LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One-named “Baby Beluga” singer

6 EMT skill 9 Longtime

Thinkpad maker 12 With 12-Down, mantra on embracing difficulty

13 Bun holder 15 Incentives

16 “It’s curtains for

me!”

17 Río contents 18 __ roast: Sunday

entrée

20 Grace of “Will &

Grace”

21 __ Andreas

Fault

22 With 22-Down, idiom meaning “easy peasy” 24 Party coolerful

25 Young’uns

27 Lizzo genre 28 Exams for srs. 29 Gobble (up) 30 With 30-Down, aphorism excusing misconduct that

didn’t cause

damage 32 Simple camera

setting 34 Mcflurry cookies 36 Sleeping

sickness carrier 40 __ bene

42 Part of a schmear campaign?

43 __ gin fizz 44 With 44-Down, expression describing an absence without leave

46 Baseball hats 48 Golden Rule

preposition

50 Jekyll’s alter ego

51 Unopened 52 Most aged 54 Barnyard bird 55 Floppy

successors 57 Members of a

cabal, maybe 59 __ projection 60 Acts like a helicopter parent

61 Get beaten by 62 Worker’s hourly

pay

DOWN

1 Domed building 2 Samoan capital 3 Best-liked, in

texts

4 1980s Pontiacs 5 “Long story

short ... ” 6 Nabisco brand 7 Tennis pundit

Shriver

8 Poet Dove 9 Home of Firenze 10 Halve 11 Scotland yards? 12 See 12-Across 14 __ and reel 15 Mardi Gras

accessories 19 Wall, in Spanish 22 See 22-Across 23 Practice boxing 26 “Dang!”

28 Kiss

30 See 30-Across 31 Silver State city 33 __ Aviv 35 “Don’t move!” 36 “No Scrubs” pop

trio

37 Real blanketyblank

38 Aces

39 Takes interest,

maybe

41 Catkin trees 44 See 44-Across 45 Fresnel __: lighthouse installation 47 Promised 49 Part of STEM,

briefly

52 Home of the

Munch Museum 53 Brand of sport

sandals

55 Baseball’s “Iron

Man” Ripken 56 Bath rug

58 “The Princess Diaries” novelist Cabot