LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Beach blanket 5 __ Men: one-hit junkanoo band of 2000
9 Member of a
dazzle
14 “Van Helsing” role 15 Smart __ 16 Location of the Karnak Temple Complex
17 Have empathy 18 Pepa or pepper
partner
19 “Buona __” 20 Phrase on a shamrock-green T-shirt
23 “Almost ready” 24 Sleeping soundly 25 Hermey of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” for one 28 Comedian who wrote “Cracking Up” and “I Know I Am, but What Are You?” 32 Hodgepodge 35 Hoity-toity type
36 Euler’s field
37 Vital organ
elements 39 Sound quality 40 “Long story
short ... ” 42 Motocross need 44 Cozy aesthetic 46 Goof
47 Camel kin 48 Some event
notices
53 “Stop misquoting
me!”
57 Treadmill options 59 Throaty sound 60 Cornstarch brand 61 Rice brews 62 “American Chopper” argument, e.g. 63 Diminutive of
Dolores 64 Aromatic herb 65 Robed dignitary 66 Chuck
DOWN
1 Travis Scott’s
“__ Mode”
2 Once more
3 Like Freya and
Hel
4 Word with down
or up
5 One of two near
Everest
6 Jai __
7 Tiller
8 Lara Croft, for one 9 High points 10 Super followers? 11 Without any
variation
12 Sch. assignment 13 Made a fast stop 21 Breathable fabric 22 Groove 26 Currency in West
Africa
27 Swanky gala 29 Handle for a
née-sayer 30 Savory jelly 31 Start to freeze? 32 Large estate 33 “Too much to get
into” 34 Close
36 Game for
owls
38 Cord cutter,
perhaps
41 “Blue Nude”
painter
43 Large group 45 Josh who plays Shakespeare on “History of the World, Part II”
3/16/24 49 Winner of four FIFA World
Cups 50 Paroxysm
51 Old quarter back 52 Mink kin 54 Judge 55 Creature feature
with giant ants 56 Quasi
57 Wash. setting
58 “That’s the spot”