LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

Continent with 11 time zones

5 Gift for a creative

kid

11 Slyly include in an email, for short

14 Textile machine 15 “Who __ thunk

it?”

16 Significant time

span

17 Early stage of

most tornados 19 Smallish

batteries 20 Knotted up 21 Actress Basinger 22 Former Clannad

singer

23 Terrible twos,

one hopes 24 Bikini Bottom fry

cook

27 Pacific current 29 “Fan-cee!” 30 Curiosity org. 31 Practitioner of

total patient care 35 Neon or Freon 36 Common nickname for a redhead

39 “Oh, puh-leeze!” 42 Congregation

leader

43 Fail to include 47 Turkish inn

49 At full volume 51 Hashtag symbol 1

Dog-__: folded at the corner 56 Ward of “Sisters” 57 SADD concern 58 “The Grouchy Ladybug” writer Carle

59 “Conan” channel 60 Easy-peasy ... or a hint to the start of 17-, 24-, 36and 51-Across 64 Seine water 65 Puts into law 66 At once, in many

poems

67 Sales __

68 Some digital

watches 69 Polliwog home 55

DOWN

ET from Melmac Watts Towers neighborhood, briefly Greek islanders of old

4 “Who am I?” speaker, perhaps Leatherworking tool

6 Is totally

awesome

7 Dutch flower 8 MLB replay aid 9 College URL suffix 10 Bit

11 Pliable seat 12 Coloring name

since 1903 1 2 3 5 13 Winter melons 18 Paradise

22 Skinny swimmer 23 Home near a barn 25 Cosa __

26 Show up for 28 “Darn it all” 32 Surg. centers 33 Used car site 34 “Who am __ judge?” Pretended to be Icy end-of-theworld region Trendy type often parodied on “Portlandia” 40 Slide organisms 41 Calls on the

carpet

44 Rivera in

Cooperstown 45 “Seems to me,” in

dialect

46 Danson of “The

Good Place” 48 Genetic “messenger” initials

50 Most steaks 52 Notions 53 Fashion brand identified by interlocking G’s 54 2012-’18 Mexican

president 60 Push-up target, for short

__ bind: stuck CIA forerunner Close 37 38 39 61 62 63