LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 All over the place 7 Period

11 Chilled

13 Absorb 14 Features of “Step by Step” and “Sister, Sister” 16 Gets rid of 17 Chips away at 18 Fertility clinic

cells

19 Made shorter 23 “Save it for the

honeymoon!” 26 Vietnamese

garment

27 Small bucks and

does

30 Play a proper noun in Scrabble, say

31 Declaration after

a trial?

36 Honor for David

Oyelowo: Abbr. 37 Astonished cry 38 “But to no __” 41 Does as ordered? 45 Craft goods that might be barrelaged

48 Classified letters 49 Resident of Number One Observatory Circle since 2021 50 Enviable trait

52 “You really don’t

want to go there” 56 No-goodnik 57 Paper clips? 58 Precursor to a

deal

59 Like some pop

up clinics

DOWN

1 Tackles

2 Single

3 “Grey Girl” poet

Sharon 4 Bumbling sort? 5 Sum things up 6 Anti-mimetic position held by Oscar Wilde 7 Largest Ohio city that doesn’t start with “C”

8 Film with a boy named Anakin, familiarly 9 “You’ll __ the

day!”

10 House of

Commons reps 11 Garam masala

ingredient

12 Grounds crew’s

roll

13 Hit home? 14 WordPress.com

offering

15 Need after

spilling the tea? 19 Just wretched 20 To the manor

born

21 Amass goods repetitively, in video games 22 Dumpster __ 24 Talk Like a Pirate

Day sound 25 “Hair Love” voice

actress 28 Organized 29 Traces

31 __ roller

32 Curt “Duh”

33 Try to touch or

get in touch

34 Grounds crew’s

roll

35 Reasons for

WRs to dance 39 Aggressive response to a bluff

40 “Solar Power”

singer-songwriter 42 Ordered

43 Plans a nice

getaway? 44 Turns 46 Cosabella product 47 Moreno in two “West Side Story” films 50 No. on a bank

statement 51 Single

52 __ provençale 53 Artist Dutch whose name became a fashion brand 54 Cell service

letters 55 Former NBAer Jeremy