The Washington Post

LA TIMES CROSSWORD

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Marshy spots 5 Diego Rivera

creation 10 Escalator part 14 “See here, old

chap!” 15 Something

in the air 16 Topiary piece 17 Start of a tennis player’s argument with a line judge? 20 Recipient of

many lists

21 Poise 22 Life-saving pro 24 Rage

25 Start of an artist’s argument with a gallery owner? 32 Place to put down stakes?: Abbr.

34 City in western

Yemen

35 Get the word

out?

36 Kid-lit writer Margaret __ Brown

38 Clean with

elbow grease 40 __ novel

41 Ties (up)

43 OB test

45 British jazz

element?

46 Start of a dress model’s argument with a tailor? 49 Good guess in

Battleship

50 RR stop 51 Donations to a museum in a will, e.g. 56 Take in

60 Start of a geometry teacher’s argument with a student? 63 “Songversat­ion”

singer India.__ 64 NFLER since 2016 65 Medicine Hat’s

prov.

66 Brewer’s flowers 67 Dessert choice,

for short 68 Secure, in a way

DOWN

1 Odds and ends

2 Org. that makes workplace safety posters

3 Forward progress on the football field

4 Word with

metric or merit 5 __ o menos: “more or less,” in Spanish 6 Garden fixture 7 Uniformed

college gp. 8 Firing range

purchase

9 “Stop teasing

me!”

10 Ordinary 11 “Indubitabl­y” 12 Fish that may be

hard to fillet 13 Loved ones who are blessed at the Feast of

St. Francis

18 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” quintet

19 Solar __ 23 Socials with cucumber sandwiches

25 “Hedda Gabler”

dramatist

26 Like Inti Punku 27 “The Scholomanc­e” trilogy writer Novik 28 Scrawny 29 Yellow shade 30 “A Series of Unfortunat­e Events” villain __ Squalor

31 Safe document 32 Was short 33 DVR pioneer 37 Raves (about) 39 Kia sedans 42 Some plants 44 Ready

47 The “se” of per se 48 Colorful fabric

51 Ho-hum 52 Designer Saarinen 53 Swab brand 54 Spree

55 Texas MLBER 57 Tunneling rodent 58 Tiny amount 59 Nonstick brand 61 Stable staple 62 Angsty genre

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© 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 3/16/23

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