LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fear of spiders, usually

7 Google Earth

predecessors 14 Aesthetic feature? 16 Hillary supporters 17 Lumberjack’s favorite pirate phrase?

19 Theater award 20 Actor Holm 21 Slender Olive 22 Lumberjack’s main interest in naval records? 27 Eero Saarinen’s father

30 Many Sinatra recordings 31 Pipe shape 32 Quick cuts

33 Gig gear

35 “__ pinch of ... ”: recipe words 36 Lumberjack’s way to punch an opponent? 39 Reverberate 40 Baltic capital 41 Store __

42 Small matter 43 Toon crime-fighter

__ Possible 44 Check phrase 45 Lumberjack’s preferred ABC News reporter? 49 Civil War soldier 50 __ of the woods:

mushroom type 51 Athlete who wrote a history of African-American athletes 55 Lumberjack’s reaction to an overly hard crossword? 60 Track foundation 61 French’s product 62 Bottomless pits 63 Ignore

DOWN

1 Sideways whisper 2 Crackers once

sold in a red box 3 Actress Lena 4 Quail group 5 Having four

sharps

6 Pertaining to a

heart chamber 7 PEI setting 8 Meteorologist’s

scale: Abbr.

9 Veal piccata chef’s needs 10 Contrary to popular belief, its name is not derived from its trademark sandwich 11 Described in detail 12 “For all in vain comes counsel to his __”: Shak. 13 Old draft org. 15 Jane Hamilton’s “__ of the World” 18 Med. specialist 22 “__ la vie!”

23 A, as in Athens 24 __ dixit: unproven claim

25 One who knows the ropes 26 Tumbler, e.g. 27 13th-century Norwegian king 28 Sensor that detects objects using closely spaced beams 29 Texter’s modest intro

32 How things are going

33 Jungian concept 34 Corp. get-together 35 Mate’s greeting 37 Bearded flower 38 Burn a bit

43 Food on sticks 44 Repressed

46 Cries out for 47 “Please explain” 48 Cowpoke’s polite

assent

51 Tsp. and oz. 52 Places to unwind 53 Cilantro, e.g. 54 Watery swirl 55 Nest egg acronym 56 __ rule

57 Novelist Harper 58 Mormon initials 59 Mex. neighbor