LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mint
9 “__ luck!”
14 Long way to go?
15 Porter, for one
16 Ancient language in which “ir” means “the” 17 Shaky
18 Console with Party and Fit games
19 Briefly appeared
21 Go where one shouldn’t
22 Hitch
24 Dance company founder Ailey 25 Belt
26 Superficial 28 Kinsey research focus
29 River valley known for Riesling
30 “... to so __”: Churchill
32 Part of an outmoded garage set
34 Exploit a position of trust
38 Arranges for deferred payment
39 Symbolic 100%
40 Waiting expectation
41 Higher ed. hurdle
43 Smartwater rival
46 Mad magazine caricaturist Drucker
47 Stabilizing components 49 Stable gear
51 Go __
52 Small sailing ship
54 First name of two Spice Girls
55 Bit of needlework
57 Island nation in Oceania
59 Very hot celestial orbs
60 Generic confrontation
61 Lesser number?
62 Ring-necked bird
DOWN
1 Squanders
2 Getting agitated 3 Radio control
4 “Spring the trap!”
5 Vestige
6 Nabisco name since 1967
7 Unpopular debuts of 1957
8 “This just isn’t working” 9 Advance
10 Clod
11 Security element that may be detected by Silly String
12 Peppers between jalapeño and tabasco on the Scoville scale
13 “M*A*S*H” unit 15 “Très __”
20 Add
23 Fragrance assortment, e.g.
25 Show mastery of
27 “Joy Shtick” writer
29 Balm of Gilead, for one
31 __ bar
33 Missouri’s Cori Bush, e.g.: Abbr.
34 First of many steps
35 Continental rider’s purchase, once
36 Big name in racing
37 Wild party
42 Quenya or Sindarin, in fiction
44 Company whose logo is interlocking tuning forks
45 Blackjack combo
47 “Get Smart” org.
48 Be of use
50 “The Kiss” painter
52 Workout focus
53 “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” novelist See
56 Bit
58 “Mic Drop” band