LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Intro courses?
5 Female turkeys
9 Features of some islands
14 Attract
15 Lotion ingredient
16 Sleeper’s rumble
17 Mascot who pursued the Hamburglar
20 Dutch cheese
21 Right at sea?
22 So last year
23 Mascot with a goatee and a string tie
28 Flying fig.
29 Carve up a black diamond?
30 Currier and __
31 Entreaty
33 Shade tree
35 Service charge
36 Mascot “born in
the Sea of Milk”
41 Choice indicators
42 English pronoun
43 Excursion
45 Océano contents
47 “Sorta”
49 Estadio cheer
50 Mascot who says, “I want to eat your cereal!”
55 Samantha Bee’s
former network
56 Calgary summer hrs.
57 Left at sea?
58 Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given?
64 With 40-Down, legal scholar played by Kerry Washington in HBO’s “Confirmation”
65 Past regulation, briefly
66 Smooch in a lift
67 Cat collar dangler
68 Affixes a patch, say
69 Hushed “Hey!”
DOWN
1 Verb on a dipstick 2 Paid intro?
3 Protected, in a way
4 Greta Thunberg, notably
5 Ones who work with bowlers and boaters
6 Yalie
7 Super stars
8 “Buh-bye!”
9 Govt. stipend
10 Dutch banking giant with an orange lion logo
11 “I give!”
12 Alison in the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame
13 Chip off the old flock?
18 Sonata and Cadenza
19 “__-Hur”
23 Missing segment
24 Spanish pronoun
25 Singer/activist Downs
26 French Lord
27 __ planner
32 Affaire de coeur
34 NYC FC’s org.
35 Just-brewed carafes of coffee, e.g.
37 Kirkuk’s country
38 Smart
39 Salad topping
40 See 64-Across
44 Storied cause of royal insomnia
45 Radio setting
46 Like the streets in some period pieces
48 Nocturnal call
51 Strike caller
52 Elba of “The Suicide Squad”
53 Curling target
54 Brittle
55 Taiwan’s first female president
59 “When do u get in?”
60 Old futon problem
61 Lower a pitch?
62 Figs.
63 “__ Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”