LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Maybe less”

7 “I could use a hand!” 11 Bioengineering letters

14 Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province

15 U.S. citizen

16 Say no to 17 Formal induction ceremony for a league of pickpockets? 19 Unreturned serve 20 Hathaway of “The Intern” 21 Forest female 22 “Amsterdam” novelist Ian 24 “Stay” singer

Lisa

26 Dos y dos y dos 27 Bicycles and aviation, notably? 33 Shot in the dark 34 Hardly well 35 Compete (for) 36 MLB Triple

Crown category 37 Hard to clean 39 __ of thumb 40 British ref. work 41 Soft French cheese

42 Boot bottoms 43 Tax advice for slugger Aaron Judge?

47 From Denver to Topeka

48 Puerto __ 49 Houston WNBA team until 2008 52 iPhone platform 53 Westminster spot for art lovers 57 Mimic

58 “That tracks,” and an apt description of 17-, 27-, and 43-Across? 61 Abolish 62 Cologne ingredient

63 Acid artist

64 Over the hill 65 Flight sked figs. 66 Kind of oil used in hummus

DOWN

1 Woman who says “Play it, Sam” in “Casablanca”

2 Babe in the woods? 3 Slender

4 Sure to fail 5 D’backs, in box scores 6 Warmhearted 7 Fabled napper 8 Former Abbey Road Studios owner

9 “Maybe I’ll have better luck”

10 Exact

11 Chew like a beaver

12 Flaky mineral 13 Rice paddy plow team

18 Mongolian desert 23 Inexact fig. 25 Yelps of pain 26 Fancy pillowcase 27 One floating down a river or speeding down a snowy slope 28 Gardner of “Saturday Night Live”

29 Heartache

30 Soft palate projection 31 Boneless cut 32 Charges

33 Get taller 37 Completely disgust

38 Divide

39 Branch of engineering whose name was coined by Asimov

41 “No clue”

42 Min. fraction 44 Concert purchase 45 Stepped

46 Shows disapproval, in a way

6/8/23 49 Mexican resort, familiarly

50 Milky birthstone

51 Stitch up

52 Color printer refills

54 Turkish title of honor

55 The other side 56 French 101 verb

59 Olympics chant 60 Short way to go?

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