Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday May 21st 2024, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Deeply engrossed : RAPT
5 Played music at a dance club, say : DJ’ED
9 Led Zeppelin’s “Whole _ Love” : LOTTA
14 “The Time Machine” race : ELOI
15 Slippery : EELY
16 “Please specify” list option : OTHER
17 Many many : A TON
18 Call on the carpet : TAKE TO TASK
20 Triangle or quadrilateral : POLYGON
22 Holds a grudge against : RESENTS
23 Fed. ID fig. : SSN
24 Give the boot : OUST
26 Boomer’s kid, perhaps : XER
27 Sty emanation : ODOR
29 Maker of Regenerist products : OLAY
31 Bath tourist spot : SPA
34 First _ equals : AMONG
36 Pogo stick sound : BOING
37 Toy that resembles a gyroscope : TOP
38 Rafael who is one of tennis’s “Big Three” : NADAL
39 Healthcare.gov law, for short : ACA
40 Chi-town airport : O’HARE
42 Nothing to do with soccer? : NIL
43 Boo-boo : ERROR
45 Sty emanations : OINKS
46 World Cup cheer : OLE
47 Wonderland bird : DODO
48 Abbr. on a company sign : ESTD
49 Promissory note : IOU
50 “My only __ sprung from my only hate!”: Juliet : LOVE
52 “To a degree” : ISH
55 Church deliveries : SERMONS
59 Artist with the 2024 album “Cowboy Carter” : BEYONCE
61 Slowpoke’s opposite : SPEED DEMON
63 Petri dish gelatin : AGAR
64 Ebbing and flowing : TIDAL
65 Old movie spool : REEL
66 Answering system limbo : HOLD
67 Clotted cream accompaniment : SCONE
68 Site for selling personalized gifts : ETSY
69 Multitool’s multiplicity : USES
DOWN
1 Cuts with a sickle : REAPS
2 Singers between sopranos and tenors : ALTOS
3 *Pasta-shaped colorful foam float : POOL NOODLE
4 Itsy : TINY
5 Route around a construction area, say : DETOUR
6 Denim pants : JEANS
7 Rocky Mountain National Park grazer : ELK
8 One who adds a little color : DYER
9 *Totally chill : LOOSEY-GOOSEY
10 Aquatic mammal : OTTER
11 Better _ ever : THAN
12 Try out : TEST
13 Boats like Noah’s : ARKS
19 Austinite, e.g. : TEXAN
21 *Celebratory search engine logo : GOOGLE DOODLE
25 *”So awesome!” : TOO COOL
28 Personal code? : DNA
30 Story teller? : LIAR
31 Enthusiastic audience reactions, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues : STANDING O’S
32 Chorizo meat : PORK
33 “Planet of the ” : APES
34 Domini : ANNO
35 Pigeonhole filler : MAIL
36 Storyteller : BARD
41 Double or triple, maybe : HIT
44 18 holes of golf, typically : ROUND
48 In equal amounts : EVENLY
49 “To be clear … ” : I MEAN
51 Double-reed woodwinds : OBOES
53 Ascend, as a peak : SCALE
54 Giraffe groups : HERDS
55 Phased-out jets : SSTS
56 _ fail : EPIC
57 Upgrade, as decor : REDO
58 Parched : SERE
60 Banzai Pipeline island : OAHU
62 Rendezvoused : MET
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