LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Comment accompanying a dismissive hand wave

7 Tucked in 11 Hotel hallway

sign 14 Automaker with

a six-star logo 15 Serving aid

16 Not talking 17 *Game delay prevented by a chess clock? 19 WNBA player,

e.g.

20 Message near a

candy bowl 21 Campus group 22 Cartoon supplier of giant anvils

25 Pac-12 school in

L.A.

26 Dull repetition 27 *“Has anyone found our pigeon?” 32 Aveeno grain 33 IPO launchers 34 Norse god of war 35 European capital 37 Pet collar

attachments 41 Boxers Laila and

Muhammad 43 Robot

attachment? 44 With it 45 *Completely hooked on swearing by a Roman god? 49 Out of the wind 50 Celery stalk 51 Scrutinized 52 Face off in the

ring

53 Single, for one 56 Cantina

condiment 57 1981 Top 10 hit for Soft Cell, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues? 61 Versatile

blackjack card 62 Carrie-__ Moss

of “Jessica Jones” 63 Brought up 64 Scratch, e.g. 65 Space race

initials 66 Produces, as an

heir

DOWN

1 Sugar suffix 2 Enemy in

“Mulan” 3 Agenda

placeholder 4 Bikini top option 5 Field of study 6 Mastodon

feature 7 Max

8 Prefix with

dilator or scope 9 Gutter spot 10 Turn red, say 11 “Whose Line

Is It Anyway?” technique 12 Parish figure 13 Put on quite an

act

18 Whoville creator 21 “Down in __!” 22 AFB truant

23 __ latte

24 Team whose first manager was Casey Stengel 28 Gut bacteria 29 Column style 30 Official order 31 Sassy retort 36 The “B” of RBG 38 Cry to a matey 39 Buckle 40 Went 60 in a 50,

say

42 Pushes to the

limit

43 “Sounds about

right” 45 Llamalike

mammal

46 Card holder? 47 Former CEO profiled in the book “DisneyWar” 48 Flight risk? 49 Black tea variety 53 Prohibitions 54 Window box

plant

55 Produit de la tête 57 Letter between sigma and upsilon 58 Valuable deposit 59 Confirm the

credentials of, say 60 Newsroom VIPs