L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Many a home in the
Italian countryside
6 Automotive historian Jay
10 Friends
14 Flawless
15 Smell
16 Bryce Canyon state
17 Undertaking
18 “O patria mia” opera
19 Old Roman garb
20 Winter weather caused by cold air moving over warm water
23 “Downton __”: PBS
historical drama
24 Ancient strings
25 Seize
28 “Totally sweet!”
29 Philippine money
30 Like many parking garage
ramps
32 Hopping African primate
36 “__-Hero”: Taylor Swift
hit
37 Cup on a hook
38 Director Kazan
39 Malady that causes the
sniffles
42 Highway divider
44 A long, long time
45 “Scrunch out the crunch”
hair product
46 “You should know better”
47 Begin
49 Principle
51 Mundane musings, or what the last words of 20-, 32-, and 39-Across have in common?
55 Caitlin Clark's college
team
56 Like Big Bend National
Park
57 No-frills font
59 Summer top
60 Preserve with salt
61 Guts
62 Otherwise
63 Canvas shoe with a Monster High collaboration
64 Coarse fabric
DOWN
1 TikTok post, briefly
2 Object of adoration
3 Heroine from Alderaan
4 “Sri __ Matha”: South
Asian national anthem
5 Subject with an “x”
factor?
6 Lounged around
7 Enlighten
8 Lymph __
9 Ancient prophets
10 Finalizes for printing, as a
newspaper
11 Back up an apology, say
12 Burial place of Afrobeat
legend Fela Kuti
13 “Killing Eve” actress
Fiona
21 Modern trading post
22 Bottom
25 “Barbie” co-writer
Baumbach
26 Green Gables girl
27 __ carotene
29 Short-muzzled dog
31 Not at all sleepy
32 __ vase
33 Dismounted
34 Lack of objectivity
35 Tug sharply
37 Chicago Fire org.
40 Apple part
41 Likely to succeed
42 Cafe reading
43 Like an ingeniously simple mathematical proof
45 Stardew Valley mine finds
47 Underwater bank
48 Mini cities
49 Last stop before home?
50 Purposefully lost
51 Location
52 “You aren't wrong”
53 Tucker out
54 Rescue
58 Captained