LA TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 One-named Baby Beluga singer 6 EMT skill 9 Longtime ThinkPad maker 12 With 12-Down, mantra on embracing difficulty 13 Bun holder15 Incentives 16 “It’s curtains for me!” 17 R’o contents 18 __ roast: Sunday entre 20 Grace of Will & Grace 21 __ Andreas Fault 22 With 22-Down, idiom meaning “easy peasy” 24 Party coolerful 25 Young’uns 27 Lizzo genre 28 Exams for srs. 29 Gobble (up) 30 With 30-Down, aphorism excusing misconduct that didn’t cause damage 32 Simple camera setting 34 McFlurry cookies 36 Sleeping sickness carrier 40 __ bene 42 Part of a schmear campaign? 43 __ gin fizz 44 With 44-Down, expression describing an absence without leave 46 Baseball hats 48 Golden Rule preposition 50 Jekyll’s alter ego 51 Unopened 52 Most aged 54 Barnyard bird 55 Floppy successors 57 Members of a cabal, maybe 59 __projection 60 Acts like a helicopter parent 61 Get beaten by 62 Worker’s hourly pay

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1 Domed building 2 Samoan capital 3 Best-liked, in texts 4 1980s Pontiacs 5 “Long story short ... “6 Nabisco brand 7 Tennis pundit Shriver 8 Poet Dove 9 Home of Firenze 10 Halve 11 Scotland yards? 12 See 12-Across 14 __ and reel 15 Mardi Gras accessories 19 Wall, in Spanish 22 See 22-Across 23 Practice boxing 26 “Dang!” 28 Kiss 30 See 30-Across 31 Silver State city 33 __ Aviv 35 “Don’t move!”36 No Scrubs pop trio 37 Real blankety-blank 38 Aces 39 Takes interest, maybe 41 Catkin trees44 See 44-Across 45 Fresnel __: lighthouse installation47 Promised 49 Part of STEM, briefly 52 Home of the Munch Museum 53 Brand of sport sandals 55 Baseball’s Iron Man Ripken 56 Bath rug 58 The Princess Diaries novelist Cabot