LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS

1 Broke off, as

talks

6 Retired flier

9 Lola’s nightclub,

in song

13 To a degree,

informally

14 Lyndon Johnson

girl beagle

15 Breakfast sizzler 16 Antidote fraud that doesn’t come from a duck?

18 Northeast

express train

19 Swipe

20 Pub with suds and entertainment

22 Jog or racing gait 24 Caught in the act 25 Bat’s home

28 Social media barrage that doesn’t come from a bird?

33 German river

34 Gets really high 35 Asian language 36 Director

Wertmüller

37 Rock gp. sometimes joined by Young 38 __ stick: bouncing

toy

39 Wide shoe spec 40 “When I Need You” singer

Leo

42 Hunchbacked

lab assistant

43 Voguish term that doesn’t come from a bee?

46 Daly of

“Judging Amy”

47 Three-vowel

African river

48 Bit of bickering 50 Military

“pineapples”

54 Wikipedia

policy

57 Archaeological

find

58 Fabric made from tree exteriors that doesn’t come from a dog?

61 __ worse than

death

62 Downed

63 Arm bones

64 Ho Chi __ City

65 “Sure”

66 Certain NCOs

DOWN

1

Letters on a law office door

2 We, to one who

says “oui”

3 “Dang!” 4 And so on

5 Senegal’s capital 6 Moo __ pork

7 Balkan native

8 Certain surgeon’s

“patient”

9 Prestige

10 Cousteau’s field 11 Gallup specialty 12 Fastidious to a

fault

15 Exposes

17 Thickens, as

cream

21 Approximate

nos.

23 Like a good-sized

garage

25 People focus, for

short

26 “Bye” that’s bid 27 Caracas native

29 Snap course 30 Writer

Hemingway

31 Make fun of

32 Mandy of “This Is

Us”

38 Traps for the

unwary

40 Lawn tool

storage building 41 Sign again

44 Highest point

45 “Peyton __”

49 Concentrate

50 Fat unit

51 Bank offering,

briefly

52 “Buy It Now” site 53 Fill to the max

55 Bell sound

56 PDQ, in the ER

59 Sales agent

60 Cock and bull