LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Moving at a

snail’s pace

5 Wedding invite

enclosures 10 “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar winner Michelle

14 Campaign staffer

15 Not as sweet 16 Event with demos

17 Watch straps

19 A-line line

20 Ed Asner’s “Elf”

role

21 Outdoor gear

co-op

22 Go by bike

23 __ and cheese 25 Baja vacation

spot, familiarly

27 Chardonnaybased wine

33 Too clever __ 35 Many a Mideast

native

36 “You Only Love

Me” singer Rita 37 Oboe insert

38 TV spot seller 40 Eurasia’s __

Mountains 41 Paddle kin 42 Continental

currency

43 Many a chalet 45 Reverse chin

lock, for one

48 Poker stake

49 __ Center: Chicago

skyscraper

50 Old photo finish

53 Pa

55 Quai d’Orsay’s

river

60 Zero-shaped 61 Verbose, and

what the circled letters in this

puzzle literally

are?

63 Modest meal 64 Accurately

pitched

65 University listmaker

66 Vehicle pulled by

huskies

67 Data for

sabermetricians 68 Singer-songwriter

Bareilles

DOWN

1 Tree topplers

2 Italian 42-Across

predecessor

3 Norse god

played by Anthony Hopkins

4 “__ Side Story” 5 Barbecue bone

6 Hard to find 7 Climbing plant 8 Spa menu item 9 Next year’s

alums

10 “Who else would

I be talking to?”

11 Corp. bigwig

12 Fall birthstone 13 “__ Front”: Kristin Hannah novel about a military

family

18 Sri Lankan

language 22 Bygone NYC

punk venue

24 Guilty 26 Indigenous

people of

Colorado and Wyoming

27 “__ was I?” 28 Owned

29 Noble rank below

viscount 30 U.S./Canada

defense letters

31 Small drink 32 New Haven

university 33 Forehead 34 Calendar interval 39 Dehydrated 40 Link letters

42 Sicilian peak 44 “Despacito”

singer Luis

46 Breezed (through)

7/26/23

47 Thingamajig 50 Blubbers 51 Malicious 52 Mushroom

spread 54 Paquin of “The

Irishman”

56 Wraps up 57 Concept

58 In the area 59 Novelist Ferber

61 Mil. officers

62 OED entries