LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sport played on horseback
5 Make fun of 9 Goes up
14 Bibliography
abbreviation
15 Furniture chain that also sells lingonberry preserves
16 Feeling of existential boredom
17 *Sincere intention to be fair
20 Sight or smell
21 Granny
22 Some Wall St. deals
23 Joan of __: French heroine
25 Pampering place
27 *One who can’t help but see the bright side
36 Assignment for a swimmer or a bowler
37 Ore deposit
38 Beat
39 Chicago winter hrs.
40 Central
Pennsylvania city
42 Luv
43 Go-to crew
45 Salad fish
46 Stud farm stud
47 *Private fashion consultant
50 Sunflower St. school
51 __-pitch softball
52 See 64-Down
55 Biblical ark builder
59 Songs for two
63 Reason for a courtroom objection, and what the start of the answer to each starred clue has
66 Silly activity
67 Red gemstone
68 Writer Bombeck
69 “Let’s Make a Deal” host Brady
70 Unworried state
71 “Whoa, trippy!”
DOWN
1 Green animals in Angry Birds
2 Slender woodwind
3 Zebra hunter
4 “There’s a nonzero chance ... ”
5 Coastal inlet
6 Comparable (to)
7 Oscar winner Catherine __Jones
8 Journalist Paula
9 NFL official
10 Fill with passion
11 __ appeal 12 Currency named
for a continent
13 Follows an obedience school command
18 Houseplant with fronds
19 Sunup direction
24 Match a bet, in poker
26 Bread served with hummus
27 Rock formation in Yosemite, familiarly
28 Have a spoonful, say
29 “The door’s open!”
30 Led Zeppelin’s “Whole __ Love”
31 Near-beer name
32 Lowly workers
33 Reply to “Ya dig?”
34 18-Down seed
35 Copier cartridge
40 Songwriter Tori
41 Slangy turndowns
44 Welcomed at the door
46 Mouthed (off)
48 Former Georgia senator Sam
49 Bygone GM line
52 Imperfection
53 “Chocolat” actress Olin
54 Like Cheerios
56 Mythical menace
57 Teal shade
58 Busy airports
60 Ireland, to the Irish
61 Heavy book
62 Simple fastener
64 With
52-Across, floating Arctic sheet
65 Potato spot