LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Creates suds 6 Lettuce variety 10 Testy mood 14 Patronized, as a

diner

15 __ Bator: former spelling of

Mongolia’s capital

16 Security

checkpoint device 17 Crooner Mel 18 Tracks on a

muddy road, e.g. 20 *Kitchen fire, for

one

22 To boot

23 __ lodge

24 *Laura Dern’s

“Little Women” role

30 ’60s protest gp.

33 Bed bug?

34 Vaio laptop maker 35 Game, __, match

36 Kylo Ren’s mother

37 Yellowstone

bovine

39 “I Just Wanna Stop” singer Vannelli

40 Square root of

100

41 House overhang

42 Pitcher’s bagful

43 Pvt. address 44 *Lifetime Achievement Award presented to “Sesame Street” in 2009, e.g.

47 Michael of “SNL” 49 Latest 50 Soft-shoe classic, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues 56 Common

sweetener 57 Atlanta Dream co-owner Montgomery 59 “Oh, sure, whatever you say”

60 Wolfe of detective

fiction

61 Try to stop 62 Chilean sea __ 63 Revise

64 Part of an inner

circle?

DOWN

1 Butter or lard 2 Brief “Then

again ... ” 3 Flight-related

prefix

4 Jukebox musical featuring ABBA songs

5 Braced (oneself) 6 Kid’s dismayed

cry

7 Nastase of tennis 8 Mystery writer

Nevada 9 Uncommon

blood type, briefly 10 Two-time Best Actress winner Hilary 11 Self-absorption 12 Very dark

13 NFL scores 19 Like netting 21 Linguistic suffix 24 Island near Sicily 25 “Not __ out of

you!” 26 Thick-skinned

safari beast 27 Valuable quality 28 Milne joey 29 Christiane Amanpour’s channel

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©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/5/22 31 Durable fabric 48 Tom who voices 32 Poker-faced Woody in the 37 Shearing day “Toy Story” films

sound 50 NYC cultural center 38 Creeping vine 51 Unit of force 39 Hits a homer, in 52 1960s TV horse

baseball lingo 53 Cosmonaut 41 Idyllic places Gagarin 42 Loyalty program 54 Not duped by

perks 55 Pay period, for 45 Trendy place some

46 “I could take it or 56 Baby bear

leave it” 58 Poetic “before”