LA Times Daily Crossword May 21, 2025 Answers

1. Book after the Gospels 5. "__ the season ... " 8. Lawyer Clarence who inspired a character in "Inherit the Wind" 14. Consider to be 15. "That's awful!" 16. Golden Crinkles maker 17. *Calling the shots 19. __-than-life 20. Start of a kids clothing line name 21. Actress Taylor-Joy of "The Queen's Gambit" 22. Atty.'s group 23. Former Seattle team, familiarly 25. *Tear apart 30. Roping and riding contests 32. Bag-checking org. 33. Charged atomic particle 34. Spritelike 36. "Uh, I doubt it" 37. Paltry effort, or a literal description of the answer to each starred clue 40. Potato spots 42. Walking back and forth 43. Mo. of "Madness" 44. Ga. capital 46. Shoelace tips 49. *In the soup 52. Umpire's cry 54. Reddit tell-all sesh 55. Has 57. SSW's opposite 58. Extemporizes 61. *Request from a photographer 63. We Are Toonz dance style 64. Computing pioneer Lovelace 65. Working hard 66. Oasis site 67. Implore 68. "The Studio" creator/star Rogen

1. "Sayonara!" 2. One who refuses to take an oath? 3. Music genre related to trance 4. Texter's "What a mess" 5. Alienates 6. "The End of an Era" artist Azalea 7. Shave wool from, as sheep 8. Work out in a pool 9. Saudi __ 10. Played over 11. Semi 12. Many a poem by Shelley 13. Tolstoy's "__ and Peace" 18. Small power source 24. Notions 26. Home of Cornell 27. Person of the Year magazine 28. Came out on top 29. Artist Yoko 31. Easy-peasy 35. __ urchin 36. Yens 37. Mother of Hephaestus 38. Common element of vaudeville 39. "Wait, what if ... " 40. Flightless Down Under bird 41. Shrill bark 44. Cross pin, in martial arts 45. Collection that includes cups and saucers 47. This evening, in adspeak 48. Bathed in rays 50. "The Cider House Rules" Oscar winner Michael 51. Shish __ 53. Pearly whites 56. Staffer 58. "Then what?" 59. Daniel __ Kim of "Lost" 60. French article 62. More, in Spanish