L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opportunity to work

from home?

6 News agency that

covered Sputnik

10 __-town

13 Welcome addition

16 Kicked things off

17 Relic

18 Cinnabar, e.g.

19 Italian pronoun

20 Endorheic basin between

Europe and Asia

22 “I'm Yours” singer

24 Onetime Dodge

25 Short getaways?

28 Source of stability

30 Run into a hitch?

31 South Asians living

abroad

32 On a roll

34 Karate levels

35 Langley, Va., campus

36 Kellerman who writes Rina Lazarus mystery novels

37 Pomeranian pick-me-up?

38 Fair

39 Delight in

40 Sequence depicting the

passage of time, e.g.

42 Cram 43 Former

44 Orange stuff

45 Expert in creature

comforts?

48 __ Voyage: concert residency featuring avatars of a Swedish pop group

52 Quarter of tetra

53 Möbius strip, for one

55 With 57-Across, unleash

56 Secretive state

57 See 55-Across

58 Hill workers

59 County south of Suffolk

DOWN

1 Do-It Yourself Tornado

Kit company

2 “It follows ... “

3 White House resident between Eleanor and Mamie

4 Tour guides?

5 “Ur so right”

6 Utah's state gem

7 French cordial

flavoring

8 Flight segment

9 Ability to read

the room, say

10 Narrow escape 11 “I raise my glass”

12 Inkling

14 Places that might

have pool queues

15 Cultured set

21 Director DaCosta

23 Barley kin

25 Rig __: Sanskrit text with

more than 1,000 hymns

26 Security hub

27 Sheepishness?

28 “Moneyball”

figure Billy

29 Wan

31 [That's right!]

33 U. of Maryland player

35 Ocho x cinco

36 Trees with pinwheel-like

leaves

38 Feeds

39 Step on the scale?

41 German “Fat chance!”

42 Rupture

44 Orange stuff

45 Chasm

46 Brolin who plays Mia on

“Yellowstone”

47 __ du jour

49 Runs off the stage?

50 Presage

51 Culmination

54 __ shed