L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Church seating

4 The boy who cried wolf, e.g.

8 Hint of hunger 12 Señora Perón 13 Soften the effect of, as words

14 Pen name

16 Carrier to Cork and Shannon 18 Release 19 Streamlined, as a sports car

20 Miner's find 21 Kitchen protector with strings

22 She played Ika in “Quest for Fire”

25 Tiered Eastern temple 28 “Definitely” 29 “Really?” 33 Chomped 36 Graduating group 37 Letters before a pen name

38 Back of a hit 45 record 40 Rocky crest

41 Best Actor nominee for “The Crying Game” 43 Slippery, as a winter road

45 Colossus island

46 Ignore, with “to” 52 Chinese, for example 53 Baton Rouge sch. 54 Snake secretion 58 Italian sauce with pine nuts

59 Period preceding Reagan's presidency 61 Tavern mug 62 Killed time 63 Boomer's kid 64 Change for a ten 65 Prescribed medication amount

66 Mattel product

DOWN

1 “Split” veggies 2 Daredevil Robbie's dad 3 Suffix with hard or soft 4 “Hamilton” creator __-Manuel Miranda 5 “__ We Trust”:

U.S. motto 6 Luxury Honda

7 Fix with thread 8 Regal abode 9 Hebrew A's

10 Part of TNT

11 Be unable to swallow 13 Onetime Japanese emperors

15 Neil Diamond work

17 Composer Anderson and Jim Croce's “Bad, Bad” Brown

23 Nice water? 24 “Science Guy” Bill 25 Agreement 26 Woody's son 27 Camping equipment 30 Grabbed a chair 31 Luau strings 32 Eminem genre 33 Cardinal or oriole 34 Cannes concept 35 Black or green beverages 38 Acted properly 39 Noisy napper 41 Australian airport code 42 Charlemagne's realm: Abbr.

43 How football games rarely end

44 EOS cameras, e.g. 46 Brewpub lineup

47 Was of __: helped

48 Up

49 Legendary Spanish hero 50 South American grilled meat dish

51 Rolls up, as a flag

55 Deli counter call 56 Early Hydrox rival 57 Contrary girl of rhyme 60 Golf ball holder