LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Scarecrow

innards

6 Italian port

11 Get better,

maybe

14 Gear bit

15 Cheri of “Scary

Movie”

16 Musical about

Henry VIII’s many

wives

17 *Bilingual Ed Sheeran song featuring Camila Cabello and Cardi B

19 Fury

20 “Oh, come on!” 21 Aims

23 “Love Stuff”

singer King

24 Tub gunk

26 Vane point 29 *R.E.M. hit single

on “Out of Time” 34 Poetic rhythm 36 Plenty

37 Jazz org.

38 “¡Ay, Dios __!” 39 Anthem that ends, “We stand on guard for thee”

42 “Dear old” one 43 Over thataway 44 “Shane” star Alan 45 “Spider-Man”

trilogy director 47 *Carl Perkins rockabilly classic popularized by Elvis Presley 51 Jet set jet 52 Wrote to online,

briefly

53 Feels bad 55 TikTok upload 58 Very nearly

62 Rita Dove’s “__ to

My Right Knee”

63 “You’re blocking

the view!,” and what is needed to complete the answers to the starred clues? 66 Decathlon

number 67 Top-flight 68 Under control 69 Put away

70 “I’m out”

71 Puts one over on

DOWN

1 “Cut it out!” 2 Food sold in

blocks 3 “American Pastoral” Pulitzer winner

4 Word in several ESPY Award categories 5 Cheese shape 6 Loosey-__

7 Basic French verb 8 Composer

Rorem

9 Nickel source 10 Wind instrument? 11 Much of an atlas

12 Mary Cassatt’s

“Little __ in a Blue Armchair” 13 Former couples 18 Lip __

22 “Srsly?!” 24 Actress Ward 25 Dolt

26 Awards for

“Schitt’s Creek”

27 Vowel set

28 “The Favourite”

actress Emma 30 Total stranger 31 __ folk 32 “Becoming”

memoirist 33 Low point 35 One to emulate 40 Docket item 41 Ritalin target:

Abbr. 46 Unsuccessful

candidate 48 Conk out 49 Less taxing 50 Say “cheese” by rubbing one’s palms together, e.g. 54 Many apartments in former industrial areas 55 Rock the __ 56 Concept

57 Minor progress 58 Chip in?

59 “__ arigato” 60 Over again 61 Norms: Abbr. 64 São Paulo

greeting

65 Card