L.A TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Not at all good 5 Piece-of-cake
shape
10 Tick off
14 Use a surgical
beam 15 Toward the
back
16 “What I Am”
singer Brickell 17 Welcome wind
on a hot day 19 First-rate 20 Grab greedily 21 Brought back to
mind 23 Migratory flying
formations 25 Dance move 26 Carrots’
partners 29 Dangerous tide 31 Airing in the
wee hours 35 Dr.’s orders 36 Successful
cryptographer 38 Diner
40 Cup handle 41 Not reactive, as
gases
42 “Best thing since” invention metaphor 45 Untruth 46 Walked with
purpose 47 Typical John Grisham subject
48 Back talk 49 Nervous
twitches 51 Retail center 53 Cigarette
stimulant 57 Staggered 61 Neutral shade 62 Pet without papers ... or what is literally found in the circled letters 64 Drop of sorrow 65 Oscar-winning
“Skyfall” singer 66 Family
babysitter 67 Attaches a
patch, say 68 Massenet
opera about a Spanish legend 69 Absolut rival
DOWN
1 O’Neill’s
“Desire Under the __” 2 Fruitless
3 Cuba, por
ejemplo
4 Some HD sets 5 Medal recipient 6 Poetic preposition before “now” or “long”
7 Animal on
XING signs 8 Long looks
9 __ set: building
toy
10 College student’s dining choice 11 Singing competition that returned in 2018, familiarly 12 “Okay by me” 13 Nourish 18 Letters in old
dates
22 Virgil epic
24 Flip of a 45
record 26 Defensive
basketball tactic 27 Praise highly 28 Up and about 30 Oyster jewel 32 Cub Scout
leader 33 Hatcher and
Garr
34 Some Deco
prints
36 College
transcript unit 37 Silvery
freshwater fish 39 Nature
excursions 43 Dot between dollars and cents
44 Given, as a
medal 48 Rudder locales 50 Snarky 52 Yank’s war foe 53 Earns after
taxes
54 Slushy drink
brand
55 Avian crop 56 Boardroom VIP 58 Security breach 59 Counting rhyme
word
60 June 6, 1944 63 Collegian who roots for the Bulldogs