LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 L.A. Rams’ __ McVay, youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl

5 Fly high

9 Old NCAA football

ranking sys.

12 Regarding

13 Limerick’s land

14 Coagulate

15 Test format with

options

18 Grassland

19 Using pointe

shoes

20 Didn’t stick

around

21 Dojo move

24 Card game requirement, maybe

26 __-pitch

27 Farm female

28 Roman who

defeated Hannibal 31 Triage areas: Abbr. 33 Bat specialty, and what you need to find in four long answers

38 Name in “Kill Bill”

credits

39 Military jeep

successor

41 Aid for the lost

44 They’re not from around here, briefly

46 Lowly worker 47 Nocturnal bird that woke up Vinny in “My Cousin Vinny” 51 Messenger __ 52 As is fitting 53 41-Across, e.g. 55 Cocoa butter confection 58 Golfer’s pocketful 59 Sell on the street 60 Series finale: Abbr. 61 “__ the ramparts …”

62 Dire March time 63 Slithery swimmers

DOWN

1 Longtime Agassi rival

2 Online GEICO

alternative

3 Brit’s pond

4 “It wasn’t me”

5 Photo tint

6 Persian Gulf ships 7 Word shortened to its middle letter, in texts

8 “Parks and __”

9 Devil-may-care 10 Protective

covering

11 So inclined?

14 Large sea snail 16 Bug

17 Soil-moving

implement

22 Jack Ryan portrayer before Harrison 23 Holy scroll

25 Book after

Galatians: Abbr. 29 Chit

30 Ancient

Mesoamerican

32 Guy found running through the alphabet?

34 Court recitation 35 Little terror

36 Give credit where

credit isn’t due

37 Like early

childcare

40 Glossy coats

41 “Scorpion” co-star

Katharine

42 More pretentious 43 Pummels with

snowballs

45 “Us, too”

47 Handled

48 Watch closely

49 Candlemaker’s

supply

50 Mekong Valley

language

54 Musical series set

at McKinley High 56 City with two MLB

teams

57 Possessed