LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Caught wind of 6 Helpless? 10 French friends 14 Get along 15 Rotten to the
core
16 Fender flaw 17 Tap options? 19 Disney princess whose gown is adorned with snowflakes 20 “I’m so dumb!” 21 Lessen, as
pressure 23 Slumber party
wear, for short 25 Poker options? 28 Time-stamp
component 30 Like oyster
shooters
31 90° from sur 32 Start of many
long weekends 35 Academic figure 37 Flower options? 41 German automaker once owned by General Motors 42 Emotional
baggage 45 Hawk’s claw 49 __ Speedwagon 51 Upgrade a gravel
driveway, say 52 Mouth options? 56 SoCal airport 57 Big citrus 58 Lipstick mishap 60 Luminescence 61 Boxing options? 66 Forearm bone 67 Field of study 68 Huevos rancheros condiment 69 Overly
inquisitive 70 Baking amt. 71 Fix, as text
DOWN
1 Scoffer’s laugh 2 Psychoanalysis
subject
3 Like one who can really draw a crowd? 4 Audition (for) 5 “Tree of Smoke”
novelist Johnson 6 Pie chart slice 7 Ab __: from the
beginning 8 Short, for short 9 Of yesteryear 10 “__ Fideles” 11 Wild brawls 12 Slight
13 Rice, in some
cuisine
18 “I’m so dumb!” 22 Mortal lover of Aphrodite and Persephone 23 Common email
attachment 24 Preserves
preserver 26 Imitates a
penguin 27 Wowed
29 Part of a 35-Across’s address 33 Lacking a
musical key 34 Terrier’s bark 36 “Midsommar”
filmmaker Aster 38 Unhip type 39 Uncanny ability,
for short
40 Job for an actor playing identical twins, say 43 “Hadestown” Tony nominee Noblezada 44 Possible reason
for an R rating 45 1986 movie partly filmed at San Diego’s Air Station Miramar 46 “The Trials of __”: Rick Riordan series based on Greek myths 47 Small citrus 48 Like freeway
ramps
50 “Nice burn!” 53 Greet silently 54 Actress Thurman 55 On edge 59 “Ferrari” actor
Driver
62 Scepter top 63 Director
Anderson
64 Gp. featured in
45-Down 65 Skosh