THE DAILY CROSSWORD
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis for the Los Angeles Times
ACROSS
1 Starts a triathlon
6 Airplane assignments
11 Short lines at the register?
14 Chocolate source
15 “I’ve __ up to here!”
16 Swelter
17 *When “you can see forever,” per the classic song
19 Watch chain
20 Top __
21 Requests
22 DVR pioneer 23 Rich cake
25 Air purifying gadget
28 Skateboarding star Tony
30 *Genetic lab project
32 Qatari bigwigs
34 “__ I say more?”
35 *Almost got the gold
42 Word on Irish euros
43 Finnish hot spot
44 *Long, curved barrette
50 Academic acronym
51 Glasses for bookworms
52 Court attire
54 Itch
55 Han who said, “It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee”
56 [shrug]
59 __ sale
60 Quantity applied to dubious advice, and what’s found in the answer to each starred clue
64 Put away
65 Very serious
66 Leading
67 __ light bulb
68 Cookie source
69 Ready to flow
DOWN
1 Person in Paisley
2 Diminish
3 “Gosh, no one is happy with me!”
4 PC alternative
5 __ power * 6 Like some martinis
7 Airpods holders
8 Total
9 Hermana de la madre
10 Farm pen
11 Florence gallery with Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”
12 Tried and true
13 Seven of Nine of “Star Trek,” for one
18 Founded, for short
22 Pewter component
24 Gumbo vegetable
25 Cold, slushy treat
26 World Cup chants
27 Network connections
28 She/__ pronouns
29 “No question is too personal” session, for short 31 “Yosemite Valley Winter” photographer Adams 33 Part of an act 36 Storyteller
37 Tolkien creatures
38 Wholesale quantity
39 Get the better of
40 U-turn from SSW
41 Hydroelectric power source
44 Merciless
45 Gas up?
46 Hounded
47 Stand buy
48 Wrinkle remover
49 Casual top
53 Awesome, in showbiz
55 Etsy, e.g.
57 “Frozen” sister
58 Start of an address
60 Shoot the breeze
61 Color TV pioneer
62 North Sea diving bird
63 Transgression