LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Confines, theatrically

10 Tech site with a “track prices”

browser plug-in

14 Rank and file

15 Give up

16 “I’m sunk!”

17 Snoring cause

18 Misery

19 Both parents, in some families 20 Heist series title word

21 “Let me have it”

23 Plot

25 “A plateau is the highest form

of flattery,” e.g.

26 Father

28 Chess player Krush who is the only American woman Grandmaster

29 Enviable trait

31 “Wipe your paws” spot

32 Turn to

34 Stands to take a picture? 36 Back on board

37 Meryl’s “Mary Poppins Returns” role

39 State capital?

40 Old Italian 39-Across 42 Trojan leader?

43 Scrapes (by)

44 Doll featured in many unboxing videos on YouTube 48 “We’re dying to know!” 49 Grandly appointed

50 Zoom appt.

53 “Perfect!”

54 Eucalyptus lover, familiarly 56 Stadium strata 57 Tragic dancer of French

literature

58 One could be a lot

59 Film starring Himesh Patel as the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles

DOWN

1 Soften

2 “No regrets” initialism

3 Nap on a carpet, e.g.

4 Prefix with -phenomenalism 5 Explorer trained at the Gagarin

Center in Star City

6 Metallic mixture

7 Replay tech

8 Tough calls

9 Go unused

10 Piccata need

11 Singer who said, “Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream”

12 Foundation of a barter system 13 Oolong and pu-erh

15 Home of the Baylor Bears 20 Title holder

21 Ranks in judo

22 Out of shape

23 Social image?

24 Grooming aid that might

gather dust

27 Site with artisan shops 28 Onetime macOS scheduling

app

29 Stock phrase

30 Home for the holidays? 33 Flower sacred in Buddhism

and Hinduism

35 Dish whose name means “to

slice” in Hawaiian

38 Take as a given

41 Draw

45 Root (out)

46 Wanders

47 Dot on a map

48 “Cheerio!”

50 Canasta play

51 “See what I did there?” 52 Overcast

54 Solution

55 Setting for many a joke