LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Country music sound 6 Coordinating pillowcase 10 Roasting rod

14 “Yippee!”

15 Basketball commentator Rebecca

16 Long-haired lap dog, familiarly

17 Change with the times 18 Major composition 19 Working hard

20 Smile broadly because of one’s own achievement, say 23 Place for a scrub 24 Devoutness

25 Grabbed a bite

28 Chicken __ king

30 Red carpet walker 31 Electric key

33 New York City district that’s home to the Fearless Girl statue 36 Soup du __

37 Sign of spring

38 Lead-in to Z or Alpha 39 Koalas and emus, in Australia

40 Novelist Atkinson 41 Desirable feature of kids’ clothing

43 WSW opposite

44 Prohibit

45 Rowboat need

46 Cap letters at Busch Stadium

47 Get ready to drive? 49 Mike and __: fruit-flavoured candy

51 Amino acid, vis-a-vis protein 56 Aquarium growth 57 Void’s partner 58 “Ta-da!”

61 Thai currency

62 Leave out

63 “Black-ish” star Tracee __ Ross

64 East, in Spanish 65 Recedes

66 Pomelo peels

DOWN

1 Pan Am rival

2 Roll of dough

3 Literary captain described as a “grand, ungodly, god-like man” 4 Casual rejections

5 Skated by, say

6 React to a yellow light, say 7 Indigenous language in Arizona

8 Touch borders with 9 Slam-dancer’s place 10 Emergency tire 11 Bite-sized treats whose name means “small ovens” in French

12 “Honest!”

13 Spot for un chapeau 21 Home brewer’s ingredient 22 Domino indent

25 Up and about

26 Some hairy pets

27 Sweet Sixteen winners 29 Alphabetically first noble gas 30 Mobile payment app 32 Fighting chance? 34 Director Spike 35 Fair-hiring initials

36 Spree

39 Pay, reluctantly 41 Football star and equalpay advocate Megan 42 Donkey’s need, in a party game

44 Future flower

48 Overjoy

50 Common lab culture 51 Paul Bunyan’s blue ox 52 Feeling nothing 53 Smooth-talking 54 Non-kosher sammies 55 Potter’s oven

59 Jar topper

60 Donkey