LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Acrobat format
4 Mumford & Sons instrument
9 __ school
13 Non opposite
14 Burmese or Lao
15 Trading floor order
16 *Players who cover wide receivers
19 Part of a winesap or a wineglass
20 Major headache
21 Actress Shawkat
24 Pals
28 *Film fanatic
33 Uttered
34 “... because you don’t want to cross me”
35 Burj Khalifa’s fed.
37 Frog’s kid-lit friend
38 “You’re it!”
39 *Black Friday slogan
42 Go green, say?
43 Gay __
45 GQ or EW 46 Pampers product
48 Chimney ducts
50 *Couple in the honeymoon phase
52 Plays matchmaker for
54 Greek war god
55 18-Down units
58 Actor Neeson
62 “This doesn’t feel right,” and what can be said about some letters in the answers to the starred clues?
66 Intense anger
67 Birthplace of the violin
68 Darjeeling, for one
69 Neither calm nor collected
70 Like some foggy nights
71 Cribside chorus
DOWN
1 Vanilla units
2 Piece for two
3 Marching band pipe
4 Block
5 Donkey
6 Hawaiian island whose population was
84 in the 2020 census
7 Cup of joe
8 Snack machine inserts
9 Old Testament collection
10 Lengthy register printout from CVS
11 Mammals also known as wapiti
12 Letters from a polite texter
17 Message in Outlook
18 Org. with sashes and badges
22 On sale, say
23 Pronoun-shaped girder
25 Favorable optics, for short
26 Approved
27 Passover rituals
28 Recurring themes
29 Soothsayer
30 Ride the couch
31 Fire, in Spanish
32 British Invasion adjective
36 Arctic Circle duck
40 2021 documentary about actor Kilmer
41 Taunt
44 Funds for a rainy day
47 Market section
49 Introductory course
51 Jane Fonda’s alma mater
53 Starchy luau dish
56 Award related to a Tony
57 Slugger Alonso nicknamed “Polar Bear”
59 Whit
60 Not many
61 Degs. for
ballerinas
62 Uno e uno e uno
63 “I’ve been __!”
64 “Moonlight” Oscar winner Mahershala
65 Manhattan liquor