LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tie named for an annual race venue
6 Destroy, as one’s hopes
10 Spanish hero El __
13 Land at the water’s edge
14 Look at rudely
15 Genetic messenger
16 *Ground-beef-and-gravy dish
19 Out of sorts 20 Ginormous
21 Actor Eckhart of “Sully”
23 Hefty slice 25 *Penny-pincher
28 Completely wrecks
30 Pastry with a crust
31 Long-jawed fish
32 Shorthand crackerjack
33 2019 comedy “__ It Romantic”
35 Cuban coin
36 *“Ode to a Nightingale” poet
39 Numbers game
42 Where about onethird of Istanbul residents live 43 Yellowjackets, e.g.
47 George Harrison memoir “__ Mine”
48 Only partner? 49 “Border” breed
50 *Hung in the balance
54 Cat breed from an Irish Sea isle
55 101 course, typically
56 Commanded
58 T’ai __
59 Different points of view … and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues
63 NFL receivers
64 “Crikey!” is a mild one
65 Soccer shoe
66 Dreyer’s partner in ice cream
67 Miss Muffet fare
68 Flocks’ relatives
DOWN
1 Basketball stats
2 Bulb in a vinaigrette
3 Collect and put in order, as document pages
4 “You do it, __ will!”
5 Radio host John
6 Bread-to-be
7 See eye to eye
8 Wily 9 Fellows
10 Sound from an old staircase
11 Steamed up
12 Montana neighbors, with “the”
17 Tampa NFL team
18 Shock, as a perp
22 Emperor after Claudius
24 Steve Martin’s instrument
26 Sleep clinic study
27 Falafel holder
29 John in the Albert Hall
33 Atlas enlargement
34 Enjoy the slopes
35 Song of praise
37 Oscar-winning composer Zimmer
38 Weeks in a fortnight
39 New Zealander
40 Flow (from)
41 Cuddled up
44 One shirking work
45 “Angels dancing” site, in a theological question
46 Gender-biased sorts
48 Oklahoma tribe
49 Formally give up
51 Pretentious
52 Let up, as a storm
53 “My Life on the DList” comic Griffin
57 Carve in stone 60 Use oars
61 “Don’t think so”
62 Microbrewery brew