LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Praised 7 Stalagmite creator 11 Spam holder 14 Periodic Pacific

current 15 American Eagle Outfitters lingerie brand

17 Whiz

18 Healthy starter 20 Zodiac animal

with horns 21 Thurman of “The War With Grandpa” 22 Actress Goldie 23 Vocation

25 Baked side 30 Floor model 31 Genuflect

32 Pool or polo 33 Red-wrapped

cheeses

35 Julia of “The

Addams Family” 37 Area represented

by Sen. Gillibrand 38 Meaty entrée 42 Prez on a fiver 45 Whole lot 46 Muscle twitch 49 Tank top kin,

briefly

51 Crème de la

crème

54 Writer Bombeck 55 Filled dessert 59 “Taxi” mechanic 60 __ mortals 61 Place for a “snake

bite” piercing 62 “What __,

chopped liver?” 63 Sequence of dishes such as 18-, 25-, 38-, and 55-Across, in more ways than one

68 Actor Mckellen 69 Leading in a tight

game

70 Barcelona’s

nación

71 Flavor enhancer,

for short 72 Buttonlike earring 73 Squeaky ball, e.g.

DOWN

1 Slight advantage 2 Apple pie order 3 Starless? 4 “You __ your

best” 5 Chicago-totoronto dir. 6 Honolulu-born jet pilot who became a pop singer 7 Galápagos Islands researcher 8 Confirms, as a

password

9 Isl. with four

provinces

10 See 36-Down 11 Traveling band 12 Private school 13 Foes that seem impossible to beat

16 Bk. read at Purim 19 Rubberneck 24 Tractor-trailer 26 Amo, amas, __ 27 Crypts

28 “But it’s a dry __”

29 Hints

34 Home of many L.A. Times readers

36 With 10-Down,

politician’s flag,

often

39 “The Lion King”

lion 40 Word processor

feature

41 Melissa Benoist’s

role on “Supergirl” 42 Accolades 43 Islands northeast

of Cuba 44 Chewing the

scenery 47 Welcome warmly 48 Rivera who holds the MLB record for career saves 6/22/22 50 “Blech!” 52 Apparently was 53 Mega- squared 56 Hanauma

Bay’s island

57 Gave up

58 Fan out 64 Photo __ 65 Clever remark

66 Paul Anka’s

“__ Beso” 67 High hybrid

stat