L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 5 Activist played Without by Brockovich a Julia cent Roberts

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 44 Hops Shadowboxes along happily 46 Pen tip

47 Element of early

internet art 50 Lifesaving skill, for short

51 Gaming console with a gesture-based 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

9 North Carolina's

Biltmore __

10 “Don't stop now!”

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

28 Dog walker's line

29 __ Bay Buccaneers

30 Lipstick mishap

31 “Fame” star Cara

32 Lowest point

33 Silver-tongued

34 Astronauts' gp.

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

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