L.A. Times Crossword

Solutions on Page 25

ACROSS

1 Fancy alternative to a

classic necktie

6 Time sheet abbr.

9 Meat salad from Laos

13 Shop

14 Informal assent

15 Third-longest

African river

16 “Push It” hip-hop

trio

18 Verdi work

19 “Am _ _ picky?”

20 Mattel game based

on Crazy Eights

21 Spoke monotonously

22 Omen

23 Mardi Gras

25 Traveler’s stopover

26 Hypotheticals

27 Crumb-carrying

critter

28 App annoyances

29 Microbe

31 Freeze over

33 Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across

37 Extinct birds

38 Russian denial

40 Foldable bed

43 2016 Summer Olympics city 44 Meditation sounds 46 Period of history

48 Inclination to use

biting sarcasm

51 Quick cut

52 Say again

53 GPS suggestion

54 Support staff

member

55 Artist’s stand

56 “Feels like” figure that combines temperature and humidity

58 Foul moods

59 “I _ _ your pardon?”

60 “Basic Instinct” actress Sharon 61 IRS IDs

62 Poem of praise 63 Puts a stop to

DOWN

1 Birthplace of St.

Francis

2 Announcing

3 Choices at perfume

counters

4 WWE champion Randy who had a long rivalry with John Cena

5 Low card in a royal

flush

6 African scavengers whose cries sound like laughter

7 Transplant in the

greenhouse

8 Relaxation station 9 Slimming surgeries,

informally

10 Meeting outline

11 Go over again, as a

contract

12 Blended sitcom

family of classic TV

15 “All sales are final”

17 Bit of smoke

21 Sand formations

24 Snack in a shell

26 Mount Olympus

dwellers, e.g.

30 “Awesome!”

31 Allstate’s industry:

Abbr.

32 Foot the bill

34 “American _ _”: rock musical based on a Green Day album

35 Twelve sharp

36 Many a Disney

Channel star

39 Poseidon’s staff

40 Gentle touch

41 Quite a lot

42 Deflects through a

basketball rim

44Electrical interruption

45 Run into

47 Pinnacles

49 Info, slangily

50 Avarice

51 Father Christmas

56 “Barry” cable

network

57 “Or so” suffix