LA Times Daily Crossword September 16, 2026 Answers

1. Image in a botanical print 5. Feminist Frequency founder Sarkeesian 10. Hardly hard 14. Jessica of "Sin City" 15. __ New Year 16. Wagon rod 17. Prohibition of some single-use products 20. __ Domingo: Caribbean capital 21. Permit 22. Grinds to a halt 23. German article 24. Earth-friendly prefix 25. Female moose 26. Spiral burners that deter biting pests 30. Bottled, as emotions 31. Add to an email 33. Subject of a miner dispute, maybe 34. Shuns 38. Splash of color in an ornamental pond 39. Ties the knot 41. Granola bar fleck 42. Groks 43. Liquid in a vampire slayer's vial 48. Home of the College World Series 50. Cover story 53. "Later, chumps!," or what can be said while putting 17-, 26-, and 43-Across to good use? 57. Actor James __ Jones 58. Liquid-Plumr rival 59. Battery unit 61. Distort 62. Shoutout to a parent 63. __ out a living 64. Like muted colors 65. Ukrainian port on the Black Sea 66. Tennis match units

1. Track circuits 2. Spanish pronoun 3. Like ghost towns 4. Like a race winner 5. Boxer Muhammad 6. Atomic centers 7. Bug 8. Bit of henna art 9. Train board abbr. 10. Took care of a situation 11. U-shaped body formed by a river diversion 12. Cardboard carton part 13. Till stack 18. Rotational force 19. Broad neckties 26. Trifling 27. Company with brown trucks 29. Glaswegian, e.g. 30. "Ka-blammo!" 32. The "H" of HMS 35. Demure 36. Hem and __ 37. Greek vowel 40. "Ready to get moving?" 42. Mourns 44. "Well, well, well!" 45. Cry from a crow's nest 46. Puget Sound city 47. Large deer 48. Financial center in Honshu 49. Gourmet mushroom 51. Insolvent 52. Typically uninhabited key 54. Sudoku diagram 55. "I feel seen!" 56. Chicago-style pizza chain, familiarly 57. Seer's gift 60. Scores equal to two FGs