LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Confines,

theatrically 10 Tech site with a “track prices” browser plug-in 14 Rank and file 15 Give up

16 “I’m sunk!” 17 Snoring cause 18 Misery

19 Both parents, in

some families 20 Heist series title

word

21 “Let me have it” 23 Plot

25 “A plateau is the highest form of flattery,” e.g. 26 Father

28 Chess player

Krush who is the only American woman Grandmaster 29 Enviable trait 31 “Wipe your

paws” spot 32 Turn to

34 Stands to take a

picture?

36 Back on board 37 Meryl’s “Mary Poppins Returns” role

39 State capital? 40 Old Italian

39-Across 42 Trojan leader? 43 Scrapes (by) 44 Doll featured in many unboxing videos on YouTube 48 “We’re dying to

know!” 49 Grandly

appointed 50 Zoom appt. 53 “Perfect!” 54 Eucalyptus lover,

familiarly

56 Stadium strata 57 Tragic dancer of

French literature 58 One could be a

lot

59 Film starring

Himesh Patel as the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles

DOWN

1 Soften

2 “No regrets”

initialism

3 Nap on a carpet,

e.g.

4 Prefix with

-phenomenalism 5 Explorer trained at the Gagarin Center in Star City

6 Metallic mixture 7 Replay tech 8 Tough calls

9 Go unused 10 Piccata need 11 Singer who said, “Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee

and cream” 12 Foundation of a

barter system 13 Oolong and puerh

15 Home of the

Baylor Bears 20 Title holder 21 Ranks in judo 22 Out of shape 23 Social image? 24 Grooming aid that might gather dust

27 Site with artisan

shops 28 Onetime macOS

scheduling app 29 Stock phrase 30 Home for the

holidays? 33 Flower sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism 35 Dish whose name means

“to slice” in Hawaiian 38 Take as a given 41 Draw

45 Root (out) 46 Wanders

47 Dot on a map 48 “Cheerio!” 50 Canasta play 51 “See what I did

there?” 52 Overcast 54 Solution 55 Setting for many

a joke