LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Halts
7 Loops in via email 10 Muslim cleric 14 “Dear Prudence”
offering
15 Circle of life? 17 __ Marcus
18 New word for
something old 19 Economic metaphor coined by Adam Smith
21 Crow’s-nest call
22 Tolkien villains 25 Cryptographer
Turing
28 Gawk
33 Cantina dip 35 Hence
36 “Leave the World Behind” actor Mahershala 37 Very softly, in
music
38 Hurry, with “it” 41 Hydroelectric
facility
42 Ore-__ Tater Tots
43 Years during
Caesar’s reign
44 One of the
Stooges 46 Lowest of lows 50 Some Dada
works 51 “Manhattan Beach” novelist Jennifer
52 Ranch newborn 54 Superhero team with the physical
features of 19-, 28-, 38-, and 46-Across
62 Hawaiian treat similar to a snow cone
64 Mellow
65 “Until we meet
again”
66 Beyond thrilled 67 Pieces de
resistance? 68 “Levitating” singer
__ Lipa
69 States definitively
DOWN
1 “Pretty please?” 2 Genesis paradise 3 Tel __, Israel 4 Gorillas, e.g. 5 Net funds 6 Ranking
7 Corner PC key
8 One of Canada’s
First Nations 9 “An American Pickle” star Rogen
10 Like some
transfers 11 Telepath 12 Whichever 13 James Bond film
studio
16 Big Band __ 20 Mormon sch.
23 Letter-shaped
vise
24 Pinches pennies 25 Seek (to) 26 Cuddly
companion 27 Source of some
wool
29 Suit
30 “Dude!”
31 Self-importance
32 Decomposes 34 Literary captain obsessed with a whale 39 Artist Yoko 40 Minecraft
explosive
45 Part-timer’s work
period, perhaps 47 Rapscallions 48 Many times,
poetically
49 Felipe Alou’s
outfielder son 53 Amtrak express
55 State-of-the-art
1/24/24
56 Deadlocked
57 Women’s
Rights Project org.
58 Actress Ward 59 Feedbag grains 60 Versatile vehicles,
for short
61 Start afresh 62 Bay Area airport
letters
63 “As if!”