L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Mike and __: fruitflavored candy

4 Spanish small plates

9Bungling 14 Supervillain Luthor

15 On one’s toes

16 Fourth prime number

17 Fish-throwing Muppet

_ _ Zealand

18 Wall Street

fluctuation

20 Sambuca flavor

22 Spanish grandmother

23 Unpaved side of the

road

27 Patella place

28 Common first section

of a menu, familiarly

29 Food Network host

Garten

32 Jeans accent

34 Architect’s creation

37 Take a different route, and a hint to the circled letters

41 Grumble over

42 Swamp reptile, for

short

43 “lol oops”

44Exceedingly 45 Mountain climber’s

goal

49 Boundary of a black

hole

53 See where one’s coming from

55 Like a couch potato

56 Overly cute “So

cute!”

60 Business VIP

61 Country singer Gill or writer/producer Gilligan

62Deceitfulness 63 Meat in a Dr. Seuss

title

64 Shutter strips

65 Les _ _-Unis

66 Player coming off the

bench, for short

DOWN

1 “Let me find out”

2 Passionate about

3 Post-divorce party

4 Brings under control

5 Styled after

6 “As _ _ our agreement”

7 Noah’s boat

8 Fantastic deals

9 Debate topic

10 More contemporary

11 Like a supervillain

12 Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame

13 “Star Trek” series, for

short

19 Not yet scheduled:

Abbr.

21 Fondue fuel

24 Safe space 25 Persuasive column

26High-strung 29 Sundial three

30 Private aid gp.

31 “I Hope You Dance” singer Lee _ _ Womack

33 Tennis player Swiatek

34 Half a droid name

35 Prefix with system

36 Use a colander

37 “Ghosts” network

38 Yonder lass

39 Minnesota senator

Klobuchar

40 Poison ivy reaction

44High-strung 46 Prague residents

47 “The Island of Doctor

_ _”: H.G. Wells novel

48Bury

49 Put in power

50 Bouquet holders

51 Pilot’s update, briefly

52 Reacts to yeast

53 Bubble and churn

54 One of four active

volcanoes in Italy

56 Den sets

57 Not trendy

58 Fjord kin

59 Simple sammie