LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Support that’s
often rigged 5 Role,
metaphorically 8 Pair sharing a <3 necklace, probably 12 Instruments in some Gershwin works
15 “I don’t mind __ /
Except as meals.
/ And the way
they feels”: Nash 16 Tabula rasa 18 Joie de vivre 19 Susan who wrote,
“The writer’s first
job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth” 20 Sources of
fleeting joy? 22 “Wrong hand,
silly”
26 Active front?
27 Postulant 28 Grace period? 31 “Toodles!”
33 Tree on the
Lebanese flag 34 Latin law
35 Place to get high
and pass out? 37 Rx writers, often 38 Device that requires spin control 40 Inoculation fluids 41 Literary alter ego 42 Self-consoling
sigh
44 Animal in Aboriginal cave
paintings
46 Line on a
handwriting test 50 One of two tarot
card groups 51 Went viral
53 State whose road signs feature 8-Downs
54 Academic term
57 Nice parent 58 Dessert with a
high point
59 Son of Hera 60 GRE org.
61 Like a fly ball to
the warning track
DOWN
1 Safari runners 2 Heterogenous
union
3 One working with a dictator 4 Perfectly
5 Lacks options 6 Rose up on
stage
7 Leaves in a pot 8 Symbol of
53-Across
9 Was awash in
euphoria 10 Study aid 11 Three-part fig. 13 Bag
14 Eyelid issue 17 Make dough or
bread 21 Earthenware
vessel
23 Bags 24 Breeding
grounds 25 Clipped 28 Wiped out 29 One having a
cow?
30 Not well-done in
the least 32 Derived from
gold
35 Brandon __: Hilary Swank’s “Boys Don’t Cry”
role
36 Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black
Panther’s suits
39 Tours of duty 41 Sweet 43 Fox holes 45 “Mine! Mine! Mine!” criers in “Finding Nemo” 47 Small pouches 48 Poetic contraction 49 Polished
52 Get set
53 Actress Thurman 55 Rowing
implement?
56 Many times o’er