LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Underground areas explored by spelunkers 6 Car-buying necessity, for many
10 Degs. for some
entrepreneurs 14 Stuffy “Me too” 15 Competent 16 Noble rank above
viscount
17 Stuck in the muck 18 French champagne brand
19 “Well, would you
look at that!” 20 Make a polite visit 23 “__ whiz!”
24 Runs easily with
long strides 27 False start punishment, in football
34 County Clare’s
nat.
35 Internet letters 36 “The Banana Boat Song” opener
37 Trails behind 39 Color TV pioneer 40 “Barbie” actor Liu 41 La __: Real
Madrid’s division 42 Frank on the grill 45 Naught 46 Incredibly hard
to hold
49 Photo app filter
shade
50 Time period often named for a monarch 51 Celebratory shout heard before “Auld Lang Syne” is played, and an apt title for this puzzle?
58 Crèche trio 61 Moisturizer brand 62 Missouri River
tributary 63 Minnesota representative Ilhan
64 Junction point 65 Spoke wildly 66 Sheepherding pig
in a 1995 film 67 Smack
68 Austin Powers
player Mike
DOWN
1 Training __: NFL preseason practice time
2 Tibet’s continent 3 “Your mileage
may __”
4 Come to light 5 Judgmental
glance 6 Bedside light 7 Double-reed
woodwind 8 Actor Guinness 9 Invasive plants with stinging hairs 10 Note-worthy
purchases? 11 Green __,
Wisconsin
12 Escort’s offering 13 Devious
21 Tailor’s line of
stitches 22 Freight weight 25 “Seinfeld” character who worked for Pendant Publishing 26 Really frustrate 27 Jam-packs 28 Vowel-shaped
track segments 29 Carrot or celery,
informally
30 Not so common 31 Hazardous 32 Initial strategy 33 “__ be sorry!” 38 Blue gem 42 Some cards in the
board game Clue 43 “Now it’s clear!” 44 Overly catchy
song
47 Actress Zadora 48 Come out against 52 Furrow former 53 When tripled, phrase spoken by 25-Down
54 No, in Russian 55 Icicle site 56 Ripening agent 57 Cincinnati MLB
team
58 Unruly crowd
59 GP’s gp.
60 Chitchat
Libra (Sept.23-Oct. 23). Piecing a story together? You make sense of information received.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Regretting a hastily