LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Subject of the Caldecott Honor book “The Right Word”

6 Lines of praise 10 “The __ Tour”: record-setting 2023-24 concert series 14 Butterfly’s stage 15 Stroke of luck? 17 City between Bismarck and Minneapolis on I-94

18 __ store

19 Swiss cheese? 21 Camp site 22 Being of Jewish

folklore 24 Unleavened

flatbread

25 Band whose work is featured in the musical “Head Over Heels”

28 Go on and on 32 Cool kin

33 Relish

35 Cheek muscle,

for short 36 Acrobat’s

company

38 AQI monitor 39 Played again 40 Brown ermine 41 “__ Baby”: 2020 film set during a Jewish ritual 43 Soul provider 44 Shirley Jackson’s

genre 46 Biological

building block 48 Emotional

wound 50 Assortment 51 Threat to some

colonists 55 Seuss reptile 58 Barrier visited by

tourists 60 Hawkeye missile 61 One who doesn’t

like to just veg? 62 Two-terminal

device

63 Trees with oval

leaves

64 Sub contractor? 65 Elusive

Himalayans

DOWN

1 Jazz motif

2 Ilhan who was the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor 3 Remote target 4 Holiday

concoction 5 Extremely tight 6 Omega, in

physics

7 Bad lot

8 Bull in a product

name

9 Salt, say 10 Theme that plays over the closing credits 11 Hitchcock’s first

film in color 12 Soon, long ago 13 Third-qtr. month 16 Photogenic 20 Beneficiary of a

Sonic boom? 23 Shifts

25 Refuse

26 Was compelled 27 Some campus

returnees 29 Ragtime dance 30 Net income? 31 Nephric 34 Yogurt-based condiment served with 24-Across 37 Counter points? 42 Über 45 Souped-up

junker

47 Nation known

for temperance 49 “The Canterbury

Tales” pilgrim 51 Peak

52 Time for some

wrap parties 53 Zurich transport 54 Stagger 56 California wine town near Stockton 57 Short-horned

bighorns 59 Calendar abbr.