LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 AMC car known as “The Flying Fishbowl” 6 “Saltburn” studio 9 Office characters 14 Meaty flavor 15 Nev. neighbor 16 Undefeated Ali 17 American cheese? 18 Goldin of “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” 19 Irish cream? 20 Uncertain
syllables 21 Long-horned
grasshopper 24 Captcha capture 25 Slip through the
cracks
27 Ramblin’ man,
maybe
28 Root vegetable with purpleflecked flesh 29 Actress Taylor-Joy 30 Spoken exams 31 Washington University’s business school 32 Arterial insert 34 Fig. texted from
traffic
35 Actor Nick 36 Spanish
inquisition? 39 Some charcuterie
slices
42 Polling place
sticker
46 Walk through knee-deep snow, say
47 Unrefined 51 “Goodness” 52 Pinnacle
53 Alfa __
54 “Ja” opposite 55 Letter before
sigma
56 Spicy sausage 58 Lingerie buy 59 Packed tightly 61 Tiny
powerhouses? 62 Part of building
bridges
64 Boss (around) 65 “For shame!” 66 Sell a bill of goods 67 Daisy known as the “Rosa Parks of the North” 68 UFO beings 69 Neuroscience segments
DOWN
1 Food with a national holiday in El Salvador 2 Terse request to
chat
3 Reflective effect in
some gemstones 4 Bird in a
eucalyptus forest 5 Chance
6 Cookie with
green creme 7 Australian open? 8 Geometric designs that represent spiritual journeys 9 Toy in the final “Calvin and Hobbes” panel 10 Letter after sigma 11 Big whiff
12 “Go! Go! Go!” 13 Trick
22 “I’ll take that as
__”
23 Face cards?
26 Blowout patch, at
a diner
28 “That may never
be funny” 33 “Top Chef” judge
Colicchio
35 Pt. of Loran 37 Prefix with economics or biology
38 Attach
39 Fame and
fortune 40 Shooting sport 41 French press? 43 English channel? 44 Kuwait or Qatar 45 Real
powerhouses 48 Turn
49 German mark? 50 Many of the founding fathers, religiously
56 Women’s health
brand
57 Decide not to run 60 Honorific in “Game
of Thrones” 63 Book jacket blurb