CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Ceremonial champagne opener

6 Rich brown shade 11 Brazen personal ad? 14 Gains star power 15 Attacks, as a snow fort

16 First name in jumps 17 Hub served by BART 18 Initial request for an answer?

19 “You’re killing me, __!” 21 Something clasped for support

23 Legal conclusion? 24 Knee-slappers 25 Workshop device 27 Mystery-shrouded novelist Elena

29 Fancy affair 30 Restless desire 31 Symbol held aloft in an Emmy statuette 32 Indigenous Arizona people

35 Minibar tool 39 Number of World Series wins for each of Chicago’s teams

40 Draws (away) 41 Continuity problem 42 See 45-Down 43 Having sex, perhaps 45 City in the Sonoran Desert

46 Chest bone 48 “Phooey!”

49 Entrance hall

50 “Calm down, sport” 53 Triumphant declaration

54 Animals in Serta ads 55 A couple

Down

1 Chutzpah

2 Invoice no.

3 Colossus

4 Give a lift

5 Defies authority

6 Food additive

7 Picks

8 Snack with a rock climber on its wrapper 9 “Just play along” 10 Number that’s always positive

11 Second place

12 Letters in a tab

13 Place for a plant 14 Sculptor Eva who pioneered postminimalism in the 1960s

15 Fave option

19 Starting from 20 Hustles out

22 King Kong or Kanzi* 24 “__ Outspoken: My Life in the News”: 2012 memoir

26 Long ride

28 Main ingredient of zongzi

29 Use a joystick, perhaps

31 Quality assurance 32 Bread machine

33 Title derived from the ancient Egyptian for “great house”

34 Skilled performer 35 “Word”

36 Illustrator Dustin who won an Eisner Award for “Descender”

37 One gaining star power, perhaps

38 Go at it

40 Water under the bridge

44 Diagnosis that may be accommodated with an IEP

45 With 42-Across, surface for shavasana

47 Gig fraction

49 Makes sense

50 Two out of nine? 51 Polo, e.g.

52 Korean for “kick”