L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Improve one's class? 11 Quick 16 Alcopop kin 17 Bring out 18 Single, but way too flawed 19 Giant 20 Polish site 21 “Git!” 22 Nucleotide triplet 23 Test for some srs. 24 Cena of “Peacemaker” 25 Mariah Carey holiday hit 27 Resort town named for a native tree 29 Mixed __ 30 Full of nervous energy 33 “The Rotters' Club” novelist Jonathan 34 Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor 39 Milne hopper 40 Famished 41 Holiness 44 Étouffée option 47 Arctic wear 48 1856 Stowe novel 50 Umbrella spoke 52 Word in British placenames 53 Natural satellite 54 “Have it your way” 55 Dong-hyuk who created “Squid Game” 56 “Can I have a bit more time?” 58 Make one 59 Wheelie bike feature 60 Mascot whose weight is listed as “Top Heavy” 61 Challenges for a translator, perhaps

DOWN 1 Chased a pitch 2 Kwanzaa candelabra 3 West __ 4 Toll 5 Do one's part? 6 Walks out, say 7 Laurel and Hardy producer 8 First British martyr 9 Scapula neighbor, for short 10 Long start, once 11 Throw again 12 Brand whose website has a “3 Stripe Life” section 13 Table 14 “Maybe later” 15 Cozy spot 22 Queen's gambit, for one 24 Raspberry 25 Elizabeth who plays Scarlet Witch in the MCU 26 Improves, maybe 28 Tense beginning? 29 Eliot title hero 31 “__ how I roll” 32 Tax 34 Bear up? 35 “It went straight to voice mail” 36 2014 memoir subtitled “Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery” 37 Western Asia native 38 Govt. cybersecurity monitor 42 [I'm so uncomfortable right now] 43 Retailer with a RedCard credit card 45 Bell hooks, for one 46 Time slot with talk shows 48 Part of DKNY 49 “Succession” sibling 51 Tops 53 Happy __ 54 Make one 55 “Let me think ... “56 “Full Frontal” network 57 D.C. player