L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 British cartoon whose

logo features a curly tail

9 Company offering

Viewliner Bedrooms

15 Cape Canaveral's 321, for one 16 Period of devotion 17 Nearest the back

18 Private __

19 Tool akin to a staple gun

20 Shelter named for a

senator 21 Bean sprout? 22 Printer color 24 Art student's subj.

25 Orthodox leader?

26 Hedgehog relative

28 Clog buster 29 1993 Jack Lemmon comedy 32 Rentals used on rugs 35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie

Brown Christmas”

37 Studio bed

40 Stock reducers

41 “My __”: Usher/Alicia Keys duet 42 Tofu nutrient

43 Darlings

44 Bobby of R&B's Famous

Flames

45 They swell with pride

47 Tick by

49 Do some warehouse work 50 Nick name in Paris?

52 Venetian marketplace

53 One MCU character

54 Frostbite preventer

55 Stood firm

DOWN

1 Occasion to say 3-Down

2 Literary devices

3 “See ya”

4 Arctic hunter's wear

5 Culmination

6 Barely passable

7 Docs with DOBs, often

8 Appreciate

9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series

10 Name on some magnums 11 Remote possibility?

12 Cone holder

13 Arctic hunter's wear 14 Summer Olympics debut

of 2021

20 Reasons for grievances 22 Sources of saffron

23 Chews out

26 Tenerife's country

27 Mass performance

28 Fires off

30 Summer salad morsel

31 Locks in a barn?

33 Fortified red wine

34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film Heritage Project

36 Was in peak form,

vocally?

37 Sculpture, often

38 Muse on the U.S. Naval

Observatory's seal

39 A little buggy, perhaps 43 Before going under, say 44 Curses

46 Hound of whodunits

47 Judgment of Paris

instigator

48 “The Periodic Table”

author Primo

50 Brita alternative

51 Navigator's dir.