LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ceremonial champagne opener

6 Rich brown shade 11 Brazen personal

ad?

14 Gains star power 15 Attacks, as a

snow fort

16 First name in

jumps

17 Hub served by

BART

18 Initial request for

an answer? ´

me, __!” 21 Something clasped for support

23 Legal conclusion? 24 Knee-slappers 25 Workshop device 27 Mysteryshrouded novelist Elena

29 Fancy affair 30 Restless desire 31 Symbol held aloft in an Emmy statuette 32 Indigenous

Arizona people 35 Minibar tool 39 Number of World Series wins for HDFK RI &KLFDJR·V teams

40 Draws (away) 41 Continuity

problem

42 See 45-Down 43 Having sex,

perhaps

45 City in the

Sonoran Desert 46 Chest bone 48 “Phooey!” 49 Entrance hall 50 “Calm down,

sport” 53 Triumphant

declaration 54 Animals in Serta

ads

55 A couple

DOWN

1 Chutzpah 2 Invoice no. 3 Colossus

4 Give a lift 5 Defies authority 6 Food additive 7 Picks

8 Snack with a rock climber on its wrapper 9 “Just play along” 1XPEHU WKDW·V

always positive 11 Second place 12 Letters in a tab 13 Place for a plant 14 Sculptor Eva who pioneered postminimalism in the 1960s 15 Fave option 19 Starting from 20 Hustles out 22 King Kong or

Kanzi

24 “__ Outspoken: My Life in the News”: 2012 memoir

26 Long ride 28 Main ingredient

of zongzi

29 Use a joystick,

perhaps 31 Quality

assurance 32 Bread machine 33 Title derived from the ancient Egyptian for “great house” 34 Skilled

performer 35 “Word” 36 Illustrator Dustin who won an Eisner Award for “Descender” 37 One gaining star power, perhaps

38 Go at it

40 Water under the

bridge 44 Diagnosis that may be accommodated with an IEP 45 With 42-Across, surface for shavasana 47 Gig fraction 49 Makes sense 50 Two out of

nine?

51 Polo, e.g. 52 Korean for “kick”