LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Victorian constraint on women?

7 Certain lookout’s concern

15 Gamer’s guise

16 Home terrarium area, perhaps

17 Create

18 Crunchy lowcalorie snack

19 Like yesterday’s news, relatively

21 XXXII, quintupled

22 “__ Can Cook”: PBS show

23 In-on-the-joke indicator

24 Get emotional, with “up”

26 Centers of attention

27 Spots at the prom?

28 Traces

29 Plural used for people but not animals

30 Wine list clarification

31 Ancient portico

32 Break-even situation

33 First name in Canadian whisky

34 Lose energy

38 B-bravo link

39 Recedes

43 Word in some European country names

44 English subject

46 Russian veto

47 “No time to lose!”

48 David’s “Frasier” role

49 “The younger rises when the old doth __”: “King Lear”

50 Poor start?

51 Cash source

52 Longtime beverage sponsor for the New York Mets

54 Solo travels?

57 “Darn it!”

59 Awkward

60 Hurtle

61 Corridors, e.g.

62 Academically stylish

DOWN

1 Hardly a nice guy

2 Not neat

3 Northern Italian city near the Adriatic

4 Kind of a shock?

5 Minimal effort

6 __ coat

7 Pre-1991 atlas initials

8 Irascible

9 Symbol since the War of 1812

10 Top

11 Bespectacled “Snow White” figure

12 Company that trademarked Silly Putty

13 Nickname for antiaircraft guns

14 Like the area along a German river

20 “Child’s play!”

23 Method

25 Facing charges

26 Select group?

33 Hard to forget, as a melody

34 Catch fire dramatically

35 Layered entre

36 Closely related things

37 Econ. indicator

39 Assure compliance with

40 Where some picnicking takes place

41 After the event

42 Letters on a Cardinal’s cap

45 Go along with

51 Verdi creation

53 Eats

55 Prof’s helpers

56 Part of CBS: Abbr.

58 Farm enclosure