LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nothing more

than 5 Software-driven

FX

8 K-pop band with a community of fans known as ARMY 11 Colombian street

snack

13 Laptop slot 14 Sass

15 TV series that may have high costume budgets 17 Alias indicator 18 Lag

19 Uses one’s noggin

21 Bun in a bamboo

steamer 22 Recording device

in a vehicle 24 Radish kin 26 Digging

27 “There you __!” 28 Energy bar brand 30 Crypto-linked

collectibles: Abbr. 34 Fan-written story that romantically links same-sex characters 38 Mediocre

39 “Hey, you!” 40 Regret

41 Like Robin Hood’s

beneficiaries 44 Military directives 46 Office competition during March Madness 50 Printing measures

longer than ens 51 Gibson of the “Fast & Furious” films

52 Parkinson’s drug 54 Do one’s part?

55 Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues 59 Tax org. 60 Regatta

equipment 61 “Good __!”

62 Bit of sunshine 63 Trident-shaped

letter 64 Like Doordash meals

DOWN

1 Hot under the

collar

2 Reliever’s stat

3 Stops on the

interstate 4 Writer/director

Nora

5 URL ender 6 Potatoes au __ 7 “I am melting!” 8 White vin 9 Marinated

tandoor dish 10 Jerk

12 Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States 13 Not very bright 16 __ effect

20 Terse denial 21 Pack animal 23 Musical phrases 24 Can openers 25 “How nasty” 29 Genius Bar

employee, e.g. 31 Video game hero who defeats Goombas with flaming projectiles 32 Around-the-world

jaunts

33 Classic game console, for short

35 Thicket

36 Tristan’s

beloved

37 Pos. for Lisa

Leslie

42 “You’re

embarrassing me!” 1/5/24 43 Met

expectations? 45 Leave

46 Flight unit 47 Wetsuit

material 48 Quirkily creative 49 Auto pioneer 53 “!!!”

56 “Consider This”

co-host Shapiro 57 Brewpub cask 58 OAK alternative