LA Times Daily Crossword July 2, 2025 Answers

1. Makeshift instrument 4. Chess champion Garry 12. First down yardage amount 15. "Float like a butterfly" boxer 16. Forget to set the oven timer, maybe 17. Wrath 18. "Headbangers Ball" airer 19. Breakfast: cereal 20. Gaping opening 21. Made, as beer 23. Reader's __ 25. Malia's sister 26. "A Fine Romance" composer Jerome 30. "No __": "Perfect!" 31. Lunch: fast-food sandwich 34. Gravitate (toward) 36. Camry competitor 37. Seemingly never-ending story 40. Poison __ 41. Letter between pi and sigma 42. Cyclops feature 44. Sacred oath 45. Curriculum __ 47. Backside 50. First-year cadet 52. Dinner: seafood pasta 55. "That's my experience too" 56. Like windshields on winter mornings 59. Like 1% milk 63. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or what 19-, 31-, and 52-Across literally are 68. Org. chasing Jason Bourne 69. Opening stage 70. Letters on Megan Rapinoe's jersey 71. Contains 72. Heard things? 73. Neither partner

1. Places for mezuzahs 2. Extreme 3. Steps aside for 4. The "K" of K-drama 5. Eager 6. "Wait just a __" 7. Beginning of history? 8. Kimmel's network 9. Rally cry 10. Approved 11. Like some brain teasers 12. Leap years? 13. Rub out 14. Stream skitterers 22. Line on an invite 24. "Who __ there?" 26. Son of Han Solo and Princess Leia 27. Approximate fig. 28. Hitter's stat 29. Digit 32. "Well, lah-di-__!" 33. Cartilaginous fish that may have a whiplike tail 34. Tyler of "The Leftovers" 35. Really bad 38. Mongolian desert 39. Wonderment 41. One running toward disaster, presumably 43. Embodiment 46. Put up with 48. Goof up 49. "__ you sure?" 51. Lerner's partner on Broadway 53. Tests, as a microphone 54. "La Bamba" singer Ritchie 56. Hydrocortisone cream target 57. Kombucha seeds 58. Presidential spans 60. Half-man, half-goat 61. "Plus ... " 62. Russian monarch 64. Status __ 65. Oxford, e.g., to locals 66. Podcast interrupters 67. Tobiko or masago