LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Closing pieces
7 Trademarked sandwich
12 Long, thin fish also called a grenadier
14 Worth giving up on
16 Fla-Vor-Ice rival
18 Settle early
19 Hot items at a bakery
20 “Mario Party” dinosaur
22 Slip-__
23 “Duérmete __”: Spanish lullaby
24 Cut
25 Destiny’s Child, e.g.
26 Melancholy
27 One making a bundle on a farm
28 “__ Morgen!”
29 Adds
31 Easy to swallow
32 High tied activity?
33 Charlie and Lola
34 Passionate
35 “The Magicians” novelist Grossman
38 “Ars Amatoria” poet
39 Fools
40 Dove home
41 __ drop
42 Speaks in Spanish
43 Temaki or futomaki
44 Becky Sauerbrunn’s
sport
46 Gossamer
48 Far-reaching
49 Fish in stargazy pie
50 Place to share stories, for short
51 Had
DOWN
1 Sings a lullaby, say
2 Baltic state with a maroon and white flag
3 Go
4 Legal brief writer?
5 Links data
6 Bit of a draft?
7 Letters for a research scientist
8 Bush who is part of “The Squad” in Congress
9 Ingredient that makes she-crab soup orange
10 Brought in
11 Skullcaps
13 Program that rewards super users
15 Maker of the Corrale straightener
17 Popular item
21 Blog with “The Food Lab” columns written by J. Kenji López-Alt
24 Historic Vegas hotel
25 Private pupil
27 Series starring Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist
28 Daring
29 Like some 31-Down attendees
30 St. __: Caribbean island
31 Event where folks may be super dressed up?
32 Filling dish?
33 Chinese take-out order?
35 Finally crack
36 Colorless gas
37 “The __ Virgin”: Strazza statue in Newfoundland
39 Youngest girl in the Shazam Family
40 Poutine topper
42 Qualifying race
43 “Buona __!”
45 Paramount+ network
47 Feature of some uniforms