LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Term of address in old Westerns
9 Survives, maybe
15 Freaking out
16 DNA sample source
17 Writer’s challenge
18 Ascent, for one
19 Crowd around
20 Show confidence in, with “by”
22 “Seinfeld” surname
23 Touch
25 Short piece
27 2018 film for which Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director
28 Beersheba’s region
30 Organic fuel source
32 “The Color of Money” game
36 Enjoyed, with “up”
37 Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions
40 Disheveled do
41 “Capisce?”
42 They make a lot of calls
44 Inflexible
48 Kids’ song locale
49 Cries of success
52 Tireless assistant
53 Puppy
55 L.A.’s __ Museum of the American West
58 Outlaw
59 Fix
61 “Anything’s possible”
63 Alicia Keys label
64 Got off the leash
65 View secretly
66 Penciled-in item
DOWN
1 Oscar winner as Woolf in 2002
2 Dress for court, maybe
3 Common name for a cockchafer
4 Covert __
5 Drains
6 One way to begin
7 Gymnast who won four golds in Rio
8 Brilliance
9 Biblical mount 10 Slap (on)
11 Renaissance painter D rer
12 Setting for a Billy Joel classic
13 One hiding in the cushions?
14 Breakfast link
21 “Drag Race” host
24 Ark. neighbor
26 Ball charmer
29 Church official 31 Union setting
33 Site of Hercules’ first labor
34 “24” actress Cuthbert
35 Discreetly send a dupe to
37 Curt summons
38 Slice of Americana?
39 “Trinity” novelist
40 Spa treatment whose effects are temporary, per the FDA
43 “Lemme check”
45 Small Asian ape
46 Announcement that suggests strength
47 Homer or jack
50 Feminist poet Lorde
51 Many a pound adoptee
54 It’s a wrap
56 Surrealist Magritte
57 Dixie bunch?
60 Snitch
62 “You can’t mean me!”