LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Common foundation

5 Singer depicted in the biopic “Walk the Line”

9 1980s cloning target

14 Coil in a garden

15 “The __ for home lives in all of us”: Angelou

16 Half a comedy duo

17 *Begin to chase, with “off”

19 “Your table’s ready” buzzer

20 Illuminates

21 Seductive quality

23 One ensuring accuracy on a grand scale?

24 *Try to delay, with “for”

26 Vare Trophy org.

27 Praises

29 Up to, briefly

30 Start of an adage about humanity

32 Solar __

35 Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer?

37 Emergency signals

39 WWII Polish resistance hero Sendler

40 Illuminated

41 Country roads

43 Coarse file

47 *Gaining prominence, with “and”

50 Revere alternative

51 Rumbled, as thunder

52 Less tender

54 McCartney of Wings

55 *Do some creative accounting, with “the”

57 Broke off

58 Exhort

59 Layered cookie

60 Torment

61 Walked (on)

62 Laura of “Big Little Lies”

DOWN

1 Type of village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories

2 Pack, as a moving van

3 __ price

4 Tower of London figure

5 Cozy eatery

6 Show parts

7 Pop duo __ & Him

8 Announce grandly

9 Intimate

10 Corker

11 “The Treachery of Images” painter

12 Early delivery

13 Wheels

18 Cause of inflation

22 Scottish girls

24 Good vibrations?

25 Dartboard wood

27 Leaves be

28 “All bets __ off”

31 Common Scrabble tile value

33 Nikkei index currency

34 Impressive and then some

35 Tower for a pet who likes to climb and hide

36 Not post

37 Target of an annual vaccine

38 Facial piercing

42 Scene-ending phrase

44 Washed up, maybe

45 One on a quest

46 Marrying sort?

48 Of yore

49 Word said with a curtsy

50 Buster

52 Like drive-thru orders

53 Authorized

54 Place to ruminate

56 “Catch-22” pilot who crashes repeatedly