LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cert. for some babysitters 4 Golden St. region

9 Chase a fly, maybe 13 Summer arrival

14 “Sweet Love” singer Baker 15 Maker of G-Shock watches 17 Sci-fi invaders 18 *Traditional Thanksgiving entree

20 Venezuelan cornmeal cake

22 “Big Blue”

23 Certain sib

24 *Feature of anxiety, often 28 N. Dak. neighbour 29 Egyptian boy king 30 Novelist Jaffe

31 Mean monster

32 Cultural no-nos 34 Successful dogcatcher, e.g. 35 *The “order” part of a “Law & Order” episode

37 “Or even less”

40 Hardly fresh

42 Alexander Hamilton’s birth island

43 __-false test

44 This minute

46 Trashy place?

47 *Piano lesson pages 50 Words of agreement 51 Big part of an alligator 52 Bygone anesthetic 53 “Enough already!” or what one may do to each answer to a starred clue 58 “How Easy Is That?” cookbook writer Garten 59 Aromatic bulb

60 Brief appearance in a film 61 Tony winner Vereen 62 Group after boomers 63 City considered Japan’s cultural capital

64 Biblical craft

DOWN

1 See-through 2 Domesticated rodent 3 Circular diamond shape 4 See-through wrap 5 Grammy-winning Yoko 6 “Homeland” org.

7 @ signs

8 Sonia Sotomayor, for one 9 Film on a pond

10 “This means __!”

11 Invites to dinner, maybe 12 Connect with

16 Raw bar mollusk

19 Letters on an incomplete schedule

21 Crunchy hummus scooper 25 Backsplash binder 26 “Wuthering Heights” setting 27 About to happen 28 Nattily dressed snack food mascot

31 Rager

33 Feathery accessories 34 Military rookie 36 Whodunit board game 37 “Closer to Fine” duo __ Girls

38 In a row?

39 Lifetime channel offering 41 Japanese electronics giant

43 Hitting sound

45 Ballpark frank

47 Won at musical chairs 48 “I feel the same way” 49 Curmudgeon

51 Curse

54 Geologic time unit

55 Line in a child’s drawing of the sun

56 Full of feelings

57 “Quiet on the __!”