LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Marshy spots 5 Diego Rivera
creation 10 Escalator part 14 “See here, old
chap!” 15 Something in
the air
16 Topiary piece 17 Start of a tennis
player’s argument with a line judge?
20 Recipient of
many lists 21 Poise 22 Life-saving pro 24 Rage
25 Start of an artist’s argument with a gallery owner? 32 Place to put down
stakes?: Abbr.
34 City in western
Yemen
35 Get the word out?
36 Kid-lit writer Margaret __ Brown
38 Clean with elbow
grease
40 __ novel
41 Ties (up)
43 OB test
45 British jazz
element?
46 Start of a dress
model’s argument with a tailor? 49 Good guess in
Battleship
50 RR stop 51 Donations to a
museum in a will, e.g.
56 Take in
60 Start of a geometry
teacher’s argument with a student?
63 “Songversation”
singer India.__
64 NFLER since 2016
65 Medicine Hat’s
prov.
66 Brewer’s flowers
67 Dessert choice,
for short
68 Secure, in a way
DOWN
1 Odds and ends
2 Org. that makes
workplace safety posters 3 Forward progress on the football field 4 Word with metric
or merit
5 __ o menos:
“more or less,” in Spanish
6 Garden fixture
7 Uniformed
college gp.
8 Firing range
purchase
9 “Stop teasing me!” 10 Ordinary
11 “Indubitably”
12 Fish that may be
hard to fillet 13 Loved ones who are blessed at
the Feast of St.
Francis
18 “My mistress’
eyes are nothing
like the sun” quintet
19 Solar __ 23 Socials with
cucumber
sandwiches 25 “Hedda Gabler”
dramatist
26 Like Inti Punku
27 “The Scholomance” trilogy writer Novik ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
28 Scrawny 47 The “se” of per se 29 Yellow shade 48 Colorful fabric 30 “A Series of 51 Ho-hum Unfortunate 52 Designer Events” villain __ Saarinen
Squalor 53 Swab brand
31 Safe document 54 Spree
32 Was short 55 Texas MLBER 33 DVR pioneer 57 Tunneling rodent 37 Raves (about) 58 Tiny amount
39 Kia sedans 59 Nonstick brand 42 Some plants 61 Stable staple 44 Ready 62 Angsty genre