LA Times Daily Crossword October 1, 2025 Answers

1. Ill-fitting 6. Ground-breaking tool 11. Passed with flying colors 15. Zenith's opposite 16. Stand in art class 17. Theater box 18. Enthralled by the theater 20. Apple variety 21. Outlets 22. Swimwear brand founded in Australia in 1914 24. Viola clef 27. Scallions' kin 30. Squirming 31. Green-and-yellow farm playthings for kids 34. Krauss of bluegrass-country 35. "One more thought ... " 36. Bubbly drink 39. Fled 40. Frozen Four org. 43. Early bloomers 45. Folks who get creative in court 48. Quick bread at tea 51. Detective story? 52. Boundless 53. Smoothie fruit 55. Lower back bones 57. System operator 58. Shift responsibility to someone else, and an apt title for this puzzle 64. Spot for curlers 65. Lauder of cosmetics 66. First Greek letter 67. Intrusive 68. Veggies for chips 69. Intel job

1. LiMu business 2. D.C. ballplayer 3. 1990 accessibility law, for short 4. Statue toppers 5. Dino with long teeth and short arms 6. Small sofa 7. Text analyst 8. Tempe sch. 9. Advent mo. 10. Community group with lodges 11. Extraterrestrial visitors, perhaps 12. Extraterrestrial visitor, certainly 13. "Yikes!" 14. Wooden duck, e.g. 19. "Hush" 23. Shareholder dividend 24. Slightly cracked 25. Title person in a Kinks hit 26. Lean 28. Mauna __: alphabetically first of two Hawaiian volcanoes with similar names 29. Mo. town 32. Party animal? 33. Big bird 36. Tuscan tower town 37. Makes a choice 38. Covert summons 41. One step __ time 42. Knee stabilizer, for short 44. Suitable for habitation 45. Snidely critical 46. Sounded like a 59-Down 47. Becomes less intense 48. Rebuff 49. Label printer maker 50. Blossoms 54. Gibbons, e.g. 56. Nurture 59. Nile snake 60. Early Beatles bassist Sutcliffe 61. Scanned lines on a pkg. 62. Margaret of "Fire Island" 63. Mo. neighbor