LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mamba kin

6 Peak

10 Some Dada

pieces

14 Cover name

15 __ and proper 16 Exactly 17 “Fingers crossed!” 19 Theater award 20 Art Institute of Chicago area, with “the” 21 “Come with me,

Spot!”

22 Slightly ahead 23 One with pointy ears and pointy shoes

24 Actress Thurman 25 Unintentionally

reply all, say 27 Longtime

NASCAR sponsor 28 Denial

30 Miserly desire 32 Egg layer 33 Catchy pitch 34 Flour used for

naan and paratha 37 “We card” cards,

for short 38 Novelists Patchett

and Petry 39 Grand

42 Open __ night 44 Furry toy spiders that move when screamed at 45 Kansas home of McConnell Air Force Base 49 Capitol Hill fig. 50 Actor who played Clubber Lang in “Rocky III” 51 Annoy

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53 Elba of “Cats” 55 Tirade

57 Floor model 58 Murmurs lovingly 59 Midday hiatus illustrated three times in this puzzle

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__ Sea 62 Juvenile outburst? 63 Join

64 Mother of Castor

and Pollux

65 __ Spunkmeyer 66 Did well together

DOWN

1 Square dance

figure

2 Fútbol cheer 3 Removed with

RQH·V FKRPSHUV 4 Abrasive tool 5 Bat wood

6 Legal challenge 7 Manitoba

people 8 Deceives

9 Genre with introspective lyrics

10 On

11 Endorse without

reading, say 12 Makeshift storage container for brushes 13 Becomes more

inclined?

18 “That sounds

rough!”

22 River through

Orsk

24 Employ

26 Trailer park

parkers, for short 29 Ryder rival 31 “Stiff” and “Bonk”

writer Mary 33 Contribute 34 Out of the

ordinary 35 “Sister Carrie”

novelist Dreiser 36 E-ZPass stretch,

say

37 Educate 40 Virtual citizens in

a video game 41 __ Lingus 42 Levity

43 “Eww!” 45 Flinches 46 Happy cry from someone who finally deciphers a Magic Eye picture 47 Salsa ingredient 48 No longer asleep 54 Cuba, por ejemplo 56 Years, in Rome 57 Spy-fi villain in a

Nehru jacket 59 Southeast Asian

language 60 Software glitch