LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Kid’s parent 5 Rebecca in the Basketball Hall of Fame
9 Texter’s “I don’t understand”
13 Actor Omar 14 Hyaluronic __ 15 Frost
16 Zevk, literally 19 Early ISP 20 Fictional sleuth Wolfe
21 Egyptian cobra 22 St. __: Cornwall town
24 Bise, literally 28 Sought out for advice
30 Part of a vague ultimatum
31 Pianist Rubinstein 32 Philistine
35 Make a bad impression? 36 Cangkir, literally 39 Reserve
42 Noshes
43 Vigilant 47 Marquee time 49 Plays loudly 50 Quando, literally 54 Sails off course 55 “You __ do this!”
56 Some ballpark figs.
57 Dust jacket paragraph
58 La lluvia, literally 63 Humdinger 64 Element used in a 5-Down 65 Dressed 66 Ancient Briton 67 Some digital natives, informally 68 Moral lapses
DOWN
1 Move past, as a breakup
2 Luxurious
3 Car loan fig. 4 Judgy sound 5 Lithography tool 6 Prehistoric paint colour
7 Compete for, in a way
8 First word of the European Union anthem’s title
9 Taken suddenly 10 Group celebration after a game-winning play, say
11 Slangy agreement
12 B.A. Baracus player
17 Recon collection 18 Cowardly Lion portrayer
19 Big name in speakers
23 Longing for change, maybe 25 “Downton Abbey” countess played by Elizabeth McGovern
26 Tax form digits 27 All ready 29 Capote nickname 32 Fluffy wrap 33 Again and again, in verse 34 Fresh-squeezed drinks, for short 37 Hammer end 38 Actor Kilmer 39 FYI kin
40 __ and aah 41 Like yeast 44 Horse breed that originated on an Asian peninsula 45 Goes back to the start
46 Exxon, in Canada and Europe 48 Jukebox musical whose first number is “Nutbush City Limits”
49 “Porgy and __”
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51 “Judy” star Zellweger
52 Hunter slain by Artemis
53 2004 World Series MVP Ramirez 58 Indulgent attention, for short 59 Shade
60 Gerund syllable 61 IBMs, e.g. 62 Former boxer Laila