LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts

5 Without a cent 10 Youngsters 14 High-fat, low-carb

diet, casually 15 Merits

16 Falco of “Nurse

Jackie” 17 Backyard vegetable patch, e.g.

19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film

20 Surveil secretly 21 Socialized at

leisure

23 Stretch the truth 25 Prefix with pod 26 Configuration before customization 34 Tiny criticism 35 24-Down soother 36 Hearing-related 37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom 39 Titled

41 Mani-__

42 Hops along

happily 44 Shadowboxes 46 Pen tip 47 Element of early

internet art 50 Lifesaving skill,

for short 51 Gaming console with a gesturebased controller 52 Leafy bowlful with

hard-boiled eggs 58 Bub

62 Civil rights icon

Parks 63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across? 65 Opposed to 66 Bring to mind 67 Pull sharply 68 Breakfast for

dinner, say 69 Used needle and

thread 70 Concludes 1 Cardiac

readouts, briefly 2 Gather crops 3 Coy response to

a compliment 4 Drift into

dreamland 5 Actor/director

Stiller

6 Many Megan Thee

Stallion songs 7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland

8 Celtic artwork

feature

9 North Carolina’s

Biltmore __

10 “Don’t stop now!” 11 Unoccupied 12 Pickle herb 13 Official emblem 18 Giant computer

of the 1940s 22 Miss, in Mex. 24 Unwanted beach

souvenir 26 Once-common

storage media 27 Moral principle

28 Dog walker’s line 29 __ Bay

Buccaneers 30 Lipstick mishap

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31 “Fame” star Cara 52 Make up for 32 Lowest point procrastination, 33 Silver-tongued perhaps

34 Astronauts’ gp. 53 Sharpen, as a 38 Dumpster firelevel blade blunder 54 “¿Cómo __ usted?” 40 __ a blank 55 Adoration 43 Tentative tastes 56 Declare publicly 45 Space series 57 Hockey feint

genre 59 Incline

48 Building site sights 60 Terra firma 49 Camp project with 61 Requests

rubber bands 64 Went first