LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Maybe less”
7 “I could use a hand!”
11 Bioengineering letters
14 Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province
15 U.S. citizen
16 Say no to
17 Formal induction ceremony for a league of pickpockets?
19 Unreturned serve
20 Hathaway of “The Intern”
21 Forest female
22 “Amsterdam” novelist Ian
24 “Stay” singer Lisa
26 Dos y dos y dos
27 Bicycles and aviation, notably?
33 Shot in the dark
34 Hardly well
35 Compete (for)
36 MLB Triple Crown category
37 Hard to clean
39 __ of thumb
40 British ref. work
41 Soft French cheese
42 Boot bottoms
43 Tax advice for slugger Aaron Judge?
47 From Denver to Topeka
48 Puerto __
49 Houston WNBA team until 2008
52 iPhone platform
53 Westminster spot for art lovers
57 Mimic
58 “That tracks,” and an apt description of 17-, 27-, and 43-Across?
61 Abolish
62 Cologne ingredient
63 Acid artist
64 Over the hill
65 Flight sked figs.
66 Kind of oil used in hummus
DOWN
1 Woman who says “Play it, Sam” in “Casablanca”
2 Babe in the woods? 3 Slender
4 Sure to fail
5 D’backs, in box scores
6 Warmhearted
7 Fabled napper
8 Former Abbey Road Studios owner
9 “Maybe I’ll have better luck”
10 Exact
11 Chew like a beaver
12 Flaky mineral
13 Rice paddy plow team
18 Mongolian desert
23 Inexact fig.
25 Yelps of pain
26 Fancy pillowcase
27 One floating down a river or speeding down a snowy slope
28 Gardner of “Saturday Night Live”
29 Heartache
30 Soft palate projection
31 Boneless cut
32 Charges
33 Get taller
37 Completely disgust 38 Divide
39 Branch of engineering whose name was coined by Asimov
41 “No clue”
42 Min. fraction
44 Concert purchase
45 Stepped
46 Shows disapproval, in a way 49 Mexican resort, familiarly 50 Milky birthstone
51 Stitch up
52 Color printer refills
54 Turkish title of honor
55 The other side
56 French 101 verb
59 Olympics chant
60 Short way to go?