LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Handy tension reliever
11 Kick back
15 “Aww!”
16 Fair
17 Places for posers
18 Banh mi spread
19 Nonsense
20 Fabric types
21 Racer with a crew
22 Pasture mom
24 Exchange membership
25 Trumpet
26 Guiding lights?
28 Leaves on the sly
30 Pub order
31 Architectural deets
33 Omission indications
35 In
37 Instrument akin to an oud
38 Bucolic
42 From then on
45 Tony-winning playwright Ensler
46 Prepare to show some muscle
48 Pets
50 From around here
52 One way to start
54 Reason to go green?
55 Desktop assortment
56 Software to debug
58 Very long time
59 “Pretty please?”
60 Let others talk
62 Inserts, say
63 Event necessitated by a move, perhaps
64 Bridge site
65 “Why the
tears?”
DOWN
1 Moving multitudes
2 Speakers often clear them
3 Dilapidated digs
4 Space-saving abbr.
5 La Jolla scientific research institute namesake
6 Medical procedures
7 Keeps occupied
8 On the line
9 MRI technician’s request
10 “__ Djinns”: Franck symphonic poem
11 Century 21 rival
12 Ambitious track wagers
13 See-through device
14 Piccolo sounds
21 Confident response after being doubted
23 Straight up
27 Underwater groups
29 __-size
32 Homepod Mini voice
34 Diagonally cut pasta
36 Vine fruit that can be dried and used as a container
38 Smoothie King Center NBAER
39 California state fruit
40 Duel personalities
41 Some sleep on it
43 Mall features
44 “Ta-da!”
47 Watched a boxer, say
49 Matched, as movie sound and action
51 Star __: five-spice ingredient
53 Juice amounts?
57 Word before “A Lady” or “A Woman,” in two old Top 10 songs
60 Bench for a flock
61 Spanish pronoun