L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tempo similar to lento 6 Quacked insurance name 11 Film watcher's channel 14 Plane, to Pierre 15 “Fighting” Notre Dame team

16 Listening organ

17 Forgetful moment 19 Falsehood

20 Request

21 Great enthusiasm

22 Revise, as text

24 Indian lentil stew

25 Sporty sunroofs

26 One arguing for the unpopular side

32 Absorb the lesson 33 Applauds

34 Effort

35 Rowing tools

36 “Cha-__!”: register sound 37 Delighted shout from the roller coaster

38 Summer hrs. in Oregon 39 William __, early bathysphere user 40 Exclaimed

41 Education division governed by a board

44 Peer

45 Humble dwelling 46 Aleut relative

47 Louvre Pyramid architect 50 Govt. agent

53 Windy City rail initials 54 Facts known to a select few ... and a hint to each set of circled letters 57 Funhouse reaction

58 Wafer named for its flavor

59 Like a funhouse

60 Dr. of rap

61 Best Buy “squad” members

62 Faked, in hockey

DOWN

1 Dalai __

2 NYC's Madison and Lexington

3 Hockey enclosure 4 Received 5 Rescheduled after being canceled, as a meeting

6 Afflicts

7 House with brothers 8 Slimming surgery, for short

9 Braying beast 10 Frito-Lay corn snacks 11 Blessed with ESP 12 Primary thoroughfare in many towns

13 Believability, for short 18 Break in the action

23 Soft shoe

24 TiVo products

25 Freq. sitcom rating

26 Right smack in the middle

27 Threat from a fault

28 NFL list of games, e.g. 29 Crook's cover

30 Claire of “Homeland” 31 Observed closely

32 Cuts (off)

36 Phone in a purse

37 Legal document

39 Enjoying the ocean 40 Enjoyed the ocean

42 Yves' yes

43 Biblical pronoun

46 Cooled with cubes

47 Ocean map dot

48 Cereal go-with 49 Smooching in a crowded park and such, briefly 50 Road divide

51 Lake that's a homophone of 59-Across

52 Lightened, as hair 55 Nietzsche's “never” 56 Casual shirt