L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Saudi Arabia neighbor

5 Protractor’s measure

10 Caustic chemical

14 Forbidding word

15 President between

Harrison and Polk

16 Writer Jaffe

17 Santa and his reindeer

landed _ _

19 Territory near the

Mariana Trench

20 Actress/writer Issa

21 Many Christmas trees

22 Oklahoma city on the

Arkansas River

23 Correcting myopia,

maybe

25 Stockholm citizens

26 Small snack

27 Before heading down

the chimney, Santa _ _

30 App reviewers

32 Length of TV’s “60

Minutes”

33 Stepping out of the fireplace, Santa left a__

40 Quarter or pound

41 Like some garden

lights

42 After filling the last one, Santa hung the __

48 “Children of Blood and Bone” writer Adeyemi 49 On the up and up

50 Homegrown

52 Broad necktie

53 Editorialize

55 Flight takeoff

approximation: Abbr.

57 Old Russian leader

58 All in all, Santa had a

very busy _ _!

60 French 101 verb

61 __ tot

62 Like a red Red

Delicious

63 Diana of the

Supremes

64 Speaker of the

house?

65 Beehive State people

DOWN

1 Fragrance

2 Da Vinci portrait in the

Louvre

3 Long-tongued

insectivore

4 Utmost degree

5 “I haven’t _ _ to wear!”

6 “Black Panther” star

Lupita

7 Sticky stuff

8 More or _ _

9 “I heard him exclaim,

_ _ he drove out of sight ... “

10 Bickers

11 May’ve

12 “Almost ready!” 13 Fabric named for

Syria’s capital

18 Prefix with center

22 Whippersnappers

24 Croat’s neighbor

25 Tightly closed

26 Tampa Bay NFLer

28 Havaianas shoe, e.g.

29 Additionally

31 Lightbulb’s place

34 Gritty film genre

35 Classic Cadillac

feature

36 Round flatbread

37 “Five stars!”

38 Personalized iron-on

39 Bi- plus one

42 Adam Rippon, for one

43 Play catch with

44 Hollywood awards

45 Washing dishes,

doing laundry, etc.

46 Not gender-specific

47 Bacon Turkey Bravo

sandwich chain

51 Number of digits in a

billion

53 _ _ hygiene

54 Folk icon Seeger

56 Changes color,

perhaps

58 Org. that may support

a school board

59 Hilton brand