LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Short shots 5 Shocks

10 Gum balls? 14 Shade in a

neutral palette 15 Nebraska rail hub 16 Actor Guinness 17 Odd remedy for an overhead crack?

19 Speak effusively 20 Shock 21 Rejections

23 “You can’t mean

me!?”

24 Go downhill fast 25 Pennies that are

a dime a dozen? 30 Super __

31 Met favorites 32 Truism 33 Sundance Film

Festival state 35 Club kin

36 __ carte 37 Percussion instrument for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? 43 “Hardly!”

44 Same old same

old

45 Rational

46 CX-5 and CX-50

automaker 49 Olympian and

actress Sonja 51 Decline 52 Sacrifice of some data storage space?

54 Prefix with friendly 55 Tanqueray product 56 Tofu, basically 57 Munch Museum

city

59 Really distasteful 61 Jewelry in the

shape of a swan? 66 Committed perjury 67 Gochujang origin 68 Red’s friend in “The Shawshank Redemption” 69 Boys

70 More confident 71 Baseball gripping point

DOWN

1 Delt neighbor 2 Gear for

49-Across 3 Decisive

4 Chekov colleague 5 Garfield’s human 6 “Daaaang!”

7 Kim Wexler’s field on “Better Call Saul” 8 Marvel villain who collected the Infinity Stones 9 Early invader of

Great Britain 10 Jokester

11 Many college

donors

12 Bygone Chrysler 13 Rupture in a

church group

18 Native of Peru’s

Urubamba Valley 22 Like a bass or

a boa

24 Urge (on) 26 Planetary path 27 Ventimiglia of

“This Is Us” 28 Ripened 29 Chances to determine proficiency

34 Holi celebrant 36 Get credit for? 38 Urges on 39 Olympic gymnast

Lee 40 Court boundary 41 World’s heaviest

snake 42 Component of some small castles 46 Montreal

university 47 Garza who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement 48 Utterly exhausted 49 “Oh, hi!”

50 Versatile celeb’s

achievement 53 Roosters

58 Some Mex.

spouses 60 Quilting qty. 62 “Why, I oughta ... ” 63 Name-clarifying

word

64 Otoscope target 65 Workout spot