LA Times Daily Crossword September 23, 2025 Answers

1. Material for a "No. 1" finger 5. Squarish 9. Maddow's channel 14. Give the __-over 15. Mountaineer's goal 16. "Word has it ... " 17. What "vintage" often means 18. Perlman of "Barbie" 19. "Impossible!" 20. *Lines on a family tree 23. Grimm offerings 24. Life hack, e.g. 25. Far from festive 28. Fills fully 31. Having limits 33. Gift topper 36. *Treated unseriously 38. Cornell University's namesake 40. NAACP co-founder __ B. Wells 41. Fallon predecessor 42. *App with layered satellite images 47. Take a gander 48. West Coast burger chain 49. Water nymph in Greek mythology 51. Not pos. 52. Setting for a mad scientist 54. Writer's first effort 57. Feeling euphoric, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are 62. British pop singer Lewis 64. Get as a reward 65. Unpartnered 66. 2020 film about Shaggy's canine sidekick 67. "The Star-Spangled Banner" topic 68. Really rankles 69. A little eccentric 70. Doesn't gulp down 71. Driver on a movie set

1. Final __: March Madness round 2. First stage 3. Speedy Northeast Corridor train 4. Olympian's haul 5. Worker with a daily grind? 6. Nueve preceder 7. Superheroes trained at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters 8. Sourdough starter component 9. Little pet that may be pot-bellied 10. Boutique 11. Vox, Axios, Reuters, et al. 12. Barnyard bleat 13. React to a tearjerker 21. Squad 22. Audiophile's apparatus 26. Show remorse 27. Crusoe creator 29. Actress Falco 30. Midsize car 32. Org. with Kraken on ice 33. Get the ball rolling 34. Stratospheric shield 35. Metaphor for a bad start 37. Fictional archaeologist Croft 39. In the past 43. Newborn soother 44. Citation abbr. 45. Old news? 46. Comedian Kevin 50. Mexican flower 53. Issues to gripe about 55. Nordic cruise sight 56. Toy truck brand 58. Playing to break a tie, briefly 59. "Melting clocks" painter Salvador 60. Lunch order in a wheat tortilla 61. Old-timey assent 62. Trippy drug 63. Sustainability prefix