LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Seek divine
intervention 5 Calc
prerequisite 9 Secretly keeps
in the email loop 13 Pride month 14 1980s tennis
star Mandlíková 15 “Here comes
trouble”
16 Red line on a
baseball
17 Love, in Spanish 18 Impolite
19 Not making the
grade
22 Popcorn bit 24 Decide on 27 Physician’s gp. 28 Every time 31 Notable time 32 Arizona county 34 Pickling herb 35 Time for cake
and prezzies 36 Mobile virtual network offered by a tech giant 39 Paradise
41 “Just joking!” 44 Evergreen native to the rocky elevations of Big Sur 50 Dada pioneer
Jean
51 Defeated in a hot dog contest, say 52 Self-confidence 53 Bamako’s
country 55 Mouth
puckering 56 “Smooth
Operator” singer 57 Jack London short story about survival in the Yukon Territory, and the goal of this puzzle? 60 Maghrib prayer
leaders
61 Not better 62 Gem weight 63 “The Ant and the Grasshopper” writer
DOWN
1 Bedtime attire,
for short
2 Regret deeply 3 Grand Am for
grandma, e.g. 4 Country south
of Saudi Arabia 5 “Enough
already”
6 Malek of
“Mr. Robot”
7 __ the ground
floor
8 Carved figure on Notre Dame cathedral
9 More than
well-done 10 Quite pleased, in
British slang 11 Fish and chips
fish, often 12 __/her pronouns 20 Steeped
beverage 21 High-level HS
exams
22 “Every kiss begins with __”: jeweler’s slogan 23 Down Under
bird
25 “Let You Love
Me” singer Rita 26 Sunbeam
29 Halloween headpiece 30 __-purpose flour 33 Long, long time 35 Commuter’s two-wheeler 37 Not misled by 38 Late fee
39 All over the map 40 Graduate’s document 42 “Alas, that
seems likely” 43 Do some serious
soul-searching 44 Sound of impact 45 Stringed-instrument player at Renaissance fairs
46 And others,
briefly 47 Item in a magician’s deck
48 Canada’s capital 49 Lobster eggs 54 Letter-shaped
girder 56 Distinguished
gentlemen 58 Thurman of
“Super Pumped” 59 Nemesis