L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Seething

6 Jaguar weapons

11 Half a dance

14 Stinger ingredient 15 Superman player Cavill 16 “The Last Jedi” villain Kylo 17 Alpine airs

18 Broken out, in a way

19 Days gone by, in days gone by

20 Capital on the Volga 21 Suppress, as a story 22 Punching tools

23 Suffix with fruct

24 Hall of Fame manager Stengel

25 Sal of “Exodus”

26 Waters down

28 Taiwanese PC brand

29 Rita awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

30 Hankering

32 Depilatory cream

34 Historic span: Abbr. 35 Impediment to creativity

... and each set of puzzle circles

38 Big letters in family-owned supermarkets 40 Troubadour's strings

41 Uncle __

42 Codes of conduct 44 Christian with style 46 Venerated one 50 Adorkable types

51 Lets off steam

52 JFK posting

53 “Psych” finale? 54 Is after

55 Field mice

57 Area 51 craft

58 Singer with Lawrence 59 Accept, with “for” 60 Greek org.

61 Lyft passenger 62 Difficult tasks

63 Hosp. parts

64 Mideast bigwigs

65 Will Rogers prop

DOWN

1 Work up

2 Risky proposition

3 Turow biographical title 4 Not working

5 Fleur-de-__: Quebec flag image

6 Poolside chair

7 Debate equipment

8 Get under one's skin 9 Small songbird

10 Letters on a Qantas baggage tag

11 Like many tees

12 Greek

13 “... et cetera” 14 How some tickets may be sorted

21 Scented pouch

22 Put on

24 Plant in many Road Runner cartoons 25 Dunderhead

27 What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty 29 Distance runners 31 Cultivates

33 Monastic figures

35 Golden State team

36 Christ the __: Rio landmark

37 Crime show with several spin-offs

38 “You obviously can't depend on me”

39 Fetches

43 Most junk mail

45 Comic book personnel

47 Change symbols, in math

48 Opera with Desdemona 49 Alters with a light touch? 51 48-Down composer

54 “__ told”: “That's the rumor”

55 Designer Wang

56 Name in boxy cars? 58 Higher ed. test

59 Cardinal's letters