LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts

5 Without a cent 10 Youngsters 14 High-fat, low-carb

diet, casually 15 Merits

16 Falco of “Nurse

Jackie” 17 Backyard vegetable patch, e.g.

19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film

20 Surveil secretly 21 Socialized at

leisure

23 Stretch the truth 25 Prefix with pod 26 Configuration before customization 34 Tiny criticism 35 24-Down soother 36 Hearing-related 37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom 39 Titled

41 Mani-__

42 Hops along

happily 44 Shadowboxes 46 Pen tip 47 Element of early

internet art 50 Lifesaving skill,

for short 51 Gaming console with a gesturebased controller 52 Leafy bowlful with

hard-boiled eggs 58 Bub

62 Civil rights icon

Parks 63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across? 65 Opposed to 66 Bring to mind 67 Pull sharply 68 Breakfast for

dinner, say 69 Used needle and

thread 70 Concludes

DOWN

1 Cardiac

readouts, briefly 2 Gather crops 3 Coy response to

a compliment 4 Drift into

dreamland 5 Actor/director

Stiller

6 Many Megan Thee

Stallion songs 7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland

8 Celtic artwork feature

Biltmore __ 11 Unoccupied 12 Pickle herb 13 Official emblem 18 Giant computer

of the 1940s 22 Miss, in Mex. 24 Unwanted beach

souvenir 26 Once-common

storage media 27 Moral principle 29 __ Bay

Buccaneers 30 Lipstick mishap

9 North Carolina’s 10 “Don’t stop now!”

28 Dog walker’s line

31 “Fame” star Cara 32 Lowest point 33 Silver-tongued 38 Dumpster fire

level blunder 40 __ a blank 43 Tentative tastes 45 Space series

genre

48 Building site sights 49 Camp project with

rubber bands

34 Astronauts’ gp.

4/15/24 52 Make up for procrastination, perhaps 53 Sharpen, as a

blade

54 “¿Cómo __ usted?” 55 Adoration 56 Declare publicly 57 Hockey feint 59 Incline

60 Terra firma 61 Requests

64 Went first