LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Multiple choice test options, often
5 Researched item
9 It may be knitted
13 “Mississippi Masala” filmmaker __ Nair
14 Many a map dot
15 Skirmish
17 Fish eggs seller?
19 Delete
20 Admit a mistake
21 City ESE of Phoenix
23 Morning drops
24 Tim who voiced
Buzz Lightyear
25 Command to
Siri to read the clock?
27 Arranged
29 “You’re on the right track”
30 North end? 31 Golf date ruiner
34 She played Thelma in “Thelma & Louise”
35 Public relations fund?
38 One of a 15thcentury seagoing trio
41 Soft drink nut 42 Clamorous sound
45 “Let me rephrase that ... ”
47 How Clint Eastwood usually delivers his lines
50 Recreational libation?
53 Copious
54 Top __
55 “Too great a burden to bear”: M.L. King Jr.
56 Food recall
reason
57 Address with style
59 Music for a feisty orator?
62 Drag racer’s fuel, briefly
63 Word repeated in a combat term
64 Scary-sounding lake
65 Tend
66 Hebrew for “skyward”
67 __ date
DOWN
1 Early hrs.
2 Like Earth
3 Enter on hands
and knees
4 Finally occurred to, with “on”
5 It may be pumped in victory
6 Stuff in a tray
7 Tread noisily
8 Tent made of skins
9 Fragile goods concern
10 Play that gave us the word “robot”
11 Instantly
12 Biblical trio
16 Exclusive MLB cap supplier
18 Boy of la casa
22 Spotted
24 Golden brew
25 Smelled really bad
26 Three-pointer, in hoops lingo
28 Ocean State sch.
32 Texter’s “I feel”
33 “Tropic Thunder” actor Nick
35 Rating unit
36 Temple of the gods
37 Scot’s refusal
38 Moving engine part
39 Leave vulnerable
40 Recent delivery
42 Regret strongly
43 Under-the-table
44 Bill promoting science?
46 Defunct flier
48 Bike storage aid
49 Marshmallow treats
51 Response at the door
52 Site of many a climber’s goal
56 Hydroxyl compound
58 La-la preceder
60 “Sonata Quasi __ Fantasia”: Beethoven’s “Moonlight”
61 New Zealand parrot