LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Acrobat format 4 Mumford & Sons

instrument

9 __ school

13 Non opposite 14 Burmese or Lao 15 Trading floor order 16 *Players who cover wide receivers

19 Part of a winesap

or a wineglass 20 Major headache 21 Actress Shawkat 24 Pals

28 *Film fanatic 33 Uttered

34 “... because you GRQ·W ZDQW WR cross me”

%XUM .KDOLID·V IHG )URJ·V NLG OLW friend

´

39 *Black Friday

slogan

42 Go green, say? 43 Gay __

45 GQ or EW 46 Pampers product 48 Chimney ducts 50 *Couple in the honeymoon phase

52 Plays

matchmaker for 54 Greek war god

'RZQ XQLWV

58 Actor Neeson ´7KLV GRHVQ·W IHHO right,” and what can be said about some letters in the answers to the starred clues? 66 Intense anger 67 Birthplace of the violin

'DUMHHOLQJ IRU one

69 Neither calm nor

collected

70 Like some foggy

nights

71 Cribside chorus

DOWN

1 Vanilla units 2 Piece for two 3 Marching band

pipe

4 Block

5 'RQNH\ 6 Hawaiian island whose population was 84 in the 2020 census 7 Cup of joe 8 Snack machine

inserts

9 Old Testament

collection 10 Lengthy register printout from

CVS

11 Mammals also

known as wapiti 12 Letters from a

polite texter 17 Message in

Outlook

18 Org. with sashes

and badges

22 On sale, say 3URQRXQ VKDSHG girder 25 Favorable optics,

for short 26 Approved 27 Passover rituals 28 Recurring

themes 29 Soothsayer 30 Ride the couch 31 Fire, in Spanish 32 British Invasion

adjective

36 Arctic Circle duck 40 2021 documentary

about actor Kilmer 41 Taunt

44 Funds for a rainy

day

47 Market section 49 Introductory course

-DQH )RQGD·V alma mater 53 Starchy luau dish 56 Award related to

a Tony 57 Slugger Alonso nicknamed “Polar Bear”

59 Whit

60 Not many

'HJV IRU ballerinas

62 Uno e uno e uno

´,·YH EHHQ BB µ

64 “Moonlight”

Oscar winner Mahershala 65 Manhattan liquor