L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 SUV alternative

6 Say “I do”

9 Tire speed stats

13 Speaker on a dais

15 Rd. crosser

16 “Pick me! Pick me!”

17 Closely held conviction

19 Peeved

20 Top combat pilots

21 Yahoo! alternative

22 Nickel or copper

23 Sport with flying saucers

26 College level HS course

30 Novel thought

31 For all to hear

32 Reward for giving a

pawshake, perhaps

36 Limit, with “in”

37 Gem State capital

39 Wide valley

40 Organ that produces

insulin

42 Classic breath mint

43 Microwave

44 Ceramic cooker for a

classic Boston dish

46 Blue toon in green

overalls and a straw hat

50 Shiny and smooth

51 “__ you happy now?”

52 “Poor Things” Oscar

winner Stone

56 “Please clap now!”

57 Formal sleeve style

60 Fail to include

61 Sweets

62 __ sauce: seafood

condiment

63 Pea homes

64 Colorado Plateau Native

65 Bonkers

DOWN

1 Furniture to crash on

2 Rapper Eazy-E's

given name

3 Truth alternative,

in a party game

4 Money dispensers

5 Noodle

6 Cries and cries

7 Genesis figure

8 Rock's __ Leppard

9 Site of many outdoor presidential press conferences

10 Shutterstock

image

11 “Little Bunny Foo Foo”

lesson, e.g.

12 Tchotchke holder

14 Guides into adulthood

18 Daily Planet reporter

Lane

22 “__ me halfway”

23 Short-term trend

24 Short get-to-know-you

pieces

25 Precipice

26 Group with a Staying

Sharp program

27 Impassioned cry

28 Nickel or copper

29 Cold cuts

32 Insult

33 Old West icon Wyatt

34 Midrange voice

35 Experiment

37 Fozzie, for one

38 Horse feed grains

41 Stink to high heaven

42 Half-__: coffee blend

44 Insult

45 Standing tall

46 Camera lens setting, and a feature of both ends of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57- Across?

47 San Antonio field trip site

48 Tried again

49 Irish novelist Binchy

52 Eggshell shade

53 Pup of unknown origin

54 Some drama degs.

55 Questlove's hairstyle

57 Winter malady

58 Dull routine

59 Solo of “Star Wars”