LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bailed

11 Brand at the pet store 15 Call after a knock, perhaps 16 Nu-metal pioneers

17 Please and thank you, e.g. 18 Steve of “Peacemaker” 19 Big heads

20 “But you just got here!” 22 Scamp

23 Faces

25 Trouble getting down? 27 Proclamation

30 Astringent cosmetic 31 Foot, in zoology 34 Mineralogist who created a

scale

35 Zimbabwe’s most populous

city

36 State fruit of California 38 Underground dwellers of

urban myth

39 Samurai sword

40 Image in Magritte’s “The

Treachery of Images” 41 Contractor’s no.

42 Terse postgame recap 43 Together

45 Place to order 2-Down 47 Giveaways

51 Use a touchscreen 52 Crenshaw kin

55 Bound

56 “... two fives for __?” 58 Classic film based on the play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”

60 Govt. weather agency 61 Be aware enough not to do

something foolish

62 Gets to

63 “Oh, you!”

DOWN

1 Lily of “Pam & Tommy”

2 Eel, on a menu

3 [Gasp]

4 Ready and waiting

5 Abbr. on a business letter 6 Code Reds, e.g.

7 A word before takeoff? 8 Stable creatures, colloquially

9 “Stick a fork in me” 10 Capital of Cuba

11 Sobriquet letters

12 Useful sobriquet 13 Openings

14 Like some households 21 Scout’s terse assessment 24 Like some differences 26 Greater

28 Oscar winner about a teenager who is the only hearing member of her family 29 Sigma preceder

31 Many an Urdu speaker 32 Judgmental sort

33 In a way

35 Uto-Aztecan language

spoken in Arizona 37 Exchanged notes?

38 Sch. that hosts an annual

Mystery Hunt

40 Shade provider

43 Aquafina rival

44 Trattoria dessert

46 Sticks up for

48 Slowly, in music

49 Corset securers

50 Leftover

53 Go through a lot of tissues 54 Soccer star Wambach 57 Rapper who narrates Netflix’s “The Get Down” 59 Support under the table?