LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Conspiring circle 6 Singer/actress

Thorne

11 Briefs brand 14 Kitchen magnet? 15 Snacker’s stack 16 Tool that only

works in water 17 Tough

19 Iberian cheer 20 Second printing 21 Kerfuffle

23 Key above ~ 24 Osso __

27 Party of the

first part in the Bible?

28 Hot 31 “Becoming Madame __”: Anchee Min novel set in China

32 “Well, well,

well!”

33 Homer’s well-meaning neighbor

34 Sore

39 Sweets

40 Street sign abbr. 41 Massive lexicon:

Abbr.

42 Weak

47 Simple

semiconductor 48 Space heater? 49 Three-time World Series of Poker champion Ungar 52 Hyperformal

“Blame me” 54 Haberdashery

clips

57 “New Rules”

singer __ Lipa 58 Product used on four of this puzzle’s clues 61 Goof

62 Big name in the

cosmetics aisle 63 Data visualization discovery, perhaps 64 “So?” 65 “Copy that” 66 Ish

DOWN

1 Inner circle 2 First sign of

spring?

3 __ acid 4 Hawkeye State

college town 5 Miss 6 Withstood

hardship 7 Stretch often named for a

music genre 8 Wreath of plumeria blossoms 9 Tolkien trilogy,

briefly

10 Take on 11 Audible

precursor 12 Pot-building

poker wager 13 Decent, so to

speak

18 __ top 22 Easy-to-store

bed

25 Like the winner in a numberguessing contest 26 Island that hosts the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing 28 Sigma follower 29 Ad __

30 Male swan 31 Leader of a

slapstick trio 34 Saying little 35 Unblinking sci-fi

villain

36 First name in

couture

37 Java 38 Swimmer that hunts using electrolocation 39 “I wouldn’t do

that”

43 Ore. neighbor 44 Tone down

45 “__ is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated”: Shaw

46 Great Lake near

the Pro Football Hall of Fame 49 Screen __ 50 Reznor of Nine

Inch Nails 51 Vitamin intake

std.

53 __ facto

55 CPR pros

56 NYC division 59 Mel who hit 511

career home runs 60 Capital of

Thailand?