LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Starts a triathlon 6 Airplane

assignments 11 Short lines at the

register? 14 Chocolate

source

15 “I’ve __ up to

here!”

16 Swelter

17 *When “you can see forever,” per

the classic song 19 Watch chain 20 Top __ 21 Requests

22 DVR pioneer 23 Rich cake

25 Air purifying

gadget 28 Skateboarding

star Tony 30 *Genetic lab

project

32 Qatari bigwigs 34 “__ I say more?” 35 *Almost got the

gold

42 Word on Irish

euros

43 Finnish hot spot 44 *Long, curved

barrette 50 Academic

acronym 51 Glasses for

bookworms 52 Court attire 54 Itch

55 Han who said,

“It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee” 56 [shrug]

59 __ sale 60 Quantity applied to dubious advice, and what’s found in the answer to each starred clue 64 Put away 65 Very serious 66 Leading

67 __ light bulb 68 Cookie source 69 Ready to flow

DOWN

1 Person in Paisley 2 Diminish 3 “Gosh, no one is

happy with me!” 4 PC alternative 5 __ power

6 Like some

martinis 7 AirPods holders 8 Total

9 Hermana de la

madre

10 Farm pen 11 Florence gallery

with Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” 12 Tried and true 13 Seven of Nine of “Star Trek,” for one

18 Founded, for

short

22 Pewter

component 24 Gumbo vegetable 25 Cold, slushy treat 26 World Cup

chants 27 Network

connections 28 She/__ pronouns 29 “No question is too personal” session, for short 31 “Yosemite

Valley Winter” photographer

Adams

33 Part of an act 36 Storyteller 37 Tolkien creatures 38 Wholesale

quantity

39 Get the better of 40 U-turn from

SSW 41 Hydroelectric

power source 44 Merciless

45 Gas up? 46 Hounded 47 Stand buy 48 Wrinkle remover 49 Casual top 53 Awesome, in

showbiz

55 Etsy, e.g. 57 “Frozen” sister 58 Start of an

address

60 Shoot the breeze 61 Color TV pioneer 62 North Sea diving

bird 63 Transgression