L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Numbered work 5 Gushed (about)

10 Employee badges, for

short 13 1953 Alan Ladd Western

14 Former “Weekend Today” co-host Hill

15 Put to the test 16 Super

18 “Bring It on Home to Me”

singer Cooke 19 Scolds loudly

20 Civil rights org. founded by a group that included

W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B.

Wells 22 “Legally Blonde” role for

Reese 23 Super

27 Feature of an A-frame roof

29 Genesis drummer Collins

30 Wheels for the wellheeled

31 Feng shui force 33 North Carolina college

town

35 The guy for ewe? 36 “Nicely done!” and an apt

description of 16-, 23-, 51-, and 59-Across

39 Gymnast Mary __ Retton 41 Rapper who plays Fin

Tutuola

42 Topeka's st. 43 River of Florence

45 “No __ done”

47 Start of an encrypted

web address

51 Super

54 Put on the payroll

55 Ish

56 Dreamy state

58 Wall St. debut

59 Super

63 Nada

64 Arizona governor Hobbs 65 __ well: is a good sign 66 Hair product

67 Fantastic bargain

68 Toe the line

DOWN

1 “Blast it!”

2 Spanish rice dish

3 Relax, as fists

4 Sailing settings

5 Regain one's strength 6 Sleeve

7 Go head-to-head

8 Prefix with footprint

9 Occurs to, with “on”

10 Proclamation on some

birth announcements 11 Old Greek coin

12 Runny nose or headache, maybe

13 Eye sores

17 Chinese philosophical

concept 21 Have a runny nose or

headache, maybe

24 London's Globe, for one 25 Liquids that may be herbinfused

26 Group of sheep

28 Pad __: stir-fried noodle

dish

32 Like cheap wool

34 Trevor who hosted the “The Daily Show” from 2015 to 2022

36 Sushi option

37 __ sauce

38 Like some training

39 Expiring, as a

subscription

40 No-bake dessert with a

cookie crust

44 Halloween mo.

46 Former German

chancellor Angela

48 Diatribe

49 Expensive

50 Goes after

52 Emmy-winning series starring

Jean Smart as a comedian

53 Born, in Bordeaux

57 Online marketplace with

holiday homes

60 Rodent or

snitch

61 Picnicked

62 Spy org.