LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Arabic for “tower” 5 Hermana de la
madre
8 “Skip me”
13 State with Blue
Jackets
14 Like bald tires 16 Pastry in a pink box, in Los Angeles 17 Condiment often served with egg rolls
19 “Drop it!” 20 Extremely steep 21 Circle or square 23 Kings, on NBA
scoreboards
24 Queen Latifah’s
genre
26 National
Pickleball mo. 27 Tined utensil 28 Loops in
discreetly 31 News letters 33 Works for
35 NPR host Glass 36 Budget beef cuts 39 Cute nickname
for a fuzzy pet 41 Reach new
heights? 42 Vegetables that rank high on the Scoville scale 44 “Yo,” in Rio
45 Get a feeling 46 Go “vroom vroom” 47 Hideous
48 Blow off steam 49 Animal house? 51 Triage ctrs. 53 Rough
calculation, briefly 54 Burdensome 56 Website with customizable RSVP options 60 Performance
platform 62 Cafeteria combat epitomized by the actions in
17-, 36-, and 42-Across?
64 Ski equipment 65 Inner Hebrides
isle
66 Fly high
67 Church nooks 68 Proterozoic or
Hadean 69 “Voyage to India” singer India.__
DOWN
1 Figures, casually 2 “Nope”
3 Sushi roll
ingredient
4 Wild cards?
5 JFK hotel named for a defunct airline
6 Chits
7 Ancient
8 Waste time
9 “The Raven” poet 10 Celery topped with peanut butter and raisins 11 Day of the Dead
symbol
12 Market share? 15 Semimonthly tide 18 Mexican Mrs. 22 Save for later, in
a way
25 “Gimme a break” 27 Available
28 “Back to the
Future” bully 29 Port of call 30 Wheels away? 32 Juicer discard 34 Dune buggies,
e.g.: Abbr. 36 Lids offerings 37 Artist whose name is a homophone of a sculpture medium 38 Fix, as a dog 40 Dog-eared, say 43 Get a rise out of 47 Document from an Amer. embassy 48 Milanese moped 50 Bumblers 52 WNBA official 54 Collectible toy
truck brand 55 Toy with an Eiffel
Tower trick 57 Rangers goalie
Shesterkin 58 Pad see ew
cuisine
59 Raison d’__
61 “Golly!”
63 Room for movie
night