Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday March 21st 2024, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Puzzle (out) : SUSS
5 Synonymous : SAME
9 Software glitches : BUGS
13 Leg joint : KNEE
14 Slacks, slangily : TROU
15 Fall birthstone : OPAL
16 Thing : ITEM
17 Wag : JOKER
18 Like an unswept hearth : ASHY
19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis : TIKI BAR
21 Animal Planet’s “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” co-star : TERRI
23 Dead __ Scrolls : SEA
24 “The Memory of Trees” singer : ENYA
26 Youngsters : KIDDOS
29 Quote : CITE
31 Linguist Chomsky : NOAM
33 Org. concerned with “forever chemicals” : EPA
34 Language related to Czech : SLOVAK
36 SHO subsidiary : TMC
37 Yemeni port : ADEN
38 Residence : HOME
39 Pal : AMIGO
41 F-150 maker : FORD
42 Catch : ESPY
43 Spy-fi org. : CIA
44 Breathing room : LEEWAY
46 Unceasingly, in poetry : E’ER
47 Policy pro : CZAR
48 Home turf? : LAWN
49 President __ : PRO TEM
51 Pedicure targets : TOES
53 Saturn or Mercury : CAR
56 Asia’s __ Peninsula : MALAY
58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g. : AGE GATE
60 Not that : THIS
62 Way to go : ROUTE
64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits : IKEA
65 Remove from power : OUST
66 Lip : EDGE
67 Clockwork part : GEAR
68 __ of life : TREE
69 “Clue” actress Madeline : KAHN
70 Systems of principles : ISMS
DOWN
1 Funny sketches : SKITS
2 Loosen, as a bow : UNTIE
3 *Act the mediator : SEEK A COMPROMISE
4 Interstate rig : SEMI
5 Tale : STORY
6 Craft for the first couples cruise? : ARK
7 Chandon’s partner : MOET
8 *Illinois alma mater of Ronald Reagan : EUREKA COLLEGE
9 Scrabble surface : BOARD
10 Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues : UPSIDE-DOWN CAKES
11 Exasperated cry : GAH
12 Underhanded : SLY
17 *”Malcolm in the Middle” actress : JANE KACZMAREK
20 __ test : BETA
22 Lip : RIM
25 Like the Dada movement : ANTI-ART
27 Judith Weir composition : OPERA
28 Blondish : SANDY
30 Tony winner Judith : IVEY
32 Astonished letters : OMG
34 Subject of a late-night countdown : SHEEP
35 Also-ran : LOSER
37 Three or four : A FEW
40 Soccer star Hamm : MIA
45 Let (up) : EASE
47 Cartoon frame : CEL
50 Officiate at a cook-off, say : TASTE
52 Like some granola : OATEN
54 First-stringers : A-TEAM
55 Brings up : REARS
57 Jedi with an unusual speech pattern : YODA
59 Supermodel Hadid : GIGI
60 Small fry : TOT
61 “Ben-__” : HUR
63 Exasperated cry : UGH
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