LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cowboys, at times

7 Can really bring it 14 Modern book

case?

16 Poirot portrayer in “Death on the Nile”

17 Mondale’s 1984

running mate 18 Newborn 19 Fightin’ 20 Fenders, e.g. 22 Mil. rank in Clue 23 Emergency 24 Flowering desert

plant

28 Go after 30 Orator’s stage 32 Sweetie pie 33 What an inspiration may do

37 Makes big bucks 40 Standing up to

criticism 41 Compass dir. 42 Campus leader 43 Tree houses 47 Abounds

50 Uber offerings 52 Limit

53 Spook

55 Ear part

56 Like the L.A.

Times Building 59 Early name in aviation 61 Reworked 62 Brandished 63 Enter into and control

64 Is

DOWN

1 Spruce up, as a building front 2 Home of Silicon Forest

3 Risks

4 Merit

5 Old food label

abbr.

6 Two-time 1990s French Open champ __ Bruguera

7 Look everywhere 8 Headed for

Europe, maybe 9 Account 10 Infomercial kitchen brand 11 Santa __

12 Wit bit

13 Time of anticipation 15 Inaccuracies usually considered acceptable 21 Cryof anticipatory excitement

23 Side in a decades-long war 25 Gym exercise 26 Road repair sight 27 Comedian Samberg

29 Put in the lineup 31 Manuscript mark 34 Peeled-off item 35 Eclipses and comets, to some 36 Added 37 Orator’s prowess: Abbr. 38 Top-drawer 39 “Fish Magic”

painter

44 Tells off

45 Laptop

alternative 46 Barrels or bolts 48 Windows

forerunner

49 Jobs in the tech

industry 51 Macabre 54 Breezes through 55 Taylor of “Six

Feet Under” 56 Payroll service

initials

57 Feeder of un lago 58 NFL stats

60 Bug