LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Improve one’s class?

11 Quick

16 Alcopop kin

17 Bring out

18 Single, but way too flawed 19 Giant

20 Polish site

21 “Git!”

22 Nucleotide triplet

23 Test for some srs.

24 Cena of “Peacemaker” 25 Mariah Carey holiday hit 27 Resort town named for a

native tree

29 Mixed __

30 Full of nervous energy 33 “The Rotters’ Club” novelist

Jonathan

34 Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor

39 Milne hopper

40 Famished

41 Holiness

44 ƒtouffŽe option

47 Arctic wear

48 1856 Stowe novel 50 Umbrella spoke

52 Word in British placenames 53 Natural satellite

54 “Have it your way” 55 Dong-hyuk who created

“Squid Game”

56 “Can I have a bit more time?” 58 Make one

59 Wheelie bike feature 60 Mascot whose weight is

listed as “Top Heavy” 61 Challenges for a translator,

perhaps

DOWN

1 Chased a pitch

2 Kwanzaa candelabra

3 West __

4 Toll

5 Do one’s part?

6 Walks out, say

7 Laurel and Hardy producer 8 First British martyr 9 Scapula neighbor, for short 10 Long start, once

11 Throw again

12 Brand whose website has a

“3 Stripe Life” section 13 Table

14 “Maybe later”

15 Cozy spot

22 Queen’s gambit, for one 24 Raspberry

25 Elizabeth who plays Scarlet

Witch in the MCU 26 Improves, maybe

28 Tense beginning?

29 Eliot title hero

31 “__ how I roll”

32 Tax

34 Bear up?

35 “It went straight to voice

mail”

36 2014 memoir subtitled “Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery”

37 Western Asia native

38 Govt. cybersecurity monitor 42 [I’m so uncomfortable right

now]

43 Retailer with a RedCard

credit card

45 Bell hooks, for one

46 Time slot with talk shows 48 Part of DKNY 49 “Succession” sibling

51 Tops

53 Happy __

54 Make one

55 “Let me think ... “

56 “Full Frontal” network

57 D.C. player