LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS

1

A little of this, a little of that

8 Common packing

list item

15 Transpose

16 Italian music festival city that inspired Eurovision

17 Twist expert?

18 Gets off the

fence

19 Gets down?

20 Expert

22 Votre et ma

23 She’s Frankie on “Grace and Frankie”

24 Shepard and

Bean

26 Don’t stay in one

place

27 Jargon suffix

28 Dazzled

30 QB effort

31 Weight training

exercise

33 Oil-rich peninsula 35 Hardly symbiotic 37 Financier Edward

Francis __

40 Culinary knife cut producing tiny cubes

44 Repulsed

reaction

45 Stray

47 Snow

48 Snow traveler 50 Julie of the “Before” film trilogy

51 Half up

front?

52 Spent

54 Act for, for

short

55 Material for

“Suits”

56 Current with

the wind

58 “How stupid of

me!”

60 Magazine that annually runs the

Black Women in Hollywood Awards

61 Last of eight

62 Pick a fight

63 Unceremoniously dropped nowadays

DOWN

1

More than just questioned

2 Bold poker

move

3 Fictional Prince Edward Island community

4 __ straw

5 Ritual for some

eight-day-olds 6 Buridan’s __: philosophical paradox 7 “Surely you can do better things with your time!” 8 Rise

9 Code word

10 Sans attribution,

for short

11 Jury swayer

12 Destination of

many a tube

13 Honored retirees 14 Stone home

21 Singingly, in

music

24 Joined (with)

25 Navy tour, e.g. 28 Vein flower

29 Spy in the air,

maybe

32 EPA-banned

insecticide

34 Long tail?

36 Blocking the

escape routes of 37 “Side” jobs

38 Most frightful

39 “Long Island Medium” star __ Caputo

41 Treats in an unfriendly way, in slang

42 Unspecified soul 43 Isolated, in a way 46 “Pippin” Tony

winner

49 Turn aside

51 Sword handles

53 Force

55 The “C” in the musical instruction “D.C. al fine”

57 601, to Virgil

59 Unenthusiastic

review