LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Auto industry pioneer

5 Couches

10 Enthusiastic

14 Christopher Robin’s friend 15 Novelist Desai

16 Toll unit

17 Draped Roman garment 18 “Can’t you get someone else?” 19 Used Google Wallet, say 20 *Strawberry’s field, once 23 2020 and 2022 WNBA MVP

A’ja

25 Longtime local

28 Resource in Catan and

Minecraft

29 Rodeo hat

33 A Bobbsey twin

34 “De __”: “Gracias” response 36 Bank job

37 Pop in the mail

38 *”Listen, I can explain” 41 Mid-Mar. honoree

44 Flick

48 *Warning that could come

with a “Shush!”

54 Rumpus

55 Late-March sign

56 Label

57 Hedge trimmer’s tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues?

62 Lose one’s cool completely 63 Ingest

64 Minor interruptions

66 Choir section

67 Mexican Mrs. 68 Hit just past the infield 69 Isn’t straight

70 Tater __

71 Like the ocean

DOWN

1 Withdraw, with “out”

2 British lav

3 Arctic transport

4 Bravo’s “__ of Sunset”

5 Kim’s “Sex and the City” role 6 Burden

7 Rock, in a choosing game 8 Flour for roti

9 Turned down

10 Shot

11 Check carefully

12 Country’s __ Young Band 13 Actor Beatty

21 Canon SLR camera

22 Ziering of the “Sharknado”

films

23 Hit a walk-off homer, say 24 401(k) kin

26 Airport shuttle, often

27 Tip

30 Alway

31 Director Burton

32 Compass pt.

35 Cries of discovery

37 “Quit it!”

39 Uber driver’s guess 40 Diamond authority 41 Mermaid’s realm

42 Pond youngster

43 Equitably divided

45 Scathing criticism

46 Stuck

47 Shakshouka ingredient 49 Hindi cinema star Aishwarya

__ Bachchan

50 Actor Borgnine

51 Mozart’s “The Marriage of __” 52 “Interview With the Vampire”

vampire

53 Volcanic debris

58 Versed in

59 Urquhart Castle’s loch 60 Flows back

61 Penne __ vodka

62 Gadot of “Wonder Woman” 65 Undercover agent