LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Designing

Women” co-star 6 Constellation

critter

10 “Might as well”

hashtag

14 Watch part

15 Got down to

business 17 Botanical opening 18 Auto-graph? 19 Salmorejo base 21 Going around in

circles, say 22 German

conjunction 23 “Encanto” uncle 25 Some peaceful

protests 27 Comment before “He was dead the whole time,” hopefully

30 Salt component 31 Finest form 32 Morally bankrupt 36 Cooks up

38 Ayesha Rascoe’s

network 39 4-Down quality 40 Informal gettogether

41 Pool units 43 Langston Hughes

Library designer 44 “Let me recover

from that”

48 Tears it up on the

slopes

50 Stage

51 Cable abbr. 52 Knob-handled

tools

54 “Ish”

57 Mane squeezes? 60 Serving a

purpose 61 Paws-itive

homebody? 62 Cliffside town

west of Málaga 63 Squad

64 Like freshly

moisturized skin 65 Bad look

DOWN

1 Soft call 2 Inflatable pilot in

“Airplane!”

3 Ska instruments 4 Wheat-free soy

sauce

5 Flippers?

6 Women of Troy’s

sch.

7 Rihanna’s “As __

as You and Me” 8 Time out in the

park?

9 Barbie owner? 10 Fashion house co-founded by Pierre Bergé 11 “Love that for

you!”

12 Cuts for Canadian-style bacon

13 News stand? 16 Filmmaker

Jackson

20 Donor type,

briefly

24 Part of a halftime snack for many a soccer player 26 Article

27 Bros, e.g. 28 Toner target 29 Totally psyched 33 Part of a heart-toheart exchange 34 “You convinced

me”

35 Trap collection 37 Sound like a fan 39 Performances that might earn major props? 42 Grounded birds 45 “Swell” 46 Part of PEI

47 Big name in salt 48 Dazzled 49 Passport

producer 51 Narrow peninsula 53 Leaves on the

side

55 Tavern adjective 56 Cause of quakes 58 Hebrew for “day” 59 Total mess