Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday May 14th 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Improve one’s class? : SKIP A GRADE
11 Quick : RAPID
16 Alcopop kin : WINE COOLER
17 Bring out : EDUCE
18 Single, but way too flawed : UNDATEABLE
19 Giant : TITAN
20 Polish site : NAIL
21 “Git!” : SCAT
22 Nucleotide triplet : CODON
23 Test for some srs. : GRE
24 Cena of “Peacemaker” : JOHN
25 Mariah Carey holiday hit : OH SANTA
27 Resort town named for a native tree : ASPEN
29 Mixed __ : BLESSING
30 Full of nervous energy : RESTLESS
33 “The Rotters’ Club” novelist Jonathan : COE
34 Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor : UNDER THE DESK NEWS
39 Milne hopper : ROO
40 Famished : RAVENOUS
41 Holiness : SANCTITY
44 Étouffée option : PRAWN
47 Arctic wear : ANORAKS
48 1856 Stowe novel : DRED
50 Umbrella spoke : RIB
52 Word in British placenames : SHIRE
53 Natural satellite : MOON
54 “Have it your way” : FINE
55 Dong-hyuk who created “Squid Game” : HWANG
56 “Can I have a bit more time?” : TEN MINUTES
58 Make one : MERGE
59 Wheelie bike feature : BANANA SEAT
60 Mascot whose weight is listed as “Top Heavy” : MR MET
61 Challenges for a translator, perhaps : SLANG TERMS
DOWN
1 Chased a pitch : SWUNG
2 Kwanzaa candelabra : KINARA
3 West __ : INDIES
4 Toll : PEAL
5 Do one’s part? : ACT
6 Walks out, say : GOES ON STRIKE
7 Laurel and Hardy producer : ROACH
8 First British martyr : ALBAN
9 Scapula neighbor, for short : DELT
10 Long start, once : ERE
11 Throw again : RETOSS
12 Brand whose website has a “3 Stripe Life” section : ADIDAS
13 Table : PUT ON ICE
14 “Maybe later” : I CAN’T NOW
15 Cozy spot : DEN
22 Queen’s gambit, for one : CHESS OPENING
24 Raspberry : JEER
25 Elizabeth who plays Scarlet Witch in the MCU : OLSEN
26 Improves, maybe : AGES
28 Tense beginning? : PRE-
29 Eliot title hero : BEDE
31 “__ how I roll” : THAT’S
32 Tax : LEVY
34 Bear up? : URSA
35 “It went straight to voice mail” : NO ANSWER
36 2014 memoir subtitled “Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery” : DO NO HARM
37 Western Asia native : KURD
38 Govt. cybersecurity monitor : NSA
42 [I’m so uncomfortable right now] : CRINGE
43 Retailer with a RedCard credit card : TARGET
45 Bell hooks, for one : WRITER
46 Time slot with talk shows : NINE AM
48 Part of DKNY : DONNA
49 “Succession” sibling : ROMAN
51 Tops : BESTS
53 Happy __ : MEAL
54 Make one : FUSE
55 “Let me think … ” : HMM
56 “Full Frontal” network : TBS
57 D.C. player : NAT
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