Los Angeles Times

CROSSWORD

- Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis By Doug Peterson and Patti Varol

ACROSS

1 Loves to solve, say? 8 Mavens 14 Sudden and swift 16 Company that annually honors “Women of Worth” 17 Batter’s dream 18 2015 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee 19 Action figures? 20 1954 film based on the short story “It Had to Be Murder” 22 Four-time Australian Open winner 24 LBJ theater 25 Key of Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 27 Fix, as a toy 29 Kisser 32 Weapon with a nock 33 Subatomic particle 34 Former Italian statesman Moro 35 Side with waves 38 Rapper Nate 39 Obligation 40 Copious 41 Second-century date 42 Sister of Dakota 43 Got up 44 Dig for hard-to-get clams? 46 Harder to hold 48 “Ocean’s 11” co-star 51 Dog with a typically blue-black tongue 55 They often drive people home 56 Leave alone 58 Check 59 Tangled up 60 Sturm und Drang novelist 61 Fusible alloys DOWN 1 Shell collection 2 Grant factor 3 Ever so slightly 4 Plays nice 5 Deprive 6 Dormant Turkish volcano 7 Quite a distance 8 Yawn-inducing 9 Corny stuff 10 Staples Center, e.g. 11 Statement before taxes are dealt with? 12 Pecan pie syrup 13 Popular side 15 Bug on the road 21 Remove roughly 23 Rubberneck 25 Tasmanian-born Flynn 26 Appliance brand owned by Electrolux 28 Pangolin snack 30 Oscar winner for “Skyfall” 31 Ask 32 “Rock or Bust” band 33 Kitchen tool 34 Like jousters 36 Cholestero­l letters 37 What’s on the menu 42 Tangle up 43 “You’re lyin’!” 45 Yet to be fulfilled 47 Legal claims 48 Main __ 49 The Aragón feeds it 50 It may precede a deal 52 Bring on 53 River to the Baltic 54 Forms a union 57 Show with Kenan Thompson, briefly

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