LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Marketing target

for K’nex Mighty

Makers

5 Mass transit option 9 Immature beetles 14 Notion

15 White-bellied

mammal

16 Send in 17 Evergreen

seedlings? 19 Meaningless, as

a gesture 20 Tangled

21 Scratch (out) 23 __-Mex

24 Nearly invisible

pest

25 Medal metal

27 Shade tree that’s

been pruned too severely? 32 Accords, e.g.

35 Irish __

36 Writer Dillard 37 Pie __ mode 38 Cook quickly 41 Smidgen

42 Part of a network

44 “What are you

doing!?”

45 Stern greeting?

46 Fruit tree in the

royal orchard? 50 Easy-to-wash

carpet

51 Gumbo pod

54 Ctrl-__-del

56 As well

57 “How We Do

(Party)” singer

60 Clean out 62 Recently developed conifer cultivar?

64 Checkups

65 Help when one

shouldn’t

66 Proactiv target 67 Last stop, often 68 “Star Wars” film starring Alden

Ehrenreich

69 Pro choices?

DOWN

1 Some embedded

images

2 Checking the age

of, say

3 Aired again 4 Research

subjects with whiskers 5 Garment that may match

slippers

6 Like Death Valley 7 Old fashioned

rocks? 8 Elements of fiber optic communications

9 NFL city with the smallest

population 10 Sleep cycle 11 Indefinite ordinal

12 Sharp quality

13 “Mr. Roboto” band 18 Quartet member 22 Levels, briefly

25 Tight squeeze

26 __ garden 28 Rose Parade

setting?

29 Island floral

arrangement 30 “Later!”

31 Lamarr in

the National

Inventors Hall of Fame

32 Sleep in a tent 33 Lotion additive

34 Where a zipper

may get caught? 38 Exhaust-ive

check? 39 Charge 40 Whiskey choice 43 MLB stat that’s

good when it’s low

45 “Glad to take

questions”

47 To counterpart 48 Target numbers 49 Bill

52 British automaker who partnered with Charles

Rolls 10/5/23 53 Olympic

venue 54 Mirrored

55 Fancy

schmancy

57 Film spool

58 Excited about

59 Floors 61 Frankenfood

initials 63 “Curb Your

Enthusiasm”

network