LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Representative 6 Comets, to some 11 “Pow!”
14 Like some
opposites 15 Manuscript sheet 16 Single
17 Farmer’s tan?
19 Ill. neighbor 20 Save for later 21 “Lonely Planet”
recommendation 23 Skewer
24 Buzz
28 “I __ to say it,
but ... ”
29 Org. with complex
schedules
30 Battle hymn?
33 “u crack me up” 35 Purple Heart
recipients
36 Copa locale 38 Shaggy ox
39 One handing out cigars in a waiting room, perhaps
45 Winner’s gesture
49 Don rose-colored
glasses?
51 Pinch
52 Beyoncé’s
“Cadillac Records” role 53 High-and-mighty
sort
54 Aquarium growth 55 Piehole
58 Rapper Kendrick who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 60 JFK-to-Tokyo
carrier
61 Added panache, as was done three times in this
puzzle?
66 Some NIH grant
recipients 67 Seized items 68 Acrobatic
69 Make a fast stop? 70 “Is that my cue?”
71 “Woman With a Parasol” painter Claude
DOWN
1 PD advisory 2 Joins the big
leagues 3 High-and-mighty
sort
4 Worry
5 Square root of
nueve
6 Askew 7 Disheveled do 8 “Boola Boola”
collegian
9 At hand
10 Only fair
11 Orser’s rival in the “Battle of the Brians” at the 1988 Winter Olympics 12 Actress Bening 13 Collages of
songs
18 “Well, hey there!” 22 Mavens
23 Title for Andy
Murray 25 Common name
of Taxus baccata 26 Green gp. 27 Poetic adverb 30 Go downhill 31 Not bold
32 Hard to handle 34 Penny-pinching 37 Bow (out) 39 Warmup time 40 Domed hall 41 Stay longer
than
42 Relaxed sounds 43 Stock room?
44 Big bother 46 Like many state
mottoes 47 Regulation that restricts discussion 48 Org. with Thunder and Heat 50 Up to the task 54 “¡Mi hombre!” 56 Alt-rock band Better Than __ 57 Not us 59 Scott of
“Severance” 62 Initials in the
news 63 Menagerie 64 Retail channel 65 Gently stroke