LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Caught wind of 6 Helpless? 10 French friends 14 Get along 15 Rotten to the core 16 Fender flaw 17 Tap options? 19 Disney princess whose gown is adorned with snowflakes

20 “I’m so dumb!”

21 Lessen, as

pressure

23 Slumber party

wear, for short 25 Poker options?

28 Time-stamp

component

30 Like oyster

shooters

31 90° from sur 32 Start of many

long weekends

35 Academic figure

37 Flower options?

41 German automaker

once owned by General Motors

42 Emotional

baggage

45 Hawk’s claw

49 __ Speedwagon 51 Upgrade a gravel

driveway, say 52 Mouth options? 56 Socal airport 57 Big citrus

58 Lipstick mishap 60 Luminescence

61 Boxing options?

66 Forearm bone

67 Field of study 68 Huevos rancheros

condiment

69 Overly inquisitive

70 Baking amt.

71 Fix, as text

DOWN

1 Scoffer’s laugh

2 Psychoanalysis

subject

3 Like one who can really draw a crowd?

4 Audition (for)

5 “Tree of Smoke”

novelist Johnson 6 Pie chart slice 7 Ab __: from the

beginning 8 Short, for short 9 Of yesteryear

10 “__ Fideles”

11 Wild brawls 12 Slight

13 Rice, in some

cuisine

18 “I’m so dumb!”

22 Mortal lover of Aphrodite and Persephone

23 Common email

attachment

24 Preserves

preserver

26 Imitates a

penguin 27 Wowed

29 Part of a

35-Across’s

address 33 Lacking a

musical key 34 Terrier’s bark 36 “Midsommar”

filmmaker Aster

38 Unhip type 39 Uncanny ability,

for short

40 Job for an actor playing identical twins, say 43 “Hadestown” Tony nominee

Noblezada ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 2/29/24 44 Possible reason 50 “Nice burn!”

for an R rating 53 Greet silently

45 1986 movie 54 Actress

partly filmed at Thurman

San Diego’s Air 55 On edge

Station Miramar 59 “Ferrari” actor 46 “The Trials of __”: Driver

Rick Riordan 62 Scepter top series based on 63 Director

Greek myths Anderson

47 Small citrus 64 Gp. featured in 48 Like freeway 45-Down

ramps 65 Skosh