LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shea successor 5 Requirements for some new jobs, briefly

10 Bunch

14 Soba alternative 15 Facetious target of a series of guides

16 Film princess who says, “You came in that thing?

You’re braver

than I thought” 17 Chap, in British

slang

18 Middle,

approximately? 20 Start of an old

boast

22 “That’s amazing!”

23 South American

barbecue 24 Slushy drinks 26 Cartoonist Chast 27 Sequence,

approximately? 30 Middle of a

valley?

31 Abbey area 32 Prefix with male

or female 35 Straight,

approximately? 40 French chum 41 Heart 42 Enthusiasm 44 Right,

approximately? 49 Oakland-to-palo

Alto dir. 52 Fantasy author

Canavan

53 Goes to press? 54 Place with crude

buildings? 56 Hockey Hall of

Famer Cam 57 Quarters,

approximately? 60 Whipped up 62 Back talk, in

slang

63 Land parcels 64 “Inspiration Information” musician Shuggie 65 Salchow kin 66 Hues

67 Set components

DOWN

1 Little lion 2 Voice of Chief Bogo in “Zootopia” 3 Colorful cereal

mascot

4 Enter

aggressively 5 Teeming (with) 6 End of an academic address

7 Truss who was very briefly U.K. prime minister in 2022

8 Like molasses,

vis-à-vis water 9 Straightened, say 10 Pole, e.g. 11 Fixture in some

voting booths 12 Singalong quintet 13 Ballroom dance 19 Snout 21 Upstanding 23 Spend time in a

cellar, perhaps 24 “Casablanca”

role

25 Put the squeeze

on

28 Google Play

purchase

29 LG rival 33 Sacrosanct 34 Barely get wet? 36 One of the

“Rugrats” twins 37 U.N. head between Boutros and Ban 38 Planner abbr. 39 Adjust an ascot 43 Booker T.’s band 45 Letters before a

fresh take

46 Flip response to

an ultimatum 6/2/23 47 Official fuel of

NASCAR 48 Quake aftershock 49 “Yes and no” 50 Dakota Natives 51 Get away from 55 Neutrogena

shampoo 56 Storied loch 58 Inspiration for

Keats

59 Date

61 Double curve