LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opportunity to work from home?

6 News agency that covered Sputnik 10 __-town 13 Welcome

addition

16 Kicked things

off

17 Relic

18 Cinnabar, e.g. 19 Italian pronoun 20 Endorheic basin between Europe and Asia

22 “I’m Yours”

singer

24 Onetime Dodge 25 Short getaways? 28 Source of

stability

30 Run into a

hitch?

31 South Asians

living abroad 32 On a roll 34 Karate levels 35 Langley, Va.,

campus 36 Kellerman who writes Rina Lazarus mystery novels 37 Pomeranian pickme-up?

38 Fair

39 Delight in 40 Sequence depicting the passage of time, e.g.

42 Cram

43 Former 44 Orange stuff 45 Expert in creature comforts? 48 __ Voyage: concert residency featuring avatars of a Swedish pop group

52 Quarter of tetra53 Möbius strip, for

one

55 With 57-Across,

unleash 56 Secretive state 57 See 55-Across 58 Hill workers 59 County south of

Suffolk

DOWN

1 Do-It Yourself Tornado Kit company

2 “It follows ... ” 3 White House resident between Eleanor and Mamie 4 Tour guides? 5 “Ur so right” 6 Utah’s state gem 7 French cordial

flavoring

8 Flight segment 9 Ability to read

the room, say 10 Narrow escape 11 “I raise my glass” 12 Inkling

14 Places that might

have pool queues 15 Cultured set 21 Director DaCosta 23 Barley kin

25 Rig __: Sanskrit text with more than 1,000 hymns 26 Security hub 27 Sheepishness? 28 “Moneyball”

figure Billy 29 Wan

31 [That’s right!] 33 U. of Maryland

player

35 Ocho x cinco 36 Trees with pinwheel-like leaves

38 Feeds

39 Step on the

scale? 41 German “Fat

chance!” 42 Rupture 44 Orange stuff 45 Chasm 46 Brolin who plays Mia on “Yellowstone” 47 __ du jour 49 Runs off the

stage? 50 Presage 51 Culmination 54 __ shed