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 jalape–o and tabasco on the Scoville scale

13 “M*A*S*H” unit

15 “Tres __”

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