LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mail in 6 Hair-raising

experiences? 11 Bare-bones

sleeper

14 Egypt’s Mubarak 15 Font that’s a homophone for a mermaid 16 Color

17 *Closest to the rail, at Churchill Downs

19 Mitch

McConnell’s org. 20 Balance sheet

category

21 “Love Story”

author Segal 23 The Big Easy,

locally

26 Works

27 Get one’s

bearings 28 Refines, as ore 30 Loads

31 “Dandy for your teeth” old toothpaste 32 Guffaw 35 Ambulance

letters 36 Comment about routine work

... and hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues 38 Wee, in Dundee 39 Apply gently 40 Novgorod nos 41 Financial news

channel

42 Judge of

baseball, for one 44 Pakistani

metropolis 46 Jolson classic 48 Dispensed (with) 49 Privilege of playing first, in golf 50 Kid’s retort 52 Latin 101 verb 53 *It may be used with a grunt or two

58 Network

soliciting donors 59 Spry 60 Stubborn 61 Atlanta-toCharleston dir. 62 Evaluated 63 Everly Brothers

song sleepyhead

DOWN

1 Pi follower

2 Ages and ages 3 Casper winter

hrs.

4 Consumes eagerly 5 Connects

logically 6 See-through

sheets 7 Once, old-style 8 Social reformer

Jacob

9 Magazine with “The Lighter

Side of...” features 10 Where apnea might be diagnosed 11 *Suzanne

Somers’ “Three’s Company” role 12 Prevention unit 13 Many Microsoft

employees

18 “It __ fair!”

22 Tire track 23 Famous

24 Bakery draw 25 *Barely triumphs 26 Napa prefix 28 Overflow

29 Some mil. brass 31 “Understood” 33 Eclipse shadow 34 Country singer Musgraves with six Grammys 36 Cochlea site 37 Child

41 Loire Valley sight 43 2021, por

ejemplo

44 __ cod: Pacific

Coast catch 45 “Totes __!”: really

cute

46 Fitness magazine 47 Development

sites

48 Like morning

grass 50 Somewhat

51 Part

54 JFK alternative 55 Pacino and

Capone

56 Water __ 57 Hurricane center