LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Back on the job?

11 CD rate?

15 Got home safely, perhaps 16 Islands in the Gaeltacht 17 “Ish”

18 Tulane’s home, informally 19 Natives of Nunavut and

Nunavik

20 Wee drink

21 “Miners Fight” sch.

22 2019 World Series champs 23 “Minari” director __ Isaac

Chung

24 Wall St. launch

25 Physicist Nikola 27 Birth-related

30 “Deep breath so I can zip you

up!”

34 Retro

36 Gorilla-war franchise 38 Reception area

39 If everything breaks just

right

40 Narrow

41 “Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” writer

43 Nature-nurturing org. 44 Confidentiality doc 45 Functions

49 “Downton Abbey” countess

51 Sushi pairing

53 Touch off

54 Org.

55 “I ... think so?”

57 Opening 58 Words said while tapping

one’s watch

59 Plenty

60 Post-parade debris in Pasadena on New Year’s Day

DOWN

1 Welcome guests

2 Memoir that was adapted as the film “What’s Love Got to Do With It”

3 Fried treat

4 Hodge who plays MC Ren in

“Straight Outta Compton” 5 Straight, or straightened 6 Court figs.

7 Hogans, yurts, etc.

8 Toy that was originally called

Chimp to Chimp

9 Spanish pronoun

10 Side

11 Didn’t settle right away 12 Original

13 Like some connectors

14 Pic

23 Slowly, on scores

24 Detailed windows

25 __ del Fuego

26 __-rock

28 Some drafts

29 In case

30 Contretemps

31 Arm bone

32 Bengal fan, perhaps

33 Short trousers

35 Capital of Bangladesh 37 “Color me intrigued!” 42 “Swan Lake” swan

45 Bother

46 Spot for sweaters

47 Barnett of CBS News 48 Biases

49 Play group

50 Northern European capital 51 Prepare for a match 52 Tuscan waterway

53 The New Yorker staff writer

Rachel

56 Bread in a jar?