LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “You Shook Me All Night Long” band 5 Apiphobe’s
phobia
9 “I __ confused” 13 Wintry mess 14 Sole
15 Mountain cat 16 *Frying pans
anyone can use? 18 “Oh, please!” 19 Revealing session on Reddit, for short 20 Christmas song 21 Shrimp and __ 22 *Group that attends Mass together every week? 25 Treeless plain 28 Districts
29 Like some
dental floss 30 Shortcomings 32 “The Last O.G.”
network 35 Bother 36 *Discussion about what fruit to bake for dessert?
38 In the style of 39 Spoil
40 Man of many
words?
41 Wild beasts also called wildebeests 42 Water filter
brand
44 Some surprise
hits
46 *Fitting motto for Pisa’s tower keeper?
49 Big name in
applesauce 50 Tirade
51 Bath mother 54 Way off 55 *Devil on one’s
shoulder? 58 “What __ say?” 59 Catholic leader 60 Old Dodges 61 URL starter 62 Spy-fi country 63 Decisive defeat,
and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues
DOWN
1 Grad
2 Gloria Estefan’s
birthplace
3 ISP option 4 “Things’ll turn around, you’ll see”
5 Showed respect,
in a way 6 Sherlock’s sister, per a 2020
Netflix film 7 Caribou kin
8 Pt. of GPS 9 “Just Putting It Out There” comedian Nancherla 10 Score keeper? 11 Patti known as
the “Godmother of Punk”
12 Clods
13 Place for
pampering
17 Ice cream holder 21 Word in many Wi-Fi network names
22 Intel collector 23 Luxury vessel 24 La __ Tar Pits 25 Did the
breaststroke, e.g. 26 “Voilà!” 27 Outrageous, as a
price
30 Like the Beyond
Burger
31 Curling surface 33 Sad
34 Back talk 36 Noses around 37 Wee bit 41 Negroni need 43 Family vacay,
perhaps 44 “Molto __!” 45 Had done, as a
portrait 46 Diet-friendly 47 Comes out, as an
album
48 __ tag 49 Namesake of a
speed ratio
51 List that may be accessed by scanning a QR code
52 One of a kind 53 Rx writers
55 PC core 56 Grammy winners
__ Lonely Boys 57 “As I see it”
shorthand