L.A. Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Tries out 6Nosegay
10 Pod whose cross sections are pentagonal
14 Skip a syllable or two
15Until
16 “Stay” singer Lisa
17 _ _ Cup: PGA Tour prize
18 Pollinator who can’t fly?
20 Middle of dinner?
21Perfect
23 “Island of the Blue Dolphins” novelist Scott
24 Parents in the Hundred Acre Wood?
27 Joie de vivre
28Emo
32 Storage furniture
34 Prize money
37 Sphere in old referee whistles
38 A pop
39 Camera setting, and what shortened 18-, 24-, 47-, and 58-Across?
40 Otter kin
41 Durango day
42 Apt rhyme for “freeze”
43 Well-mannered blokes
44 Goofs in proofs
46Tromp
47 Product of Shenandoah Valley shepherds?
53 Bird in a bevy
56 Hot spots
57Signal
58 Experimental soft cheese?
60 Glossy material
62 55-Down, properly
63 Like most whiskey
64 Heart Eyes or OK Hand
65 Fancy spread
66 Fool (with)
67 Wrap sheet
DOWN
1 Schedule for later
2 Two-time WNBA MVP _ _
Delle Donne
3 Many a sedan
4 Amit Majmudar’s “_ _ to
a Drone”
5 People’s superlative
6 Sound of the Northwest
7 O icon
8 Took second, say
9 Second person
10 One whose tricklearning years are behind them
11 “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play” writer Bryant
12 Rod and _ _
13 Cain’s brother
19 Nary a soul
22 “Spring forward”
letters
25 Quick meeting?
26 Tough talk?
29 Damage control pro
30 High-stakes shelter
31 Shaggy beasts
32Relinquish 33 31-Down abundance
34 Pump letters
35 Lays aisle-mate
36 Bass output
39 “_ _ the Turtle”: University of Maryland catchphrase
40 “I would like some
more catnip, please”
42 Bootlegger’s vessel
43 Visual aids
45 Really take off
46 Blame (on)
48Canyon
49 Campus climbers
50 Focus of Maslow’s
hierarchy
51 Message board?
52 Red Square honoree
53 Sample collector,
maybe
54 _ _ Major
55 62-Across, improperly
59“Bang!”
61 Org. for OBs