LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flows back

5 Sci. major 8 Fisher of “Wedding Crashers” 12 Eight or nine on the Beaufort scale

13 Twinge

14 Hijab and niqab,

e.g.

16 NVS

18 Like Keebler’s

animated bakers 19 Daze 20 Serpentine fish 22 Toy company with theme parks

23 TDS

26 Bound

30 Island chain 31 Parts of an island

chain

32 Bagel flavor 34 Part of a flight 36 Steve Carell

voice role

39 IC

41 MT

43 “__ been a

while!”

44 Place to have a

ball?

46 Smog element 47 Sweeping 49 Olive extract 51 Some Neruda

poems

52 DVS

56 Costa __

57 Pull the plug on 58 Top 10 U2 song from “Rattle and Hum” 63 High-five sounds 65 ODS

67 Totally fine 68 Cuatro y cuatro 69 Resale warning 70 “Betsy’s

Wedding” writer/director 71 Sporty truck,

briefly

72 Zero

DOWN

1 What some layers

cover

2 Toon boy known for chalkboard gags

3 Flag couleur 4 Flow slowly

5 __ leaf

6 “This isn’t

optional!”

7 Nash who rhymed “Bronx”

and “thonx” 8 First-person

contraction

9 Date stamp 10 Apparel company with a smiling stick-figure icon 11 Set straight 13 Grave danger 15 Love thy

neighbour, say? 17 Snarfing sound 21 Saint __: only country named for a woman 24 Sticky places? 25 Venice’s Piazza

San __

26 Novelist Picoult 27 Peck, e.g. 28 Notification while in silent

mode, perhaps 29 Cauldron

33 Low point

35 Skirt 37 Mythological

character? 38 Applications 40 __ market 42 Aduba of “In

Treatment” 45 Manage 48 Online grocer with green delivery trucks 50 Resulted in

52 __ Major 53 Wafer brand 54 Short-necked

pear 55 “Snowfall” law

gp.

59 Graceful bird 60 “Assuming that’s

the case ... ” 61 Mess up 62 Choice word 64 Genre with

Jamaican roots 66 __/her pronouns