L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Connected

10 “All good here!”

15 Order of magnitude?

16 Not touch

17 Paleolithic innovation

18 Turning points?

19 British pound note

featuring Jane Austen

20 Horn in

22 Jettison

23 Take off

24 __ shape

26 Hardly rosy

27 “Broaden your horizons!”

30 Bank security

31 Self-evident pick

32 Top pick

33 Big name in Early

American art

34 Emmy winner

Helgenberger

35 Drunkenness

37 Cut off

38 Backs

39 Herb used in some Indigenous smudging rituals

40 Life styles?

41 Personal matter?

42 Parking space

44 Fortified, with “up” 46 Cool amount?

49 Sierra __

51 Smell-o-vision rival

53 Source of intelligence

54 Summary of top

headlines

55 Prankster's declaration

56 Mail order?

DOWN

1 Start of a library

conversation, maybe

2 Gentileschi's “Selfportrait as a __ Player”

3 Just after

4 Mil. title

5 Troublemaker

6 Prize

7 LED component

8 Hilfiger rival

9 Pen name of journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman

10 Sort

11 Element of some

meditation exercises

12 Admired with quiet

reverence, with “of”

13 Goes back out

14 Crossword editor Harper in Hallmark's “Crossword Mysteries” series 21 __ nous

23 Hashtag that went viral during a pop star's legal battle

25 Ewe said it

26 Elevate

27 Kids on a farm

28 Plant that sparked the Victorian craze “pteridomania”

29 Indoor rower,

for short

30 “Smallville” role for

Durance

31 “You okay there?”

32 Cone source

33 Pub trayful

36 Classic car

37 Coastal formations?

39 Appear to be

41 Cultivated

42 Refinery waste

43 Cuban bar tender

45 Little dipper?

46 Nutmeg spice

47 Supermodel with a cosmetics line for women of color

48 W. Coast force

50 “When will u b here?”

52 Hoops stat