LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ewes’ guys
5 Jazz great James 9 Term illustrated by
the starts of 39and 44-Across 14 Director Kazan
15 Some skinny
jeans
16 See 11-Down
17 __ paper: baking
layer
19 DuVernay film set
in Alabama 20 Diamond gems
22 Way, way off
23 Mood-stabilizing
hormone
25 Ante
28 Solidify
29 California’s Big __
30 Place for a stay
33 Souvlaki meat 35 Put away the
groceries? 37 Term illustrated by
the starts of 17and 20-Across
39 Outwit 41 Cybergiggle
43 Dirties
44 Package
46 Director Anderson
48 Symbol on the
Flash’s chest 49 Farm pen
50 Siete menos cinco
52 Cable channel
with a “superstar” wine club
54 Univ. aides 55 Initiates legal
action
58 Red outside,
maybe 61 Complex units 65 Watchdog breed
67 Cheaters 68 Kidney-related
69 “__ cost you!” 70 Bog fuel
71 Term illustrated
by parts of 61and 67-Across 72 Kenneth of
fashion
73 Dessert brand
DOWN
1 Default action,
briefly 2 “Einstein’s Dreams” novelist Lightman 3 Swampy land 4 Goldman __ 5 Target of some
bark beetles 6 Stay dry?
7 Core belief
8 Team that lost
the 2019 World Series to the Nationals
9 Some coll.
degrees
10 “Channel
Orange” Grammy winner Frank
11 With 16-Across, 9-, 37-, or 71-Across, for
any given hole 12 Writer Bombeck 13 2022, e.g. 18 Goes quickly 21 Slight
24 Mystery writer
Johansen
25 Falls heavily 26 Charged
27 __ board
30 “Canadian __”: “Weird Al” parody
of a Green Day
song
31 Nabisco wafer
brand
32 Mouse pads? 34 Tampa NFLer 36 Haul
38 Corddry of HBO’s
“Ballers”
40 Mani-__
42 “Time to bounce” 45 1970 Kinks hit 47 Sink on purpose 51 __ tank
53 “The
Emancipation of __”: Mariah Carey album 55 Prenatal 56 Took care of 57 ASU’s home 58 Red inside, maybe 59 SUNDVIK baby furniture retailer 60 __-pong 62 Requirement 63 Highchair surface 64 Retired jets 66 Flagon fill