LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gave a darn 6 Personal bearing 10 Spongy earth 14 __ and kicking 15 Like a quaint shoppe

16 Unknown author, for short

17 Hors d’oeuvre often seasoned with paprika

19 Looped in, on email

20 Corp. VIP

21 Quite

22 Infant’s cry

23 Skin pictures 25 Calm and dignified

28 Picnic side dish

31 Double-reed woodwind 34 Charged particle 35 Helena’s st. 36 Creamy dip for buffalo wings

40 __ mater

41 “__ moved on” 42 Parrot in Disney’s “Aladdin”

43 New England seafood sandwich 47 Securities backed by the govt. 48 Fought

53 Raw mineral in a mine

54 Supermarket area with fresh cheeses 56 Hitchhiker’s hope 57 Foggy state 59 Minnesota medical center, or where one might learn how to prepare 17-, 28-, 36-, and 43-Across? 61 Scat legend Fitzgerald

62 Brick __ pizza 63 Tiny spot 64 Overly compliant 65 Floating ice chunk

66 Auto body blemishes

DOWN

1 Military academy enrollee

2 Name said to activate an Amazon Echo Dot

3 Fastener in a girder

4 Kick out

5 Oscar winner Benicio __ Toro

6 Not showy

7 Actor Robert who hosts the podcast “Not Today, Pal” with former co-star Jamie-Lynn Sigler 8 Envelope-pushing 9 Opposite of pos. 10 Expensive nut from Hawaii 11 Advance slowly 12 Fish-to-be 13 Conclude 18 Sauteing acronym

22 Director Craven 24 Oil cartel acronym

25 “The Brady Bunch” trio

26 Dance that takes two

27 NYC summer hrs. 29 TV station, e.g.

30 Shoe front 31 Wrinkle-resistant synthetic fabric 32 Hoodwink 33 Winning game after game 37 Makes haste 38 Binge-watcher’s device

39 River sediment 40 PC key near the space bar

44 Casual shirt 45 Like a kiwi 46 Not of the clergy

49 Utter nonsense 50 Lightweight fabric

51 Formal decree

3/18/24

52 Cruise ship levels

54 Singer Grohl who founded the Foo Fighters

55 Watchful sort

57 __ and haw 58 Hoppy beer 59 Disorderly crowd

60 1960s hallucinogen, for short