L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Gasteyer of “Mean

Girls”

4 Stand-up individual?

9Breakfast, lunch, and

dinner

14Place for a pint

15 Miso soup mushroom

16 Data processor’s

need

17 Lenovo products

18 *Be extremely helpful

20Some pints

22Crying harder

23Tempo similar to

largo

25Prepares, as a sleeping bag

29*Staged a fireworks

show

33 Part of EVOO

34Used DoorDash, say

35 Auction site

36*Start of an instruction to an automated assistant 41Very 42Rene of “Tin Cup” 43Death on the Nile cause, perhaps

44*Sensitive area

50Frightening vision

52 Part of TNT

53 Do over and over

57“Begone!” 58Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues?

62Convent figure

63 Adult stage in

insects

64 Provide an address

65 Here, in France

66Airport structure

67“Whose Line Is It

Anyway?” host Aisha

68 “Evita” role

DOWN

1Revolt 2Atomic cores

3Playing hooky, perhaps

4Cartoon still

5 “Roger that, boss!”

6Make emotional

7 Maker of Ektorp sofas

8 Fruit type that tends to be in season in winter

9Kathy Bates film based on a Stephen King novel

10Month after diciembre

11 Mo. after Mar.

12Hon

13 Sault _ _ Marie

19Sty sound

21 Queen Anne’s house

24__-Free: contact lens

solution

26 Piercing spot

27“Not true!”

28Devious 30Your, in Tours

31 Dash, quaintly

32_ _ nous

35 Characters in some

texts

36Slugger Sammy

37 Guessing game

38Ger. neighbor

39Nashville sch.

40 ID on a Barnes &

Noble buy 41Outraged

44Took, as an exam

45 Baseball analyst Hershiser

46Transplant 47Pertaining to a

certain culture

48 Catcher’s stance

49 Nickname for the

Canadian $2coin

51 Small fly

54 Out of whack

55 Blue-green shade

56Art Deco icon

58Cleverness

59 Brief “I would say ... “

60Order’s partner

61Msg. from a pulpit