LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Danish director

von Trier

5 One of a

yardstick’s 36

9 “High waving heather __ stormy blasts bending”: E. Brontë

14 Actor Baldwin 15 Home of the

NFL’S Saints,

informally

16 Bert’s Muppet

buddy

17 Old Italian money

18 Do a guard’s job

20 Addis __ 22 Zagreb natives

23 Prevail in the race

(just barely) 25 Pitching stats 29 “Furthermore ... ” 30 Musical effect

involving two

quickly played repeated notes 31 Lasting emotional

injury

34 Llama relative 39 Jack Ryan org. 40 “Brace yourself” 43 QB’S concern

44 Food on the farm 45 Gas sign in green

letters

46 Laugh at a joke,

say

48 Big Aussie bird

50 Banks of

“America’s Next Top Model” 51 Peel out 58 Seaman’s “Help!” 60 Surname of

vintners Ernest

and Julio 61 Musical conductor ... and

what the end of

18-, 23-, 40- or

51-Across can be?

65 Hoarse voice 66 Disney’s Little

Mermaid

67 Miller __: beer 68 Soft French

cheese

69 First AFL-CIO

leader George __ 70 Unable to find the

way

71 Tourney ranking

DOWN

1 Calif. legal drama 2 Suspect’s out 3 Showed over 4 Sword sheath 5 __ and outs:

workings

6 Mountain gap 7 Santa __, Calif. 8 Vietnam’s capital 9 Small salamander 10 Solution for a

pencil error 11 Tiny six-legged

crawler

12 It can precede or

follow tac

13 Clever chuckle 19 __ es Salaam 21 Author Rand 24 Hersey’s “A Bell

for __”

26 Rolling in francs

27 “a.k.a.” name

28 Blind strips 30 Cross-shaped

letter

31 Metaphor in a big

gambling loss

32 __ Island, home

of the original

Nathan’s

33 “I do” site

35 Part of LLC: Abbr. 36 Group of whales

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37 Vote of approval 53 Car music 38 Apple pie source

maker’s device 54 Nos in Novgorod

41 Poet’s “many 55 Play loudly, as a

times” 53-Down

42 Tart-tasting 56 Commercial cow

preserve veggies 57 Lured (in) 47 Oriole Park at __ 59 Friend

Yards 61 “Pow!” relative 49 Coffee cup 62 “What __ the 51 “So long” odds?”

52 Arizona politics 63 Vardalos or Long

family name 64 IRA part: Abbr. 4/5/22