LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bear’s home
5 Actress Winslet or Hudson
9 Clever tactic
13 Pig Latin negative
15 Spoken
16 Levitate
17 Accompanying dishes, like 56Across
19 “Kapow!”
20 Air pressure meas.
21 College head
22 Actress Lively of “Green Lantern”
23 Athenian now a citizen in Athens, Georgia, say
27 Hillock
28 J, F or K, in “JFK”: Abbr.
29 Fancy farewells
30 Spraying gently, as plants
35 Crush consistently in competition
36 Did a stable job
37 Long of “Boiler Room”
38 Expecting a baby, quaintly
41 Capture
43 Mayberry youngster
44 Secret stash
45 “... nothing more”
50 Tablets with preloaded FaceTime
51 Skin care additive
52 Decisive boxing victories
55 Bonkers
56 Circular fried food ... and what’s in the circled letters
59 Again
60 Tea and coffee servers
61 Treat with disdain
62 Fronded office greenery
63 Assign stars to
64 Sheepish animals?
DOWN
1 Issue for a speech coach, perhaps
2 x, y or z, in geometry
3 Like one saying “Well, I never!”
4 Singer Carly __ Jepsen
5 George Eastman’s camera
6 Bowl game venue
7 Gravel driveway alternative
8 Golf great Ernie
9 Massive awareness campaign, for short
10 Lavender cousin
11 Japanese financial hub
12 Country south of Saudi Arabia
14 Alpine songs
18 React to a shock
22 “Old chap” speaker
24 Kanga’s kid
25 Stuck (in)
26 Oklahoma city that, when reversed, is a synonym for “eat”
27 New Zealander
29 Dairy farm animal
30 Recoiled
31 D.C. dealmaker
32 Having exclusive information
33 “Cool!”
34 “Dilbert” cry
36 Leg part guarded in soccer
39 Square dance milieu
40 TurboTax pros
41 Chicken piccata toppers
42 Knee injury initials
44 “Get moving!”
45 Savory rice dish
46 Barely ahead
47 Indy competitor
48 New Orleans NFLer
49 “Uncle!”
53 “Puss in Boots” monster
54 Nine-digit IDs
56 “Give us this day __ daily bread”: Matthew
57 Gun lobby org.
58 Rocks in a bar