LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dangerous Beijing blanket 5 Many an online host 14 Unladen weight 15 Ephemeral emporium 16 Biblical Rodin work 17 Phenomenal

18 Business card abbr. 19 Honduran hands

20 Filing aids

21 May birthstones

23 Not as nice

24 Pay equity concern

25 Word with social or media 27 Muse with a lyre

28 Classical theaters

29 Brit’s nap

32 Georgia neighbor

34 Its capital is St. George’s 37 Lille lily

38 Ostrichlike bird

40 Industrial heavyweight 41 Deplete

43 Economic curve

44 Brief aides?

46 Precursor of today’s musical

theater

48 Mackerel type

49 Make short work of the test 50 Subside

51 “Point taken”

53 Woody Guthrie, e.g.

54 Like some feuds

55 Brief bio

56 Ergo

57 River partly on the PolandGermany border

DOWN

1 Washington’s features

George

2 Partied hearty

3 Deterrents to ghostwriting 4 Treasure

5 Hammer

6 Not in favor

7 Some charges

8 ER technique

9 He played Michael in “That

‘70s Show”

10 Mary, Queen of Scots’ house 11 Some memorials

12 Wipe out

13 __ Zhengfei, CEO/founder of

smartphone giant Huawei 15 Church reading

19 Cement mixer

22 Liturgy

23 Grate (on)

26 Lyra’s brightest star

28 Home to most of Hawaii’s

population

29 Mr. Miyagi’s charge, with

“The”

30 “It’s ok, you can trust me” 31 Black-and-white Chinese

native

33 More than displeases 35 Pulitzer Prize-winning critic 36 Title

39 Earth-shattering

41 Person of interest? 42 “Father of Eng. History” 43 Exalted one

44 Smarts

45 Superheroine Adora, more

commonly

47 Rush drummer Neil 49 Alaskan island in the Eastern

Hemisphere

51 Lil Wayne’s “__ Block Is Hot” 52 Household nickname

53 Ab __: from day one