L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wedding party escort 6 Witch's incantation 11 Image file suffix 14 Garden-guarding spirit 15 Free-for-all

16 Poetic “before” 17 “Fingers crossed!” 19 Golf starting point 20 Cattle identifier 21 Puts dressing in, as a turkey

23 Painter or sculptor 24 American addition to Chinese cuisine 26 Face cover 27 Hawaii's Mauna __ 28 Watch over 29 Shakespearean rumpus 30 Sad on the Seine? 32 Migratory salmon 34 Vessel carrying soldiers 36 Directs (to), as a specialist

39 Fibbed

40 __ moment: revelation 43 Yemeni port 44 Bumped into 45 Hoity-toity sort 46 Steph Curry hoops specialty

49 Draw idly 51 College grounds

52 Lighthearted banter 53 See 53-Down 54 Earth-friendly retailer ... and a hint to the circled letters 57 Consumed

58 Stay away from 59 Offends the nose 60 “Spot on!”

61 Dots on a map 62 Doctrinal belief

DOWN

1 “This tastes awful!” 2 Smiled with disdain 3 Fictional captain Hornblower 4 “Bam!” chef

5 Takes ten

6 Air quality issue

7 __ talk: team motivator 8 “Happy Endings” actress Cuthbert

9 Largo relative 10 Assistance, with “a” 11 Propellant for a flying fighter

12 Roll call response 13 “Who knew?”

18 __ trick: hockey player's three goals in a game 22 SLR setting

23 “Selma” director DuVernay 24 Rhyming pair

25 NFL stats

27 Zodiac feline 30 “Turn on the heat!” 31 __ Angeles

32 “... __ loves me not” 33 Prefix with night 34 Local news hr. 35 Obedience school command

36 Friend of TV's Sheldon and Leonard 37 Provide schooling for 38 Ewes and does 40 “Subsequently ... ” 41 Mount __: oldest Seven Sisters college

42 Civil War prez

44 Red Square city 45 “It's pretty obvious” 47 Nursery rhyme dieter 48 Spanish omelet ingredient

49 Joe Biden's st. 50 Unconcealed 52 Certain TV screens 53 With 53-Across, money transfer app 55 Yang's counterpart 56 Wash. winter hours