LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Meat on a
skewer
6 Better mtge.
deal
10 Subtle “Look
this way”
14 Gulf of __: Red
Sea inlet 15 Horror movie
helper
16 Healthy 17 Albacore and
yellowfin 18 “Darn it!” 20 Ingredient in some Tibetan cheese 22 Genealogy aid 23 Pie-mode link 24 Cut out early 25 “Heavenly!” 26 Mont Blanc, e.g. 29 Beatles’ meter
maid
31 Hunk of dirt 33 Lea plea 34 Fast-food chain named for its founders, the Raffel Brothers 36 Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver Michael 39 Splendor 41 Maple extract 42 Born yesterday,
so to speak 43 Female folklore
deity
44 Part of a plug 46 Word with pool
or park
47 First name in
country 49 List-ending abbr. 50 Finish
51 Crayon shade 53 Legendary Greek
mount
55 Drink with
scones 57 Ideal way to
work, teamwise 59 “No idea” 63 Living labyrinth 65 Time off,
informally 66 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author Jean 67 Kitchen cooker 68 Clear the board 69 Nimble
70 Let off steam 71 Drops below the
horizon
DOWN
1 Pop singer Perry 2 Water color 3 River border 4 Hawaiian-born
president 5 Sherlock Holmes portrayer in 15 movies 6 Gamble
7 __ trip
8 “On Golden Pond” actor or actress 9 Dramatically
twisty 10 Awesome, in ’90s
slang
11 Wise counsel 12 Blizzard remains 13 Grade for a soph 19 Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers 21 Bandit’s hideout 24 Silicon Valley
region
26 “You got that
right!”
27 Like many
doilies 28 Interpreter of
lines
30 Recipe amt.
32 “... boy __ girl?” 35 Predicament 37 Lendl of tennis 38 Uncool one 40 Copy
45 Kid-lit’s __ the
Great
48 “I, Robot” author 51 Comedy club
sounds 52 Exhaust
54 Ward (off ) 56 Gaming giant 58 Hideous
59 Like knees
during a squat 60 MRI image 61 Face concealer 62 Focus group? 64 Buddhist sect