L.A Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Begin another chapter, e.g.
6 Gets high at a moment's notice?
13 Country name on “The Woman in Me”
14 Cell package
15 Suppressed guffaw
16 Art using locks
17 Verbalize
18 Double over?
19 Grave
20 Bit of tintinnabulation 21 NBA great __ Olajuwon 23 MIT mentors
24 Lilly of pharmaceuticals 25 Insert into an email, as a video
26 Buckets
28 Hard-boiled genre 30 Self-titled 2001 album 31 Voter's choices
32 Worried about losing one's place?
36 Spree
37 Source of trial figures
38 Asian genre influenced by The Beatles
40 Throws out
41 Debt-laden Wall St. deal 42 Small Indian state 43 Hardware with elongated heads
45 Awestruck
46 Game with a 2210 A.D. edition
48 Et __
49 Arcade giant
50 Retirement obstacle
52 Hint at, with “to”
53 Dessert analog to turducken
54 Puts on
55 George Carlin was the first, briefly
56 Firefighter, at times
DOWN
1 Slight fiction
2 Faddish '80s-'90s hairstyles
3 Agents' gathering
4 Level with fans 5 __ trumpet
6 Given a sentence to complete
7 Manuscript with dense notes?
8 Part of a historic 19-Across name
9 Hot rod?
10 Corrida combatant 11 Eponymous explorer of Australia 12 Intentionally overlooks 13 Make one's eyes pop out 14 Nickname for tennis star/prankster Novak Djokovic
18 Icon often pictured with wind-blown hair
21 Chinese ethnic group 22 Ringgit spenders
25 Unable to look away 27 Passing charge
29 Magical power
30 Yanks
32 Post-fall cabal
33 Pressure indicator
34 Part of it was a 2016 campaign issue
35 Cheap smokes
37 Assange of WikiLeaks 38 Hum along, say
39 Scores, with “a”
40 City where Jake Blues was in prison
42 Some movie set techs 44 Hold-up targets
45 Hold-up man?
47 “Mayor” author
49 One not often hitting the high note
51 Leader with a jacket named for him
52 Elastic wood