LA Times Daily Crossword October 16, 2021 Answers

1. Term of address in old Westerns 9. Survives, maybe 15. Freaking out 16. DNA sample source 17. Writer's challenge 18. Ascent, for one 19. Crowd around 20. Show confidence in, with "by" 22. "Seinfeld" surname 23. Touch 25. Short piece 27. 2018 film for which Alfonso Cuar—n won Best Director 28. Beersheba's region 30. Organic fuel source 32. "The Color of Money" game 36. Enjoyed, with "up" 37. Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions 40. Disheveled do 41. "Capisce?" 42. They make a lot of calls 44. Inflexible 48. Kids' song locale 49. Cries of success 52. Tireless assistant 53. Puppy 55. L.A.'s __ Museum of the American West 58. Outlaw 59. Fix 61. "Anything's possible" 63. Alicia Keys label 64. Got off the leash 65. View secretly 66. Penciled-in item

1. Oscar winner as Woolf in 2002 2. Dress for court, maybe 3. Common name for a cockchafer 4. Covert __ 5. Drains 6. One way to begin 7. Gymnast who won four golds in Rio 8. Brilliance 9. Biblical mount 10. Slap (on) 11. Renaissance painter DŸrer 12. Setting for a Billy Joel classic 13. One hiding in the cushions? 14. Breakfast link 21. "Drag Race" host 24. Ark. neighbor 26. Ball charmer 29. Church official 31. Union setting 33. Site of Hercules' first labor 34. "24" actress Cuthbert 35. Discreetly send a dupe to 37. Curt summons 38. Slice of Americana? 39. "Trinity" novelist 40. Spa treatment whose effects are temporary, per the FDA 43. "Lemme check" 45. Small Asian ape 46. Announcement that suggests strength 47. Homer or jack 50. Feminist poet Lorde 51. Many a pound adoptee 54. It's a wrap 56. Surrealist Magritte 57. Dixie bunch? 60. Snitch 62. "You can't mean me!"