LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opera solos 6 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 Scripturerelated 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 73 No-nonsense

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