L.A TIME CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Have an ugly cry
5 Fly through the air 9 Barked
14 Eight, in Spanish
15 Give a darn 16 “__!” ... “Polo!” 17 Curtain holder
in a bathroom 19 Situation with a player at first, say
20 Peaceful 21 Commercial lead-in to “bnb”
23 Gaelic speaker
24 French fashion initials 25 Purple flower with
a fuzzy patch
28 Country singer Loretta 29 Scotch's partner 30 Naked
33 Stomp on the gas 36 Govt. intel org. 39 “We're almost there!,” and
what can be said about 17-, 25-, 51-, and 64-Across? 43 Unnaturally pale
44 Construct
45 Film spool 46 Root vegetable in
Nigerian cuisine
48 Lawn tool 51 Orange marker in
a construction zone
55 Work on a quilt 58 Wild canine 59 “Dance the Night”
singer __ Lipa
60 Like some albums
62 Show host
64 Student at the top
of the honor roll
66 Jump back, say
67 Sheet of paper
68 Hatchling's home
69 Cities with harbors
70 Post-blizzard blanket
71 __ and crafts
DOWN
1 Like an overbearing
older sibling
2 Is sore
3 Pattern of spirals
on a fingerprint
4 Actor Rob of “Parks
and Recreation”
5 Bug keeper-outer
on a window
6 Rowboat rower
7 Noisy, as a crowd
8 Fixed up again
9 “Yo te __”
10 Putrid
11 Allowed to roam,
as chickens
12 Gut bacteria
13 Heading on a list
of actions to avoid
18 Phonetic term often associated with they/them pronouns 22 Sticky tree secretion
26 “The Hate U Give”
writer Thomas
27 Connect the __
28 Big name
in jeans
30 Short “While I'm
thinking of it ... “
31 Exclamation of
understanding
32 Vehicle picked up at
an airport, maybe
34 Golden State sch.
35 The “N” of TNT
37 “__ Persisted”: children's
book by Chelsea Clinton
38 Ga. capital
40 Maker of
squishy darts
41 Humanlike robot
42 Anger
47 Move emotionally
49 Composer Lloyd Webber
50 Save
51 Little troublemaker
52 Juliet's partner
53 Zodiac transition points
54 Board game that dropped “The Settlers of” from its name
55 “Terrific!”
56 Are
57 Swollen marks
61 Name that means “moon”
63 UFO pilots
65 Back in time