LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Starfleet
Academy student
6 “Ain’t gonna happen” 10 Mattress support
piece
14 Fruit on a cocktail
toothpick
15 Lyft rival
16 Opera house level 17 *Hurdles for would-be attorneys
20 “Take a load off” 21 Toothpaste
dispensers
22 Group of eight 23 Break bread 24 More formal than
business casual 25 *Rural byway
29 Beyoncé’s “Best
__ I Never Had” 30 Made for __ other
31 Pampering place 34 Make mad 35 TGIF part 37 Growth on an old
loaf
38 “Woo-hoo!” 39 Cold feet
40 Light supper 41 *Clarinet, bassoon, etc., in an orchestra 44 Arcade coins
47 Backyard storage for hoes and hoses
48 Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Kofi 49 Spud, informally 51 __ Dhabi
54 Things to “see” in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? 57 “Bloodline” actor
Chandler
58 Part of a plot 59 Windy City airport 60 Fly off the shelves 61 “To __ It May
Concern”
62 Narrow openings
DOWN
1 Corn discards
2 Jai __: Basque
game
3 Earth
4 December 24
or 31
5 Tapping out
messages 6 Digit 7 Award similar to
a Tony
8 Farm structures
9 Timeline segment 10 Like cold cuts 11 Ransacks
12 Youngest
“Despicable Me”
daughter 13 Peevish 18 Grandma’s
daughter
19 Bar mitzvah scroll 23 Two-part sci-fi
epic starring Timothée Chalamet
24 Charging station 25 Novelty “pet”
that’s really a
plant
26 Greasy
27 Quite a while 28 Took off
29 Give it a go
31 Guitar Hero challenge 32 Architectural drawing 33 Throw in 35 Change for a 50,
maybe 36 Possessed 37 Rosie on “The
Jetsons,” for one 39 Helsinki
inhabitants 40 Sound systems 41 Ferret kin
42 Respect highly 43 “Believe”
Grammy winner 44 Bulletin board
pins
45 BLT option 46 Small hill
49 Film crew
employee 50 __-Cuban jazz 51 Blueberrylike berry
52 Ernie’s
“Sesame Street” pal
53 Finds a purpose
for
55 Uncooked
56 Stanley Cup org.