LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Technique providing percussion with a string note 9 Character in “The Iliad” but not “The Odyssey”? 14 Summer pick-meup
15 Use as a bed 16 Spicy Mexican food
17 Extract metal from
18 Surg. sites
19 Ivy near an Acela stop
20 Ado
21 Big rings
23 NBA writer Zach 25 Question of method
26 Durango, por ejemplo
28 Crudely built city? 31 Many of today’s pro athletes
34 Total area?
35 Result of an imagined draft 36 Gum with Ice and Fire varieties 37 Riverbed deposit 41 B. A. Baracus portrayer 42 Warning accompanying a link
45 Ideal spots 46 Doomed 16thcentury force 49 Criminal charges
51 Bon __
52 Pressly of “Mom” 53 Subdivision showcase 55 Jeanette’s “Macbeth” (1948) co-star 56 Lenses 57 Touch-and-go 58 Blessings
DOWN
1 Makes a point? 2 Unleashes on
3 Big letters in security services 4 Is far from a good sport
5 Perennial #1
NCAA football team since 2008 6 Even slightly 7 Fifth-cen. pope called “The
Great”
8 Monkey’s do partner?
9 As well
10 Long way to go? 11 Look here! 12 Depressions 13 __ Jamison, one of two NBA players with 20,000+ points who’s not in the Hall of Fame
14 “From your mouth to God’s ears”
20 Rears
22 Feel bad about 24 Succeeded in
27 1992 Mamet drama
29 Three-time WNBA MVP
30 Synagogue text
32 Performs surgery on, in a way 33 Cambridgeshire cathedral city
34 Like a sure thing 35 Company founded in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni
36 Key of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 38 Submission to a radio station, briefly
39 Garden guardians 40 Will of “Blue Bloods”
43 Ice cream alternative, casually
44 Moved between banks, maybe 47 Berserk
48 Refuse
50 Amps (up) 53 Once-big storage unit that’s now quite small
54 Farm female