L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ones who usually know what to do with their hands

11 She taught Butch and Sundance Spanish for their Bolivian robberies

15 Turn yellow

16 Level

17 Italian menu word meaning “hunter”

18 Rig

19 Spot about being green, for short

20 Earthquakes or Fire, briefly

22 Kind of engine

23 Lhasa __

24 Snack chip

26 Row houses?

29 Agamemnon pair

32 In again

33 Only

34 Social science classic

36 DEA employee

37 Research Triangle city

38 Green of “Casino Royale”

39 French archipelago

41 Cello's lack

42 City with a Cleveland Browns training facility

43 Network operated by the U.S. Space Force

44 Hosiery thread

45 Theater company?

47 Vet school subj.

49 DIRECTV parent

50 Hotel convenience

53 Get rid of

56 “Kills bugs dead” brand

58 It doesn't affect a starting pitcher's winloss record

60 Permanently mark

61 Hard to follow, facetiously

62 True

63 Trials with blindfolds, perhaps

DOWN

1 Soyuz initials

2 Revelations

3 Like una heredera

4 XXV x XXVIII

5 Cuts corners

6 Recovers

7 Snack with an unappetizing name

8 Square __

9 Unmitigated

10 Place

11 Start at the beginning?

12 Nerves

13 Cause of many fictional paradoxes

14 “Did it start already?”

21 Transmute

23 Put away the dishes?

25 Portuguese royal

26 Olympics opening ceremony VIP

27 Threat to world peace

28 Ross Sea locale

30 Exhaust

31 Flutters with excitement

34 Indian lentil stew

35 Spend time in a cellar, perhaps

37 Provide new pieces for?

40 __ juvante: with God's help

41 Honda subcompact

44 Roundup tool

46 Bit of color

48 Mother-of-pearl

51 Pelican St. city

52 Shakespearean warning word

53 Designs

54 Cancel

55 The odds are with them

57 UPS alternative

59 Seattle-to-Reno dir.