L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Insurance submission 6 Spars on the briny 11 Spanish I verb

14 Vital body vessel 15 Choristers who are usually women

16 Young bloke

17 Get increasingly steamed 19 “Diary of a Wimpy __”: Jeff Kinney book series 20 Home of the NHL's Blues 21 Scrape off

22 Radio hobbyists

23 Rickie Fowler's org.

24 One way to travel 26 Provocative social media tactic

32 Old Italian bread?

34 Jai __

35 Forearm-related

36 Wee hr.

38 Approves

39 Disciple's query

40 “Am not!” retort

41 Spa treatment

43 Bullet __: list highlight 44 Battlefield order

47 __ Mode, designer voiced by Brad Bird in “Incredibles 2”

48 Strive 49 Skinny

51 Sleeping bag closer 55 Getting stuff done, initially

58 “Who, me?”

59 Striking white stripe between a horse's eyes 61 From A to Z

62 Venue with skyboxes 63 Expected

64 Animation frame 65 Venomous snake

66 Hindu spiritual writing

DOWN

1 Despicable dudes 2 Ransack

3 Depleted sea

4 “__ Quiet Uptown”: “Hamilton” song 5 Spanish dessert wine 6 Bryn __ College

7 Goya's “Duchess of __” 8 It may be ear-piercing 9 Bullfight figure 10 ID gradually being omitted from Medicare cards

11 Water's capability to neutralize acid

12 Injure badly

13 Track ratios 18 President who appointed two women to the

Supreme Court 22 Sledding spot

23 “Yes, fine by me” 25 Pierre's “his”

26 Second cup at a diner, e.g.

27 Unite on the sly

28 Spoken for

29 Stairway element 30 Statistician Silver

31 Dire

32 Bakery unit

33 Cross inscription

37 Like harvested hay 42 Video game stage

45 Black ice, e.g.

46 Boeing rival

49 All-in-one Apple

50 Florida State player, familiarly

52 Secured, as a win 53 Source of cones

54 Early late-night

TV host

55 Lacking slack

56 Business magnate 57 Olympics coach Karolyi 59 Tower authority: Abbr. 60 The SEC's Tigers