Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday September 6th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Soccer star Lionel with seven Ballon d’Or awards : MESSI
6 Spreadsheet line : ROW
9 Hope __ : CHEST
14 Water brand : EVIAN
15 Poetic preposition : ERE
16 Name tag word : HELLO
17 Good advice for an angry person / Bad advice for a novice dairy farmer : DON’T HAVE A COW, MAN
20 Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” e.g. : SONNET
21 Rhythm-heavy genre : SKA
22 Mole : SPY
23 Fine __ : ARTS
25 Historical times : ERAS
28 Good advice for a complainer / Bad advice for someone blowing out birthday candles : SAVE YOUR BREATH
34 Wild beast also called a wildebeest : GNU
35 “Pull up a chair” : SIT
36 Fume : SEETHE
37 Blake who played Aunt Harriet on TV’s “Batman” : MADGE
40 Lower limb : LEG
42 Go bad : SPOIL
43 Off topic : AFIELD
45 Repurposed tee, maybe : RAG
47 Directed : LED
48 Good advice for a nervous public speaker / Bad advice for an impersonator : JUST BE YOURSELF
52 Price-slashing event : SALE
53 Back muscles, for short : LATS
54 Brief chances? : OPS
57 T’ai __ ch’uan : CHI
59 Newsstand stack : PAPERS
63 Good advice for an impatient person / Bad advice for a Chippendales dancer : KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
67 In vogue again : RETRO
68 Lunes or martes : DIA
69 Tucci’s “Road to Perdition” role : NITTI
70 Far-out type? : ALIEN
71 Belief suffix : -ISM
72 Prepare, as an infusion : STEEP
DOWN
1 Rx orders : MEDS
2 Cooking staple, initially : EVOO
3 Ireland’s __ Féin : SINN
4 GPS technology, for short : SAT NAV
5 “We can share this hiding place!” : IN HERE
6 Gun : REV
7 Miner concerns : ORES
8 More watered down : WEAKER
9 Comedian Margaret : CHO
10 Cut down : HEW
11 Colonnade trees : ELMS
12 High-five sound : SLAP
13 Broadway award : TONY
18 Legal dept. staffers : ATTYS
19 Potato nutrients, for short : CARBS
24 Potting material : SOIL
26 Greek war god : ARES
27 Filter (through) : SEEP
28 Complete fiasco : SNAFU
29 Some German imports : AUDIS
30 In __: unborn : UTERO
31 Island formation : ATOLL
32 “The Book __”: Markus Zusak novel : THIEF
33 Grasped : HELD
34 Key with one sharp, briefly : G MAJ
38 Grasps : GETS
39 Idris of “Cats” : ELBA
41 Ancient France : GAUL
44 Car battery pioneer : DELCO
46 Result of some plotting : GRAPH
49 Violinist Menuhin : YEHUDI
50 Sullies : STAINS
51 Global fashion brand founded in San Francisco in 1968 : ESPRIT
54 Gumbo vegetable : OKRA
55 Spa treatment : PEEL
56 70-Across-hunting org. : SETI
58 Pupil’s place : IRIS
60 Kitchen addition? : -ETTE
61 Learning method : ROTE
62 Salon sound : SNIP
64 Not post- : PRE-
65 “Round __ Virgin, Mother and Child … ” : YON
66 Actor Waterston : SAM
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