LA Times Daily Crossword September 21, 2019 Answers

1. Prepared for a shot 8. It dropped "Western" from its name in 1997 13. By design 16. Basic 17. Come to one's senses 18. Not level 19. Department store section 20. Pacific resort, popularly 22. Some years ago 23. Like 24. Westernmost African capital 25. Hardly Mr. Cool 26. Commonly crumbled fare 29. Word on Italian street signs 30. Competition involving pictures 33. Hometown folks 34. Portmanteau coin 35. Longtime Warner Bros. output 39. __ player 40. Calm 41. Legendary Asian 43. "War on Peace" author __ Farrow 44. Network for cinema lovers 47. Homecoming figure 48. Headline 49. Pinky __ 51. Completely lost 53. Waiting line 55. Imply 56. Some of Nixon's Plumbers, formerly 57. Simpson of fashion 58. "Aha!"

1. Puccini 3-Down 2. Magic star of the '90s 3. See 1-Down 4. Member of an Iraqi minority 5. "Wonder Woman" (2017) villain 6. Microbrew option 7. Asti wine grape 8. Pampering place 9. Brown on the Food Network 10. Ring centerpiece 11. Cause of many '70s lines 12. Come before 14. Really absorb 15. With all judges present, as at a Circuit Court 21. Lower-calorie cookie since 2015 24. Hardly Hollywood's most wanted 26. Filter target 27. World record? 28. High-and-mighty sort 30. Exchanged for an equivalent 31. Pucker inducer 32. Revolutionary-era loyalist 33. Super Bowl LI performer 36. Hot 37. View from Anchorage 38. Warn, watchdog-style 42. Utopian 44. Many Beliebers 45. Cuban hero JosŽ 46. Peak 49. Dreamcast maker 50. Sharpen 52. Had 54. "What a terrible idea!"