LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS

1

Name from the Arabic for “desert”

7 Siamese warning 11 Child support

org.

14 Stir

15 “My bad”

16 Um cousins

17 *Country in much

2021 news

19 Argonne article 20 Stashed

21 King who banished Cordelia

22 *World’s fifthlargest desert

23 *Key to more

issues

26 Back-combs

28 Log-in credential 29 *Greek yogurt

sauce

31 It’s a liquid,

paradoxically

32 “Dream on”

34 Work (out)

36 Part of NATO:

Abbr.

37 Board sticker

41 Not laughing

46 Subject for

Warhol

47 *Swindle

50 Edmonton NHL

team

52 They don’t skip

stops 53 *Bands may leave the stage on either side of them

54 One of the

Baldwins

55 Look at rudely

58 Half a cocktail

59 Karaoke aid

60 Acrobatic street moves

... or a hint to parts of the answers to starred clues

64 Two after

epsilon

65 It might be pulled

by a superior

66 Crack squads

67 Sticky stuff

68 Post

counterpart

69 First name in the

2016 campaign

DOWN

1 Pedi place

2 Lab sound

3 Royal __

4 More pallid

5 Visitors’ victory

6 Curry, for one

7 Coiled gardening

item

8 Capital of Ionia? 9 Michigan State

athlete

10 One can’t start

with 666: Abbr. 11 House speaker

after Ryan

12 He had all the

answers

13 St. Clare’s town 18 Out of work,

maybe

22 Looked intently 23 Floor plans?

24 Biblical twin

25 Hoopla

27 “Yada, yada,

yada” letters

29 Pluck, as a harp 30 Turns suddenly 33 Drama-free state in many a daytime drama 35 “Poison” plant 38 “__ Gothic”

39 Red inside

40 Cornhole

attempt 42 Saints’ gp.

43 Loser

44 Geologic time

45 Work with a

steno

47 Sweethearts

48 Title role for

Sue Lyon and Dominique Swain 49 Arctic covering 51 Temporary

wheels

53 Reggae’s

__-A-Mouse

56 Refined chap

57 Many a camp is

on one

60 Support wear

61 Blot

62 Old U.K. record

label

63 Eau Claire-toPeoria dir.

11-25-21