LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 See 62-Across 6 Spanish for “tar” 10 Colombian city 14 “Pokémon: The Series” genre 15 “The __ Not Taken”: Frost 16 Household paint no longer contains it

17 Mani-pedi tools 18 Horrible

20 Hillary and Norgay’s conquest 22 Allow to use 23 Word after sun or speed 24 Supplement

27 To some extent 29 Like Ben Franklin’s religious beliefs 32 Pseudonym 33 Pequod sinker 34 Huge mythical bird

36 Protected inlet 37 Mollusk’s home 38 Prefix for tone or chrome

39 One of 20 digits 40 Then, to Pierre 41 “Hired” workers 42 Delicate

44 Bit of wit

45 Cast a ballot 46 Hipbones 47 “The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple __”: Noyes 49 Whenever 52 Atonement 56 Web surfing tool 57 Deleted, with

“out”

58 Dunkable cookie 59 Perpendicular to

the keel

60 Hats

61 Fork-tailed seabird 62 After 1-Across, skilled childcare worker ... and a hint to putting together this puzzle’s circles

DOWN

1 Combination target

2 Degree offerer: Abbr. 3 Construction machine 4 Retired female professors 5 Tightly closes again

6 Cookout choice 7 Rubbish 8 Singer’s asset 9 Hubbub 10 Customer 11 Near-eternity 12 Commend 13 Passports, e.g. 19 Not quite worthy

of a cigar?

21 Like a fox

24 Stuck (to) 25 Bargains

26 Herb used in

potato salad 27 Formal agreement 28 Detached 30 “Somewhere in

Time” band 31 Deeded

apartment 33 Entire

35 Amount paid 37 Narrow cut

38 One of Canada’s

Prairie Provinces 40 Athenian

marketplace 41 Male ascetic 43 Steers clear of 44 Recycling

receptacle

47 XLV years before the Battle of Hastings 48 Columnist’s page 49 Archaic “soon” 50 Signify 51 Primetime award for which Betty White has received 21 nominations 52 Electric swimmer 53 Tyke

54 Guinness’ land:

Abbr.

55 Above, to a bard