LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Business issue
since 1979 4 Compares 10 Cyberspace gatekeepers, for short
14 Org. supporting
museums 15 Skink or skunk 16 German refusal 17 Very loudly, in
music
19 Logan of “60
Minutes” 20 Savvy about 21 Archipelago unit 22 Culture medium 23 __ Jordan: sports
brand
24 Simple top
25 Hill group 27 Iconic 1962 role
for Gregory 29 Frittered (away) 30 Prefix with -lithic 31 New Mexico tribe 32 Sanctify
33 Boggy area 34 Forest floor litter 39 13-digit ID since
2007
41 Caravan stops 42 “Salvator Mundi”
artist 46 Between-course
refreshers 48 Whiteboard
accessory 49 Skedaddled 50 Wager 51 Discover alternative 52 Functional 54 Spillane’s “__ Jury”
56 Like many breakfast bars 57 Like some smiles in an orthodontist’s office ... and like three puzzle rows 59 Quelques-__: a few, in French 60 Novelist Graham 61 “__ you quite finished?” 62 Hawaiian staple 63 Smoothing tool 64 Score half
DOWN
1 Data, e.g.
2 Like a hospital ward with a tiny population? 3 Jaguar
documentation 4 China’s Chou En
__
5 Where it originally
was
6 Some canoodling 7 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor Hirsch
8 Put a handle on 9 Adds, as an appointment to a busy schedule 10 Away from shore 11 Action star Steven 12 Hook, for one 13 Caught 18 Parliament figures 26 Prose pro
27 Msg. to the squad 28 Scientific calculator function
29 Many a dad joke 31 __ master
33 “The X-Files” org. 35 Bugs, to a toon
hunter
36 “It’s quite clear
now”
37 Arrive
38 Air fryer sound 40 Country legend
Earl
42 Pious
43 “7 Rings” singer
Grande
44 Even more
expansive 45 Laying-down-thelaw words
46 Like most peanuts 47 Low-scoring tie 49 Mature on the
vine 53 “Sharknado”
actress Reid
55 Fall setting 58 “Save me, and hover __ me with your wings”: Hamlet