LA Times Daily Crossword February 16, 2023 Answers

1. Striped pet 6. "__ chic!" 10. Gear tooth 13. Sprightly 14. Bridge predecessor 15. Back on a ship 16. *Research without direct application 18. Spending power, for short 19. "No Ordinary Love" singer 20. Eleven digits? 21. Treadmill setting 23. *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968 27. Yuletide song 28. 33-Across years 29. Paper or plastic 30. Father of the Muses 33. Score half 34. *Helpline offering 38. "I see," at sea 39. Noodle nugget 40. "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's __": Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema 41. Policy of some restaurants 44. "An Caighdeán Oifigiúil" language 45. *Commerce imbalance 49. Recycle bin, e.g. 50. Shades 51. Becomes compost 55. "Gross!" 56. *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? 59. Baseball great Ripken 60. Comes up against 61. Isaac of "Moon Knight" 62. U-turn from WSW 63. Response heard during a pool game 64. Pier

1. Spigots 2. Río flower 3. __ of paradise 4. Cover up, in a way 5. [Nod] 6. Org. with 27 member states 7. Salon procedure 8. Key to going back? 9. Grassy expanse 10. Word on an Italian menu that means "hunter" 11. Those at fault 12. Classic Pontiac muscle car 14. Annex 17. Anthracite or lignite 22. __ de Triomphe 24. Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man 25. The Aztecs of the NCAA's Mountain West Conf. 26. Bloke 27. Center of a 3-4 football defense 29. Spanish dialect in the Big Apple 30. Character debuted by Zadie Smith? 31. Poetic preposition 32. Can. neighbor 34. "You __ be serious" 35. Leave out 36. Home of many Quechua speakers 37. Means to an end? 42. Final words of an engagement 43. Top removed before dashing off? 44. Conditional programming word 46. Mover's rental 47. Cost 48. Identifies (as) 52. Largest member of the dolphin family 53. Leader in the Bulgarian Empire 54. Feudal laborer 55. Diamonds, in slang 57. "Last Week Tonight" network 58. "Bam!" kin