L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gave a darn

6 Personal bearing

10 Spongy earth

14 __ and kicking

15 Like a quaint shoppe

16 Unknown author,

for short

17 Hors d'oeuvre often

seasoned with paprika

19 Looped in, on email

20 Corp. VIP

21 Quite

22 Infant's cry

23 Skin pictures

25 Calm and dignified

28 Picnic side dish

31 Double-reed woodwind

34 Charged particle

35 Helena's st.

36 Creamy dip for

buffalo wings

40 __ mater

41 “__ moved on”

42 Parrot in Disney's

“Aladdin”

43 New England seafood

sandwich

47 Securities backed

by the govt.

48 Fought

53 Raw mineral in a mine

54 Supermarket area with

fresh cheeses 56 Hitchhiker's hope

57 Foggy state

59 Minnesota medical center, or where one might learn how to prepare 17-, 28-, 36-, and 43-Across?

61 Scat legend Fitzgerald

62 Brick __ pizza

63 Tiny spot

64 Overly compliant

65 Floating ice chunk

66 Auto body blemishes

DOWN

1 Military academy

enrollee

2 Name said to activate

an Amazon Echo Dot

3 Fastener in a girder

4 Kick out

5 Oscar winner

Benicio __ Toro

6 Not showy

7 Actor Robert who hosts the podcast “Not Today, Pal” with former co-star Jamie-Lynn Sigler

8 Envelope-pushing

9 Opposite of pos.

10 Expensive nut

from Hawaii

11 Advance slowly

12 Fish-to-be 13 Conclude

18 Sauteing

acronym

22 Director Craven

24 Oil cartel acronym

25 “The Brady Bunch” trio

26 Dance that takes two

27 NYC summer hrs.

29 TV station, e.g.

30 Shoe front

31 Wrinkle-resistant

synthetic fabric

32 Hoodwink

33 Winning game after game

37 Makes haste

38 Binge-watcher's device

39 River sediment

40 PC key near

the space bar

44 Casual shirt

45 Like a kiwi

46 Not of the clergy

49 Utter nonsense

50 Lightweight fabric

51 Formal decree

52 Cruise ship levels

54 Singer Grohl who

founded the Foo Fighters

55 Watchful sort

57 __ and haw

58 Hoppy beer

59 Disorderly crowd

60 1960s hallucinogen,

for short