LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Slightest

6 Knocks 10 Delicacy

14 Sign of autumn

15 Arizona’s __ Fria

river

16 Fish-eating duck

17 Wet one? 19 “Veep” Emmy

winner Tony 20 Parisian

possessive 21 Streaming service acquired

by Fox in 2020

22 Seating request 23 Day one?

27 Big name in

game shows 28 Lack of practice,

metaphorically

29 Fashion’s Oscar

__ Renta

30 Last of the

Oldsmobiles

32 CDS with three or

four songs

35 Air Force one?

39 Sun spot

40 Made a choice

41 “You’re so right!”

42 Two piece? 43 Tribute creator 45 Number one?

50 Leave red-faced

51 Senator Booker 52 Like steak tartare 55 Astronaut Christina who spent 328 days in space

56 Cellular one? 59 Art Deco master 60 Hebrides isle 61 More than most 62 Sgts. and cpls. 63 “Guardians of

the Galaxy”

filmmaker James 64 Sees

DOWN

1 Some bus. entities 2 Word with a harp on some euro coins

3 In a really bad way

4 “__ Lanka Matha”:

South Asian national anthem 5 Mystical Hindu

text

6 Shabbat services

leader 7 Over

8 Crawl space?

9 For example

10 Cafepress

purchase

11 Pile up 12 Instrument with

an end pin

13 Many a middle

schooler 18 Goopy buildup 22 Storyteller credited with the fable “The Wolf and the Crane” 24 California town with an annual music festival 25 Avarice 26 Contented rumble 27 Go for

29 MLB sluggers

who don’t play

the field

30 Is __: likely will

31 Wireless

standard initials 32 Nightmarish

movie location 33 Ada Limón, for

one

34 RR stop

36 Sectional, e.g. 37 Cartel HQ’D in

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38 Armitage of “Big 48 NCAA school

Little Lies” with the most 42 Quick races first-round WNBA 43 Una y __ vez: draft picks Spanish for “time 49 “Dunkirk” director after time” Christopher 44 Guest room 53 Land parcel

piece 54 __ and

45 Spoken for wherefores

46 Multiple-choice 56 Generous

choices 57 Marker

47 Blade for a 58 New Deal energy

hobbyist prog.