Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday September 23rd 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 “The Giving Tree” author Silverstein : SHEL
5 Gravelly voiced sort : RASPER
11 Top (out) : MAX
14 Ritzy : LUXE
15 City on the Rio Grande : EL PASO
16 Flamenco dancer’s cry : OLE
17 Org. mandating eyewash stations : OSHA
18 Canvassing technique : DOOR-TO-DOOR
20 Animals in a herd : HIPPOPOTAMUSES
22 Face value : PAR
23 Org. with 132 Pulitzer Prizes : NY TIMES
24 Initiation rite : BAPTISM
28 Tear up : WEEP
29 Batter’s stat : RBI
30 One hanging around in the forest? : SLOTH
32 Give and take : SWAP
36 “And fly, __ evil intercept thy flight”: Milton : ERE
37 Title teacher in a James Hilton novella : MR CHIPS
40 Kipling’s “Follow Me __” : ‘OME
41 Insect dating from the Jurassic era : WASP
43 Board, as a bus : HOP ON
44 Darling of baseball : RON
45 Daughter of Cronus and Rhea : HERA
48 Becomes clear : SOAKS IN
50 Digs : SHOVELS
53 Stadium shout : RAH
54 Linked in a way illustrated by three pairs of puzzle answers : JOINED AT THE HIP
58 Hardwood with an edible seed : ALMOND TREE
59 After : UPON
61 ’60s-’70s Pontiac : GTO
62 Venetian Renaissance painter : TITIAN
63 Mystery-solving Wolfe : NERO
64 Virtual-city denizen : SIM
65 Strips in the freezer : STEAKS
66 Torah holders : ARKS
DOWN
1 __-mo : SLO
2 Muzzle : HUSH
3 What some Woodstock attendees eventually became : EX-HIPPIES
4 Seize eagerly : LEAP AT
5 Go over again : REDO
6 Cockeyed : ALOP
7 Table setting item : SPOON
8 House disciplinarians : PARTY WHIPS
9 Impressive spread : ESTATE
10 One sharing quarters : ROOMIE
11 Bullwinkle’s last name : MOOSE
12 Sunburn applications : ALOES
13 Boomers’ kids : XERS
19 Breaks up with : DUMPS
21 Feature of some eyeglasses : PRISM
24 Pub order : BREW
25 Magician’s opening : ABRA-
26 Camera type, briefly : SLR
27 Espresso-based coffee concoction : MOCHA LATTE
31 However, in poetry : THO’
33 Churchgoer, e.g. : WORSHIPER
34 Mine, in Amiens : A MOI
35 “Mystic River” Oscar winner Sean : PENN
38 Nanki-__ : POO
39 Capture : SNARE
42 Graph lead-in : PHONO-
46 Social functions : EVENTS
47 “The front page of the internet” website : REDDIT
49 Island big shot : KAHUNA
50 Chicago Symphony conductor with 31 Grammys : SOLTI
51 Mouthed stadium greeting : HI, MOM!
52 Narrow groove : STRIA
54 Benders : JAGS
55 Shipbuilding wood : TEAK
56 Toms’ counterparts : HENS
57 Questionable political spending : PORK
60 Apt. IDs : NOS
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