Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday March 2nd 2024, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Unplanned adoption : FOSTER FAIL
11 Adoption org. : SPCA
15 Intended to prevent a torrent, perhaps : ANTIPIRACY
16 Name on the highest-grossing concert film in history : ERAS
17 Certain Central American : SALVADORAN
18 Natural traps : WEBS
19 Olympic badminton team, e.g. : DUO
20 Victor Hugo’s world : MONDE
22 Sea bream, in a sushi bar : TAI
23 Sushi bar list : SAKES
25 Snooty creatures? : ANTEATERS
27 Divine : PREDICT
29 “Awesome!” : SWEET
30 “Awesome!” : YES
31 Cheer (up) : BUOY
33 Working days? : STINTS
34 Practitioner of traditional medicine : HERBALIST
36 Burlesque : SATIRE
39 Smallest ratite : KIWI
40 Elle King’s “Ex’s & __” : OH’S
43 Subject of the 2014 documentary “Game Over” : ATARI
44 Jam : BAD SPOT
46 Get rich : MAKE A PILE
50 Melancholy work : ELEGY
51 Salt target : ICE
52 Levi’s Stadium player : NINER
53 Word with Days and Holiday : INN
54 Well-thought-out : SANE
56 “Hubba hubba!” : VA-VA-VA-VOOM
60 Let out : EMIT
61 Feature of non-eco-friendly containers : ONE-TIME USE
62 Syllables in Rihanna’s “What’s My Name?” : NA-NA
63 Moved mindfully? : TELEPORTED
DOWN
1 Scale tones : FAS
2 Rashly : ON A DARE
3 Name on some church-run hospitals : ST LUKE’S
4 Saved to watch later : TIVOED
5 Org. that regulates HFCs : EPA
6 Free (of) : RID
7 Step one : FROM A TO B
8 Noted New York Judge : AARON
9 “It’s all too much” : I CAN’T
10 Paul of “Hollywood Squares” : LYNDE
11 Compete on “Project Runway,” say : SEW
12 Many a fan of “The Baby-Sitters Club” : PRETEEN
13 “Willkommen” musical : CABARET
14 Sue Bird’s WNBA record 3,234 : ASSISTS
21 Home of New York’s Museum Mile : EAST SIDE
23 Northern __ apples : SPY
24 Like the Chukchi people of Russia : SIBERIAN
26 Fool : TWIT
28 Fix : CURE
32 Yona of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” for one : YAK
33 Media personality JoJo : SIWA
34 Bring on : HIRE
35 Let out : LIBERATE
36 Instrument played with a bachi : SAMISEN
37 Region of Chile used by NASA to test equipment for Mars missions : ATACAMA
38 Fooled : TAKEN IN
40 Expand, in a way : OPEN OUT
41 Upturned feature of some snakes : HOGNOSE
42 Pen : STY
45 Shard : SLIVER
47 Pirouette, essentially : PIVOT
48 Unworthy of consideration : INANE
49 Tool box item : LEVEL
55 Text to someone who’s late : ETA
57 Velvet rope crosser : VIP
58 “O Deus ego __ te”: Catholic hymn : AMO
59 Scrip spec : MED
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