LA Times Daily Crossword October 21, 2026 Answers

1. Second-largest city in Pakistan 7. Tells a fish story, maybe 13. 40-Across layer 14. Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune covered by Perry Como 15. "Charge!" 16. Bread for a bacon, egg, and cheese, often 17. Carved-out corner 18. Gasp for breath 19. Triple espresso effect 20. Submit 22. Before now 24. Circle segment 26. Key lime pie feature 27. Root ball wrapper 31. Bert who played the Cowardly Lion 33. Guest speaker's platform 35. Southwestern building block 36. Farewell that's bid 38. Blasting material 39. Imitated a crow 40. Back tooth 41. Enthralled 43. March Madness org. 44. Uptight 46. Chowder protein 48. Fla. NBA team 49. Vote in favor 50. "Yo!" 52. Help in wrongdoing 55. "Project Hail Mary" actor Gosling 57. Kirsten of "Melancholia" 60. Lamented 62. Get comfortable, with "in" 63. Treat at New Orleans' Café du Monde 64. Arts supporter 65. Bit of progress 66. Like a raw hemline

1. Like a chicken burger 2. Opposed to 3. New Mexico pepper 4. Nebraska home of the Durham Museum 5. Fairly new 6. Bugling deer 7. Rounds of the night table? 8. Not new 9. Sneaker with the Jumpman logo 10. "Scram!" 11. Like a giant redwood 12. Delta deposit 14. Outlaw 16. Ballot dangler in 2000 election news 18. Party animal? 21. Jerry Stiller, to Ben Stiller 23. Green blob on a taco, familiarly 24. San Antonio school trip destination 25. Gas measured in a home inspection 28. Region of South Carolina and Georgia, or what can be found in 3-, 9-, 16-, and 32-Down 29. Build-__ Workshop: toy retailer 30. Go by bike 32. All set 34. Pinched 37. Exhort 42. Like some Pride Month celebrants 45. Did the work for 47. Term of affection 51. "Get __ here!": "Scram!" 52. "Broad City" star Jacobson 53. Has-__ 54. Qatar leader 56. Still 58. Gin infusion berry 59. Watch over, as sheep 61. The NHL's Ducks, on sports tickers 62. Block letters?