LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Have an ugly cry 5 Fly through the

air

9 Barked

14 Eight, in Spanish 15 Give a darn 16 “__!” ... “Polo!” 17 Curtain holder

in a bathroom 19 Situation with a player at first, say

20 Peaceful 21 Commercial

lead-in to “bnb” 23 Gaelic speaker 24 French fashion

initials

25 Purple flower with a fuzzy patch

28 Country singer

Loretta 29 Scotch’s partner 30 Naked

33 Stomp on the

gas

36 Govt. intel org. 39 “We’re almost there!,” and what can be said about 17-, 25-, 51-, and 64-Across? 43 Unnaturally pale 44 Construct 45 Film spool 46 Root vegetable in

Nigerian cuisine 48 Lawn tool 51 Orange marker in a construction zone

55 Work on a quilt 58 Wild canine 59 “Dance the Night” singer __ Lipa

60 Like some

albums

62 Show host 64 Student at the top of the honor roll

66 Jump back, say 67 Sheet of paper 68 Hatchling’s

home 69 Cities with

harbors 70 Post-blizzard

blanket

71 __ and crafts

DOWN

1 Like an overbearing older sibling

2 Is sore

3 Pattern of spirals

on a fingerprint 4 Actor Rob of “Parks and Recreation”

5 Bug keeper-outer

on a window 6 Rowboat rower 7 Noisy, as a crowd 8 Fixed up again 9 “Yo te __” 10 Putrid

11 Allowed to roam,

as chickens

12 Gut bacteria 13 Heading on a list of actions to avoid

18 Phonetic term often associated with they/them pronouns 22 Sticky tree

secretion

26 “The Hate U Give” writer Thomas 27 Connect the __ 28 Big name in

jeans

30 Short “While I’m

thinking of it ... ” 31 Exclamation of

understanding 32 Vehicle picked up at an airport, maybe

34 Golden State sch. 35 The “N” of TNT 37 “__ Persisted”: children’s book by Chelsea Clinton 38 Ga. capital 40 Maker of squishy

darts 41 Humanlike robot 42 Anger

47 Move

emotionally 49 Composer Lloyd

Webber

50 Save

51 Little

troublemaker 52 Juliet’s partner 53 Zodiac transition

points

54 Board game that dropped “The Settlers of ” from its name 55 “Terrific!”

56 Are

57 Swollen marks 61 Name that means

“moon”

63 UFO pilots 65 Back in time