LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Handy tension

reliever

11 Kick back 15 “Aww!”

16 Fair

17 Places for posers 18 Banh mi spread

19 Nonsense 20 Fabric types

21 Racer with a crew 22 Pasture mom 24 Exchange

membership 25 Trumpet 26 Guiding lights? 28 Leaves on the sly 30 Pub order 31 Architectural

deets

33 Omission

indications

35 In

37 Instrument akin to

an oud

38 Bucolic

42 From then on 45 Tony-winning

playwright Ensler 46 Prepare to show

some muscle 48 Pets

50 From around here

52 One way to start 54 Reason to go

green?

55 Desktop

assortment 56 Software to debug 58 Very long time 59 “Pretty please?” 60 Let others talk 62 Inserts, say 63 Event necessitated by a move, perhaps 64 Bridge site 65 “Why the tears?”

DOWN

1 Moving

multitudes 2 Speakers often

clear them 3 Dilapidated digs 4 Space-saving

abbr.

5 La Jolla scientific research institute namesake 6 Medical

procedures 7 Keeps occupied 8 On the line

9 MRI technician’s

request

10 “__ Djinns”: Franck symphonic poem

11 Century 21 rival 12 Ambitious track

wagers 13 See-through

device

14 Piccolo sounds 21 Confident response after being doubted 23 Straight up 27 Underwater

groups

29 __-size 32 HomePod Mini

voice 34 Diagonally cut

pasta

36 Vine fruit that can be dried and used as a container 38 Smoothie King

Center NBAer 39 California state

fruit

40 Duel personalities

41 Some sleep on it 43 Mall features 44 “Ta-da!” 47 Watched a boxer,

say

49 Matched, as movie sound and action

51 Star __: five-spice

ingredient

53 Juice amounts? 57 Word before “A Lady” or “A Woman,” in two old Top 10 songs 60 Bench for a flock

61 Spanish pronoun