LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Got out of bed

6 “I double-dog __

you!”

10 Inventor’s need

14 Off-the-wall 15 Ill-fated biblical

brother

16 Front page

material 17 All-you-can-eat

restaurant regular? 19 Discovery

Channel’s

“Shark __” 20 Water and Wall

in NYC

21 Sunset locale 22 Bit of advice 23 Urge

24 “I like it!” 28 Cemetery

connoisseur? 31 Asparagus unit 33 IOUS 34 Software-made FX 35 Late-night TV

pioneer Jack 36 Capital city near

the Sphinx 37 __-a-brac

38 Earth Day mo. 39 Carried 40 Campaign poster

imperative 41 Obsessive Christmas-season ballet attendee? 44 Fill to the brim 45 The “A” of IPA 46 Elev.

47 Epic story

49 In the past 52 Greek queen of

heaven 54 Trumpet flourish

aficionado? 57 Baking soda target 58 Deceitful sort 59 “Monty Python

and the Holy __” 60 Taverns

61 Former constellation named for a mythological ship 62 Before the deadline

DOWN

1 Priestly robes 2 Embarrassing

loss 3 Punch-in-the-gut

reactions 4 Sunscreen letters 5 Glasses,

monocles, etc. 6 Applies gently 7 Be next to

8 NFL arbiter

9 Will Ferrell

Christmas film 10 A crony of 11 Closely held

confidence 12 Lamb nurser

13 “That’s a pretty

big __”

18 Be inclined (to) 22 Bolos and ascots 23 52 19-Acrosses 24 Evening party 25 “Do __ others ... ”

26 Marie Kondo’s

“The Lifechanging __ of Tidying Up” 27 Official order 28 Hunk on a magazine cover, e.g.

29 Hard to find

30 Rack one’s

brains

31 Extends across 32 __ New Guinea 36 Dredge in flour before cooking, e.g. 37 Cookie Monster’s

color 39 Ill-behaved child 40 Make bigger 42 Stogies 43 Anoushka Shankar’s music

genre

47 Minor impediment 48 Frequent hairstyle for Diana Ross and Tracee Ellis Ross 5/9/22 49 Off in the

distance 50 “Wonder Woman” comic book writer Simone

51 Mere

52 Imitate a bunny 53 Academic

address ending 54 Ga. neighbor 55 Balloon filler 56 Stat for a pitcher