L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brakes

8 Do a sauce preparation job

15 Wedding employee

17 One always looking up

18 Meander

19 42nd's second

20 Food buyer's consideration

21 Polish removers

24 One of 20 in many books

27 Pizza party purchase

28 Stress-free locale, ideally

31 Global warming concern

33 Private dining area

36 “Death at a __” (2010 comedy)

38 Cooling-off period

39 A, often

41 Hemsley's role on the sitcom “Amen”

42 Hill climber

43 What happy concertgoers want

45 Perfect places

46 Deeply saddens ... or delights

48 Parting sentiment

52 Little, playfully 53 First name in late-night talk

57 Bar association concern

60 Top dog?

61 First name in late-night talk

62 Shower components

DOWN

1 Host

2 For calorie counters

3 Predictor, sometimes

4 Conduct may have it on either end

5 Bright star

6 Data plan number

7 American workers

8 Counted (on)

9 August hrs. in Augusta

10 Breakfast food mentioned in court in “My Cousin Vinny”

11 Green bean

12 “It's Your Space” sloganeer

13 Cocktail garnish

14 Art Deco designer

16 Space observation

22 Pie __ 23 Left carefully, with “out”

24 Tick off

25 Luxury auto

26 Carpentry joint component

28 Bae or boo, to former generations

29 Pound parts

30 Playwright Chekhov 32 Prosciutto di __

34 Direct

35 Some bills

37 Investigate

40 “Amazing Grace” figure

44 Highly regard

46 Fruit served with prosciutto

47 Spin, say

48 Storied bear

49 2018 White House visitor from Qatar

50 Kids' curriculum

51 Garden veggie

54 Regarding

55 Suddenly turn

56 Messes up

58 “100 Years...100 Movies” org.

59 Battleship success