LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nail tech’s layers

6 Open mic night

host

11 Automated Twitter

user

14 Fire in the belly

15 Take one’s sweet

time

16 Dedicated lines 17 Top that!

19 Prefix with binary 20 Fair

21 Consider 22 Kabocha or

pumpkin, e.g. 24 Make-up artist? 26 Mike who voices

Shrek

28 David Ortiz’s

1,768, briefly 30 Beat that!

34 Park fixture for

two

36 Sofi Stadium

player

37 Half and half 38 Caroline du Sud,

e.g.

39 Like some angles 41 Intestinal fortitude 42 __ on the side of

caution 43 Soon-to-be grads 44 Realm entered through a wardrobe 46 Strike that! 50 Miami-__ County 51 “Count me out” 52 Wee

54 Test versions 56 Farm skyscraper 58 Hairstyle for Nina

Simone

62 “Kinda”

63 Take that! 66 Hoover, for one 67 Come about 68 Like a foggy trail

path

69 Four-time WNBA

champion Bird 70 Divulge

71 Fine partner

DOWN

1 Cornfield calls 2 Cookie that has a lychee flavor in China

3 States further 4 Slate of chores 5 __ Lanka

By C.C. Burnikel

6 Trimming tools 7 Nutmeg spice 8 Chewy chowder

chunk

9 Animal on

Idaho’s state

seal 10 Application that may help reduce

crow’s-feet

11 Game show

climax, often 12 Garbage feature 13 Mind, as a bar 18 Doc intended to

prevent leaks 23 Windy City

airport code

25 Ariana Grande’s

“God __ Woman” 27 Gulf of Aden

republic 28 Evoking the past 29 “Just wait a bit

more!”

31 Tie for roasting 32 Remove, as a

ribbon

33 Painted Desert

landform

34 Leak out slowly 35 Stinging insects 40 Regimen with Workouts of the Day 41 Ambiguous

point

45 Podcast

interrupters 47 Org. regulating

pesticides 48 Mischief-maker 49 Freestyle skier Gu who won two gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics

4/20/22

53 Where to wear a

metti

54 Auction actions 55 Old Testament

twin

57 “In that

case ... ” 59 Terrarium plant 60 Bust 61 “__-dokey!” 64 Foundry

delivery

65 Place to retire