LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Andre with eight

Grand Slam wins 7 Russell of “The

Americans” 11 Indian state in the

Western Ghats 14 Lanai furniture

material

15 “You said it!” 16 Furthermore 17 Make Todd stay home after a “Meet the Press” blooper? 19 Untruth

20 Large planter 21 Barnacle spot 22 Hoofbeat sound 23 “Breath, __, Memory”: Edwidge Danticat novel

25 Refuse to let Wood exhibit “American Gothic”?

29 LEGO buys 31 Long-necked

waders

32 Iberian peninsula

country 35 Bigelow or

Duvernay

37 “__ we meet

again”

38 Make Garfunkel pay for breaking a recording contract? 41 Regret

42 Hands over

44 Luxor’s country

46 Folklore monsters 47 Lavish party 49 Donate twice as

much as Gates? 51 Family nickname 55 MLB stat 56 Retain

58 Filing aid

59 “You got it” 60 Maneuver Phillips into telling how he got the “Dateline NBC” job? 64 “Mangia!” 65 “Motor Trend”

topic

66 Pad of paper 67 Med. caregivers 68 Cook up

69 Uses delaying

tactics

DOWN

1 Quarrel

2 “Lincoln at Gettysburg” Pulitzer winner Wills

3 Square things 4 Disco __ of “The

Simpsons”

5 Went to the

bottom

6 Behind, so to

speak

7 “The Two Fridas”

painter

8 Bird that won’t fly

away

9 __ room

10 HP product 11 Valor

12 Bowlful often topped with melted Gruyère 13 Skilled (at)

18 Animator’s sheets

22 Gator kin

24 Need a lift, maybe 26 __ seed pudding 27 Golden State Warriors coach Steve 28 Storybook sister 30 Completely 32 Sault __ Marie 33 Speckled legume 5/25/22 ©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

34 Humanitarians 49 Laundry

35 __ Plaines, appliance

Illinois 50 “No need to 36 Jobless, in a remind me”

way: Abbr. 52 Ring-shaped 39 Archipelago part reef

40 Govt. crash 53 Group of jurors

investigator 54 Helps in a heist 43 Steals from 57 Jr. challenge 45 Opening 60 Pinot alternative 47 High spirits 61 Sharing word 48 Phone 62 GPS display

notifications 63 Scheduling abbr. 5/25/22