LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Purple bloom

6 “Your Baby’s First Word Will Be __”: Jimmy Fallon picture book

10 Digital collectible: Abbr. 13 Geek Squad member, for

short

14 Lyric poems

15 Foal’s mama

16 Film about a seabird who will stop at nothing for a sandwich?

18 Track shape

19 One of the Gulf States: Abbr. 20 Jewish scholar

21 Garden gastropod

22 Film about a bird who is constantly mistaken for a common pigeon?

24 Like a cyclops

27 “Oh, dear”

28 Ermine kin

29 39- and 59-Across locale 30 Be in the picture?

33 Film about a flocking bird

who wants to fly solo? 38 Future profs, often 39 Vietnam neighbour

40 Wild onion

41 Feline rumble

42 Much of the Great Plains 45 Film about a prehistoric

songbird?

49 Some Pennsylvania Dutch

speakers

50 Way to go

51 Barb

54 GQ and Cosmo

55 Film about a diving bird who

collides with a snorkeler? 57 Parisian pal 58 Designer Cassini 59 Capital of Vietnam 60 Top

61 Merrie __ England 62 Spy

DOWN

1 Euro forerunner

2 Stress indicator: Abbr. 3 Links org.

4 “Beau Is Afraid” director

Aster

5 Frances of “Six Feet Under” 6 Spot for Spot to sleep

7 “In Treatment” actress Uzo 8 Lunch meat holder

9 Visual communication syst. 10 Maritime

11 Delicate

12 British tube

15 “Dirty Computer” singer

Janelle

17 Yielded

21 Poison __

22 Hockey feint 23 Unconvincing, in a way 24 Leave out

25 “To Be Young, Gifted and

Black” singer Simone 26 Objectives

29 Some pop-ups

30 Not quite closed

31 Cropped top?

32 Sort

34 Luxuriously soft

35 Hearing things 36 Seaweed-wrapped bite 37 Karlsson of the NHL

41 So last season

42 Deep dive

43 “Darn it!”

44 “Chain of Fools” singer

Franklin

45 Crawford who was NBA Sixth Man of the Year three times

46 Savoury flavor

47 Unlikely to flex

48 Babbled, as a baby

51 Sand formation

52 Tapped pic

53 “A Black Lady Sketch Show”

segment

55 WC

56 Cleaning cloth