LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Some twitches 5 Cicada predators 10 Challenges for

nannies 14 Compatriot 15 Bracelet spot 16 “Smashing!” 17 Official portraitist for a Mongolian leader?

19 “Water for Elephants” novelist Gruen 20 Sinus infection

woes

21 Sheer 22 Suddenly

become alert 23 Tone down 25 Condiment for an

Ottoman leader? 31 __ curls

34 Tends to a draft 35 Paris street 36 R&B singer

Redding 37 Hitches 38 Cartoon girl who often says “Swiper, no swiping” to a masked fox 39 Web

40 Afternoon hr. 41 Creator of a

cocky hare 42 Paltry stipend for a Middle Eastern leader? 45 Scoreboard count 46 Effect

50 Thrones 53 Alcoves 55 Stretched to the

max

56 Humble abode for

an Arab leader? 58 Hobby farm

measure

59 Horror or mystery 60 Haitian friend 61 Comparison word 62 Jacket wool 63 Coat with gold leaf

DOWN

1 Points of view 2 Omar of

Congress 3 Civil War nurse

Barton 4 Automatic transmission parts?

By Robin Stears

5 Pop art icon played by Bowie in “Basquiat” 6 Chip in a new pot 7 Goes downhill

fast

8 “__ fix thx!” 9 Complete group 10 Keeping up (with) 11 Impossible

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12 Peel

13 Lead

18 Cause trouble 21 Exploits

23 “The Imitation Game” encryption machine

24 Some 2BR

listings

26 Creeds

27 Go with the flow 28 Aces

29 Italian bread? 30 Use a scythe on +LS KRS·V

__ Thugs-nHarmony

32 Thing

33 Big name in

credit cards 37 Huffy state 38 High-pile carpet

style 40 Numbered piece

41 High spots 43 Raising a stink? 44 Barely cut 47 “Ditto,” more

formally

48 Poet DayLewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake 49 Expressed

disapproval

50 RBI or ERA

51 A pop

52 Vibe picked up by a psychic, supposedly 53 Russo who plays Frigga in 0DUYHO·V ´7KRUµ films

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56 Rank above cpl. 57 Fell