LA Times Daily Crossword October 10, 2023 Answers

1. Chess piece that's often the first to be played 5. [I'm shocked!] 9. "I'm Every Woman" singer Chaka __ 13. Gobi locale 14. "__ girl!" 15. Sweet sandwich 16. Junior 18. "No kidding!" 19. Black and blue, say 20. Top 21. Stomach 22. Age of Attila's reign 26. Question that introduces doubt 28. Writers McEwan and Fleming 29. Pollen gatherer 30. Bagless vacuum pioneer 31. Japanese box lunch 33. Warning with a URL 34. Like some Adventist Protestants 37. Ticklish Muppet 40. Came to light 41. Changes direction 45. Campground inits. 46. Mashed avocado, for short 47. Litter box user 48. Almost too late 52. Lucy of "Charlie's Angels" 53. Squander 54. Fingertip-to-fingertip measurement 56. Chooses 58. Popular television programming block, and an apt title for this puzzle 60. Mojave landforms 61. Fencing sword 62. North __ Sea: lake fed by the Syr Darya river 63. Like a cereal bar 64. Opinion sampling 65. Govt.-issued IDs

1. Gentle touch 2. San Francisco street crossing Haight 3. Arm pain from playing too much Nintendo 4. DEA agent 5. Bookstore section with Jeanette Winterson and Andrew Sean Greer 6. Tasted, quaintly 7. Get-go 9. Target rival 10. Jacuzzis 11. Talk Like a Pirate Day sounds 12. New prefix 15. Lower legs 17. Get by 18. Official approval 21. Mars, for one 23. Clues 24. One who makes sure fighting between the Sharks and the Jets doesn't get out of hand? 25. Archery wood 27. Average 31. Rip into 32. Cain's oldest son 33. Russian "no" 35. Crows about 36. Disinclined (to) 37. __ out a living 38. "ur soooo funny!" 39. "I'm No Angel" star 42. Oblong pastries 43. 1988 Best Picture 44. "The Simpsons" disco guy 46. Knight's tales 47. Wallop 49. Brief holiday? 50. Silent Marx brother 51. Bay window 55. Education advocacy gps. 56. Punk subgenre 57. Grassy expanse 58. High spirits 59. High trains