L.A. Times Crossword
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Opera solos Afrobeat pioneer
Fela _ _
10 Atlas pages
14 Birdcage feature
15 Part of, as a plan
16 _ _ vera
17 Creamy dip for
French fries
18 Attractive person
with gray hair
20 Anderson Cooper’s
channel
21 Female sib
23 Like some
restrictions
24 Pea soup flavorer
26 Hit the slopes
27 Genesis twin
28 Many a Farsi
speaker
31 Singer Simone
35 Hep “Gotcha”
37 Scripture-related
39 Perform a simple
operation?
41 Safe to drink
43 Org. that ensures
water is 41-Across
44 No-win situations?
46 Medical checkup
48 Singer Del Rey
49 Greek theater
51 Scandinavian people
54 “Encanto” songwriter _ _-Manuel Miranda 56 Recorder mounted
to a windshield
58 Dawn on
62 Political org. with a
donkey symbol
63 Stashed
64 “I can be better”
66 _ _ acid
68 Speech therapy
subject
69 Average gestation
period for a dolphin
70 Button on a library
app
71 Vow
72 “This might be broken” shorthand No-nonsense
73 DOWN 1
People of the southern Great Plains
2 Spanish queens
3 *”A Matter of Life and Death” heavy metal band
4 Knee part, for short
5 Mint leaf used as a
sushi garnish
6 Mouth, slangily
7 Prefix with cycle
8 Ratted (on)
9 *Ralph Ellison novel about the Black American experience
10 “Dirty” cocktail
11 Automaker _ _ Romeo
12 Shoddy 13 Erotic
19 Shriek of fear
22 *Fencer seeking revenge in “The Princess Bride”
25 Future flower
29 Demean
30 Quill tip
32 *Noisy amenity in a
motel hallway
33 Siesta
34 In the style of
36 Bitter brew, briefly
38 Supervillain Luthor
39 Georgia airport:
Abbr.
40 Part of una semana
42 Actor Danson
45 Walk oafishly, like the Jabberwock slayer
47 Campfire residue
50 Calf feeders
52 Pine Tree State
resident
53 “Count me in!,” or an apt description of the answers to the starred clues
55 Burning anger
57 Surgery marks
58 Norway’s capital
59 _ _ seeds: smoothie
choice
60 Assign to a role
61 Small bills
65 _ _ tai: cocktail
67 Came together