Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday September 21st 2019, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Prepared for a shot TOOK AIM
8 It dropped “Western” from its name in 1997 SAMOA
13 By design ON PURPOSE
16 Basic PLAIN
17 Come to one’s senses SEE REASON
18 Not level ATILT
19 Department store section CARDS
20 Pacific resort, popularly CABO
22 Some years ago ONCE
23 Like A LA
24 Westernmost African capital DAKAR
25 Hardly Mr. Cool NERD
26 Commonly crumbled fare SALTINES
29 Word on Italian street signs VIA
30 Competition involving pictures CAPTION CONTEST
33 Hometown folks LOCALS
34 Portmanteau coin TOONIE
35 Longtime Warner Bros. output ANIMATED SHORTS
39 __ player DVD
40 Calm SERENITY
41 Legendary Asian YETI
43 “War on Peace” author __ Farrow RONAN
44 Network for cinema lovers TMC
47 Homecoming figure GRAD
48 Headline STAR
49 Pinky __ SWEAR
51 Completely lost AT SEA
53 Waiting line I’LL BE HERE
55 Imply GET AT
56 Some of Nixon’s Plumbers, formerly CIA AGENTS
57 Simpson of fashion ADELE
58 “Aha!” THAT’S IT
DOWN
1 Puccini 3-Down TOSCA
2 Magic star of the ’90s O’NEAL
3 See 1-Down OPERA
4 Member of an Iraqi minority KURD
5 “Wonder Woman” (2017) villain ARES
6 Microbrew option IPA
7 Asti wine grape MOSCATO
8 Pampering place SPA
9 Brown on the Food Network ALTON
10 Ring centerpiece MAIN EVENT
11 Cause of many ’70s lines OIL CRISIS
12 Come before ANTEDATE
14 Really absorb SOAK IN
15 With all judges present, as at a Circuit Court EN BANC
21 Lower-calorie cookie since 2015 OREO THIN
24 Hardly Hollywood’s most wanted D-LISTERS
26 Filter target SPAM
27 World record? ATLAS
28 High-and-mighty sort SNOOT
30 Exchanged for an equivalent CONVERTED
31 Pucker inducer ACID TASTE
32 Revolutionary-era loyalist TORY
33 Super Bowl LI performer LADY GAGA
36 Hot EROTIC
37 View from Anchorage DENALI
38 Warn, watchdog-style SNARL AT
42 Utopian IDEAL
44 Many Beliebers TEENS
45 Cuban hero José MARTI
46 Peak CREST
49 Dreamcast maker SEGA
50 Sharpen WHET
52 Had ATE
54 “What a terrible idea!” BAH