LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Buckwheat
noodle
5 “Blam!”
10 Wander
14 AFB no-show
15 Sports venue
16 Profoundly bad
17 Baton-passing race with co-ed teams
19 Time in office
20 United
21 Desire
22 Second longest
African river
23 Go along with
25 Tennis star
Osaka
26 German white wine with a high sugar content
30 Jimmy Kimmel’s
network
31 Yardstick unit
32 Bruno, to Mirabel,
in “Encanto”
33 Now and __
36 Vision-correcting
surgery
38 Not very much 39 Slump
40 Iron-rich leafy
vegetable
41 Disc golf number
43 Start of
something great
47 Helps a thief,
maybe
48 Annual fact book
51 Bedroom noise
52 Wrinkly citrus fruit 53 Miracle-__:
fertilizer brand
54 Wide-eyed
55 Surprised shout when a spot on the wall starts moving, and what can be said about 17-, 26-, and 43-Across
58 Source of
inspiration
59 Connective tissue
60 Inky stain
61 Full collections
62 Coin flip call
63 __-serif
DOWN
1 Pago Pago’s land
2 In debt
3 Stocky dogs
4 Brewery order
5 Lesson one might get a kick out of?
6 “We __ amused”
7 Attack with
snowballs, say
8 “I’m __ roll!”
9 Route
10 Overhaul
11 Kitchen glove
12 Shenandoah
Valley state
13 Muppet who refers to himself in the third person
18 Socially inept sort
22 Yard sale
payment
24 Actor McGregor
25 Aids for airplane
napping
27 Like proofed
dough
28 Suffix on pasta
names
29 Supreme being
33 Vanilla extract
amt.
34 Rant 35 Confidence
builder
37 “Beef” actress
Wong
38 Painter’s
calculation
40 Toy for a windy
day
42 Confess
44 Joins the flow of
traffic
45 Had trouble
swallowing
46 Bassett who plays Marvel’s Queen Ramonda
49 Noble gas used
in welding
50 Is priced at
51 __ Club: bulkbuying chain
52 Annapolis military
sch.
55 “More or less”
suffix
56 Knotted
neckwear 57 Scale units:
Abbr.