L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Consultant on a family history project, perhaps

8 Spot for a note to self 14 Braided accent

piece

15 Univision language 17 “Ya feel me?”

18 Get more out of

19 Delivers ˆ la Tig

Notaro

21 Elite

22 Calls a ball a strike,

say

23 Contracts of confidentiality, briefly

25 Bone: Prefix

26 _ _ milk

27 “Do you see anyone

laughing?”

30 Cannery row

31 Put on the line?

32 Grasped

33 Amy and Molly in

“Booksmart,” e.g. 34 Fills a flat again

36 Church recess

37 YA novel by Matt de la Pe–a about a gifted athlete

39 “Scrumptious!”

42 Time toggle

43 Lacking direction? 44 Object formed by two faces in a classic illusion

45 Augurs

47 Jumps on a scale? 49 “This is bad, even

for you”

52 Phoenix team

53 Pass on to one’s

followers, say

54 Device that is never

free of charge?

55 Uranus, e.g.

56 HS class with a

mean teacher? DOWN

1 Marks

2 Horror film pioneer

3 Place with great

buzz?

4 Amy and Molly in

“Booksmart,” e.g.

5 Dullard

6 Cut short

7 Handouts from a chair 8 Each

9 Sugar suffix

10 Adoption org.

11 Word game option

for Swifties

12 Teeth lost by some

hockey players

13 Novelist who fought

in the Crimean War 16 “They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do”

20 _ _ trombone

24 Shuttle stop: Abbr. 27 Stirred (up)

28 Toy also called a

kangaroo ball

29 Sabotage with a

magnet, maybe 30 “I need to

understand”

32 Troubleshooting

locale

34 1976 debut punk

album

35 NBC show Jay Mohr writes about in “Gasping for Airtime”

36 Ancient French

region

37 Fictional king who “lived among men and learned much” 38 Leading

39 Japanese crime

syndicate

40 Early web forum 41 Salutation

abbreviation

44 Pop in

46 Foundry waste 48 Female lobsters 50 Two places higher

than bronce

51 Join