Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday October 16th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Term of address in old Westerns : KEMOSABE
9 Survives, maybe : ADAPTS
15 Freaking out : IN A PANIC
16 DNA sample source : SALIVA
17 Writer’s challenge : DRY SPELL
18 Ascent, for one : SUBARU
19 Crowd around : MOB
20 Show confidence in, with “by” : SWEAR
22 “Seinfeld” surname : BENES
23 Touch : ABUT
25 Short piece : STUB
27 2018 film for which Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director : ROMA
28 Beersheba’s region : NEGEV
30 Organic fuel source : PEAT BOG
32 “The Color of Money” game : NINE-BALL
36 Enjoyed, with “up” : ATE
37 Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions : CANCEL CULTURE
40 Disheveled do : MOP
41 “Capisce?” : AM I CLEAR
42 They make a lot of calls : UMPIRES
44 Inflexible : RIGID
48 Kids’ song locale : DELL
49 Cries of success : AHAS
52 Tireless assistant : SIRI
53 Puppy : WHELP
55 L.A.’s __ Museum of the American West : AUTRY
58 Outlaw : BAN
59 Fix : REPAIR
61 “Anything’s possible” : DREAM BIG
63 Alicia Keys label : ARISTA
64 Got off the leash : RAN LOOSE
65 View secretly : PEEK AT
66 Penciled-in item : EYELINER
DOWN
1 Oscar winner as Woolf in 2002 : KIDMAN
2 Dress for court, maybe : ENROBE
3 Common name for a cockchafer : MAYBUG
4 Covert __ : OPS
5 Drains : SAPS
6 One way to begin : ANEW
7 Gymnast who won four golds in Rio : BILES
8 Brilliance : ECLAT
9 Biblical mount : ASS
10 Slap (on) : DAUB
11 Renaissance painter Dürer : ALBERT
12 Setting for a Billy Joel classic : PIANO BAR
13 One hiding in the cushions? : TV REMOTE
14 Breakfast link : SAUSAGE
21 “Drag Race” host : RUPAUL
24 Ark. neighbor : TENN
26 Ball charmer : BELLE
29 Church official : VICAR
31 Union setting : ALTAR
33 Site of Hercules’ first labor : NEMEA
34 “24” actress Cuthbert : ELISHA
35 Discreetly send a dupe to : BCC
37 Curt summons : COME HERE
38 Slice of Americana? : APPLE PIE
39 “Trinity” novelist : URIS
40 Spa treatment whose effects are temporary, per the FDA : MUD WRAP
43 “Lemme check” : I’LL ASK
45 Small Asian ape : GIBBON
46 Announcement that suggests strength : I RAISE
47 Homer or jack : DINGER
50 Feminist poet Lorde : AUDRE
51 Many a pound adoptee : STRAY
54 It’s a wrap : PITA
56 Surrealist Magritte : RENE
57 Dixie bunch? : Y’ALL
60 Snitch : RAT
62 “You can’t mean me!” : MOI
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