LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Salinger title girl who says, “I prefer stories about squalor” 5 Spanish “other” 9 Las Vegas WNBA

team

13 Dress up like 14 French endearment that means “cabbage” 15 Pound the

pavement? 16 *External

troublemaker 19 __ Pueblo, New

Mexico 20 PowerPoint unit 21 Brewpub fave 22 Bubble bath sigh 23 *Prized

possession 26 More spread out 28 Dice game 29 Tech journalist

Swisher 30 Vegetable in aloo

matar

32 Craft project

initials

33 *Camera attachment for a panorama 38 Acne treatment

brand

39 Lout

40 Indie rock’s __

Kiley

42 Passport mark 45 Make damp 47 *Space-saving option for overnight guests 51 Frustrating

groove

52 “One more sleep”

time

53 Gushing reviews 54 “__ You Babe” 56 “Remember what you were about to say,” and what the answers to the starred clues literally do 60 “Hamilton” Tony winner Renée __ Goldsberry 61 Dance move 62 Stink 63 Cambodian

currency 64 Picks up a Bug,

say

65 Edit menu option

DOWN

1 Self-importance 2 Lefty

3 Spy played by

Greta Garbo

4 Big petrol seller 5 Med. condition that may be treated with Paxil 6 Alter ego of “Batman” villain Lorelei Circe 7 Explorer

Amundsen

8 Saul Bellow’s

“The Adventures of __ March”

9 __ moment’s

notice

10 Crumbly Mexican

cheese

11 Hybrid music

genre

12 Wets with a hose 15 Lettering guide 17 Web access cos. 18 Wyo. neighbor 22 Query

24 Get even with 25 Laundry room

appliances 27 Semicircular

antenna housing 31 Before now 32 Author who wrote

on Friday? 34 One-sided, in

legal proceedings 35 Meaty Moroccan

dish

36 Much of the

atmosphere 37 Did some digging 41 Toronto’s prov. 42 Feminine pair

43 Copenhagen’s __

Gardens 44 Antarctic penguin 46 Prefix with -pathic 48 “Hush, ya big

baby!”

49 Nautical “Halt!” 50 BTS hit “__ Come” 55 Ashram adviser 57 Broadband letters 58 Some PCs

59 Ref’s ruling 2/9/23