L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Marshy spots

5 Diego Rivera creation

10 Escalator part

14 “See here, old chap!”

15 Something in the air

16 Topiary piece

17 Start of a tennis player’s argument with a line judge?

20 Recipient of many lists

21Poise

22 Life-saving pro

24Rage

25 Start of an artist’s argument with a gallery owner?

32 Place to put down

stakes?: Abbr.

34 City in western Yemen

35 Get the word out?

36 Kid-lit writer Margaret

_ _ Brown

38 Clean with elbow

grease

40 _ _ novel

41 Ties (up)

43 OB test

45 British jazz element?

46 Start of a dress model’s argument with a tailor?

49 Good guess in

Battleship

50 RR stop

51 Donations to a museum

in a will, e.g.

56 Take in

60 Start of a geometry teacher’s argument with a student?

63 “Songversation” singer

India. _ _

64 NFLer since 2016

65 Medicine Hat’s prov.

66 Brewer’s flowers

67 Dessert choice, for

short

68 Secure, in a way

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2

Odds and ends

Org. that makes workplace safety posters

3 Forward progress on the

football field

4 Word with metric or

merit

5 _ _ o menos: “more or

less,” in Spanish

6 Garden fixture

7 Uniformed college gp.

8 Firing range purchase

9 “Stop teasing me!”

10Ordinary 11“Indubitably”

12 Fish that may be hard

to fillet

13 Loved ones who are blessed at the Feast of St. Francis

18 “My mistress’ eyes are

nothing like the sun”

quintet

19 Solar _ _

23 Socials with cucumber

sandwiches

25 “Hedda Gabler”

dramatist

26 Like Inti Punku

27 “The Scholomance”

trilogy writer Novik

28Scrawny

29 Yellow shade

30 “A Series of Unfortunate Events” villain _ _ Squalor

31 Safe document

32 Was short

33 DVR pioneer

37 Raves (about)

39 Kia sedans

42 Some plants

44Ready

47 The “se” of per se

48 Colorful fabric

51Ho-hum

52 Designer Saarinen

53 Swab brand

54Spree

55 Texas MLBer

57 Tunneling rodent

58 Tiny amount

59 Nonstick brand

61 Stable staple

62 Angsty genre