LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Unexpected
obstacle 5 “Pronto!” letters 9 Suffers after a Pure Barre class, say
14 __ Top ice cream 15 Four Corners
state
16 “If only!”
17 “Will do!” 18 Emperor after
Claudius
19 __ touch 20 Forgettable band with a memorable song 23 Jazz pianist
McCoy 24 Unnecessary 28 Pie crust fat 31 Ace a
presentation 32 “Pipe down!” 37 Lingerie
selection 38 Musical ability 39 Old PC platform 41 Snaky fish 42 Shopping cart
fillers
45 Spot for spare
change
48 Cook’s Illustrated offering
50 Lake bird with a
wild laugh 51 Sotheby’s
auctions, e.g. 54 Fragrance 58 Element of irony, and what can be found in each set of circled letters? 61 Like 18-Across 64 Goalie’s success 65 Per-hour amount 66 Not sleeping 67 Diva’s big
moment 68 Simpson daughter voiced by Yeardley Smith 69 Came to a close 70 Shout 71 Opening for a
hotel key card
DOWN
1 “Ask me
anything!” 2 Mary Poppins,
for one
3 Out of this
world?
4 Went to a tutoring session, say
5Manya
godmother 6 Fret (over) 7 Judge who hit 62 home runs in 2022
8 Galaxy, for one 9 Set one’s sights
on
10 “All the Birds in the Sky” Nebula winner __ Jane Anders 11 Monopolize 12 Prefix with
dermis
13 Triple __: orangeflavored liqueur 21 Baghdad’s
country
22 Room that may have a sectional sofa
25 Respected leader 26 Cucumber salad,
coconut rice, etc. 27 Panache 29 Bacardi liquor 30 Blu-ray buy 32 Knightley of “Bend It Like Beckham” 33 “Peter, Peter,
pumpkin __ ... ” 34 Build
35 Old name of
Tokyo
36 Work hard 40 __-cone 43 Error
44 Brought about,
as a movement 46 Like a red-carpet
event
47 Opens, as a fern
frond
49 Former quarterback Manning 52 Writing contest
entry, maybe 53 Long look 55 “Reply all”
medium 56 “Untrue!” 57 October 31
option 59 Malicious 60 Hand out cards 61 “Insecure” star
Issa
62 Woolf ’s “A Room
of One’s __”
63 Fit to be tied