LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cutting-edge name?

5 Scenery in Road Runner cartoons 10 Polite address 14 “Sorry, my hands are tied ... ” 16 Price for hand delivery? 17 Musical arrangement? 18 Revolution

19 “I rock!”

20 Class stat

21 “Can confirm” 22 Mystery that may have a stirring message?

26 Bon __

29 Place 30 Unpredictable jerk 31 Checked 34 Aegean capital 37 Folk dance

38 Like all tigers 40 Draft status 41 Continues

43 Run ragged

45 “__ Gabler” 47 U.N. agency 48 Misery

49 Popular performer 53 “Yeah, no” 54 Bread machine 55 Source of some lumber

59 Audio brand 60 Bridal store event 63 Central German river

64 “Deep breaths ... ” 65 Ms. enclosure 66 Unlikely assignment from a math teacher 67 Pinch at the table

DOWN

1 A bit off 2 Australian novelist Astley

3 Somewhat blue 4 Cyclotron units 5 Publication credited to the “Usual Gang of Idiots”

6 Wrap

7 Military blockade 8 Makes fit

9 Array for catching rays 10 Disappearing act? 11 “I’m waiting ... ” 12 Aweigh

13 “With Reagan” memoirist 15 Advances slowly 23 Relocation option 24 USPS assignments 25 “Have some” 26 Helgenberger of “CSI”

27 Cookie with the same colors as a crossword 28 Construction projects guaranteed to get off the ground 32 Neither here nor

there

33 “Rainbow in the

Dark” metal band 35 Fictional Wolfe 36 Drink that may be

served warm 39 Brand with a Vanessa Hudgens workout collection 42 Like 2021 44 Educator Annemarie who co-founded a school in Greater Detroit

46 Sites for some

rites

49 Products with

triple the power? 50 Sitcom whose 1974 pilot episode was titled “Joe” 51 Awards won by

50-Down 52 Climbs

56 Beyonce voice

role

57 Airline whose first flight was from Geneva to Tel Aviv 58 Have a heated

exchange? 61 School org.

62 “The Thin Man”

star