LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Chess piece that’s often the first to be played 5 [I’m shocked!] 9 “I’m Every Woman” singer Chaka __
13 Gobi locale
14 “__ girl!”
15 Sweet sandwich 16 Junior
18 “No kidding!” 19 Black and blue,
say
20 Top
21 Stomach
22 Age of Attila’s
reign
26 Question that
introduces doubt 28 Writers McEwan
and Fleming 29 Pollen gatherer 30 Bagless vacuum
pioneer 31 Japanese box
lunch
33 Warning with a
URL
34 Like some Adventist Protestants
37 Ticklish Muppet 40 Came to light 41 Changes direction 45 Campground
inits.
46 Mashed avocado,
for short
47 Litter box user
48 Almost too late 52 Lucy of “Charlie’s
Angels”
53 Squander
54 Fingertipto-fingertip measurement
56 Chooses
58 Popular television programming block, and an apt title for this puzzle 60 Mojave landforms 61 Fencing sword 62 North __ Sea: lake fed by the Syr Darya river 63 Like a cereal bar 64 Opinion sampling 65 Govt.-issued IDs
DOWN
1 Gentle touch 2 San Francisco street crossing Haight
3 Arm pain from playing too much Nintendo
4 DEA agent 5 Bookstore section with Jeanette Winterson and Andrew Sean Greer
6 Tasted, quaintly 7 Get-go
8 Average
9 Target rival 10 Jacuzzis
11 Talk Like a Pirate
Day sounds
12 New prefix 15 Lower legs
17 Get by
18 Official approval 20 Rip into
21 Mars, for one
23 Clues
24 One who makes sure fighting between the Sharks and the Jets doesn’t get out of hand?
25 Archery wood
27 Average
31 Rip into 32 Cain’s oldest son 33 Russian “no”
35 Crows about 36 Disinclined (to) 37 __ out a living 38 “ur soooo funny!” 39 “I’m No Angel”
star
42 Oblong pastries 43 1988 Best
Picture
44 “The Simpsons”
disco guy 46 Knight’s tales 47 Wallop
49 Brief holiday? 50 Silent Marx
brother
51 Bay window 55 Education
advocacy gps. 56 Punk subgenre 57 Grassy
expanse
58 High spirits 59 High trains