul
54 Web address
letters
56 Jumped
57 Widely known
58 Wife of Osiris
59 Fiddling emperor 60 Actor Connery
62 Away from port 63 Apple tablet
64 Body art, casually 67 Former Mideast
org.
68 Deadlock
69 Keats’ “Ode on a
Grecian __”