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
don’t want to
cross me”
35 Burj Khalifa’s fed. 37 Frog’s kid-lit
friend
38 “You’re it!”
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
55 18-Down units
58 Actor Neeson
62 “This doesn’t feel
right,” and what can be said about some letters in the answers to the starred clues? 66 Intense anger 67 Birthplace of the
violin
68 Darjeeling, for
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 Donkey 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
23 Pronoun-shaped
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 ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
40 2021 documentary 57 Slugger Alonso
about actor Kilmer nicknamed “Polar 41 Taunt Bear”
44 Funds for a rainy 59 Whit
day 60 Not many 47 Market section 61 Degs. for
49 Introductory ballerinas
course 62 Uno e uno e uno 51 Jane Fonda’s 63 “I’ve been __!”
alma mater 64 “Moonlight” 53 Starchy luau dish Oscar winner 56 Award related to Mahershala
a Tony 65 Manhattan liquor