LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Otherwise
occupied 5 “Checkmate!” 9 Concert gear 13 “__ upon a midnight dreary ...” 14 Origami bird 15 Henhouse
16 “¡__ mío!” 17 Rabbit kin 18 Color of unbleached linen
19 Dinner and drinks with a preacher? 22 Actor Jeong 23 “Quite so” 24 Move, roots
and all 26 Thousands of years, for a megalith?
31 __ Diego
34 CNN anchor
Burnett
35 Brain teaser aid 36 Bouillon cube
maker 38 “Queen __”: pop music nickname
40 Big fetes 41 Quechua
speaker 42 Nonpayment
risk, for short 44 Squalid digs 45 Exam for a certificate in mediation? 50 “Same!”
51 Titter
55 Golf ball
position
57 Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have?
60 Gumbo pod 62 Miso soup base 63 Possess
64 Ray
65 Like some rural roads at night
66 Rid of wrinkles 67 “__ there, tiger” 68 Poems of praise 69 Ice cream brand with a birthday cake flavor
DOWN
1 __ Tree: place of enlightenment in Buddhist tradition 2 Collective bargaining group
3 Give a good
talking-to 4 “Okay, I get it” 5 Country where
Farsi is spoken 6 New Orleans
voting district 7 Like challenging
pushups
8 Lipton rival 9 Royal flush card 10 Nojito and nada
colada, for two 11 Sweat outlet 12 Like some silk
or sugar 14 Garment similar to a hijab
20 Parking post 21 Short music
releases
25 Job safety org. 27 Bit of cacao 28 Month before
febrero
29 Little pest 30 Site with handmade crafts
31 Omit 32 Actress Hathaway 33 Sign at some museums 37 Sack __ 39 Thus far 40 “Check it out” 43 Watch the
birdie?
46 UFO beings 47 Tegan and
Sara, for one 48 “Independence Day” director Emmerich 49 Computer pro 52 Stockpile 53 Diplomat 54 Perfect places
55 Ear part 56 Store whose packages typically contain Allen keys 58 Archipelago
part
59 __ end up 61 Sedaris of “The Mandalorian”