LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Early finisher’s luxury

12 Word heard

before a hike 15 Paper Mate introduced one in 1979

16 Hearth debris 17 Mock question of

literacy

18 Poe’s __ Morgue 19 Casual greeting 20 Struggle with

one’s sins? 21 Vicuña cousins 23 __ pit

24 Trap

25 Set out

28 Relay

29 Some memory

triggers

30 Polite gesture

from Alice 33 Malicious gossip 34 Actions to avoid 35 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting

36 Trial results 38 “Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone”: comedy podcast 39 Not on the ball 40 Spacely Space Sprockets employee 41 Some pending cases 43 French bean? 44 Twist in pain 45 Play the sycophant to, with “over”

46 Ms. Pac-Man ghost 49 Hedonist’s goal 50 Boss’s unsettling request

53 A, to Amélie 54 Barcelona star 55 “__ Miz” 56 Thurible go-with

DOWN

1 Modern fixer 2 Hymn singer’s wrath?

3 Loads

4 Part of i.e. 5 Musical family including James and Livingston 6 One behind a

violist, maybe 7 Wintry nuisance 8 BOLO target 9 Clint’s Clyde, in a 1978 movie 10 Dreamers’ opposites 11 Circular, in a way 12 Like Pentatonix numbers 13 Expected 14 What we have here 22 Sailor’s shout 23 Strict disciplinarian 24 Play things 25 __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill

26 Singer Brickell 27 Natural-born quillers?

28 Like Nash poetry 30 Brewery in

Golden, Colorado 31 Short court plea 32 Pop’s ma 34 Focused

37 One of Kenya’s

official languages 38 Honey or sugar 40 The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink

41 Not good at all 42 Cut back 43 Occupied

45 Okay

46 Just okay 47 Space bear 48 Change the narrative? 51 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper Tone __ 52 Pathological liar’s creation