LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ceremonial champagne opener

6 Rich brown shade

11 Brazen personal ad?

14 Gains star power

15 Attacks, as a snow fort

16 First name in jumps

17 Hub served by BART

18 Initial request for an answer?

19 “You’re killing me, __!”

21 Something clasped for support

23 Legal conclusion?

24 Knee-slappers

25 Workshop device

27 Mystery-shrouded novelist Elena

29 Fancy affair

30 Restless desire

31 Symbol held aloft in an Emmy statuette

32 Indigenous Arizona people

35 Minibar tool

39 Number of World Series wins for each of Chicago’s teams

40 Draws (away)

41 Continuity problem

42 See 45-Down

43 Having sex, perhaps

45 City in the Sonoran Desert

46 Chest bone

48 “Phooey!”

49 Entrance hall

50 “Calm down, sport”

53 Triumphant declaration

54 Animals in Serta ads

55 A couple

DOWN

1 Chutzpah

2 Invoice no.

3 Colossus

4 Give a lift

5 Defies authority

6 Food additive

7 Picks

8 Snack with a rock climber on its wrapper

9 “Just play along”

10 Number that’s always positive

11 Second place

12 Letters in a tab

13 Place for a plant

14 Sculptor Eva who pioneered postminimalism in the 1960s

15 Fave option

19 Starting from

20 Hustles out

22 King Kong or Kanzi

24 “__ Outspoken: My Life in the News”: 2012 memoir

26 Long ride

28 Main ingredient of zongzi

29 Use a joystick, perhaps

31 Quality assurance

32 Bread machine

33 Title derived from the ancient

Egyptian for “great house”

34 Skilled performer

35 “Word”

36 Illustrator Dustin who won an Eisner Award for “Descender”

37 One gaining star power, perhaps

38 Go at it

40 Water under the bridge

44 Diagnosis that may be accommodated with an IEP

45 With 42-Across, surface for shavasana

47 Gig fraction

49 Makes sense

50 Two out of nine?

51 Polo, e.g.

52 Korean for “kick”