L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “__ Secretary”

6 First Negro League electee to Cooperstown 11 Radical '70s org. 14 Durance who plays Lois on “Smallville”

15 Per __

16 Comparative suffix 17 Grim

18 Removes with a putty knife

20 Out

22 Where hauls may be divided

23 Pouchlike shoulder bag 25 Nearly straight-horned antelope

26 Going up

29 Tender

32 Warning to a meddler 34 Cote sounds

35 Pilot's place

36 442 or 88, e.g. 37 Guideline when something is dropped from one's diet?

40 Eclair filling

41 Stylish filmmakers 42 Shepherd's pie bits

44 Poet's rhyme for “home”

45 Important artery

48 Construction equipment

53 Coldly devious

55 Vaudeville production

56 Preceding, poetically

57 Name in 1976 Olympic news

58 Totally remove 59 Palindromic song from a palindromic band

60 Funding source

61 Prohibition details

DOWN

1 Most populous U.S. city that isn't a county seat 2 Fine things?

3 Tuner, sometimes

4 One of Yellowstone's two million-plus 5 Be opportunistic, metaphorically

6 Dance step

7 “A Cook's Tour” host 8 Cross letters

9 Forklift truck friend of Luigi in “Cars” films

10 Largest penguin

11 Seat of South Dakota's Minnehaha County 12 Bailed

13 Warnings, perhaps 19 Alternative baking staple

21 Regulate

24 Breath spray brand 26 Lincoln wore them 27 Window with a crank, often

28 Pursue

30 Köln closing

31 Lo-__

32 Yvette's evening

33 Foes of Buffy

34 Phased-out propellant

38 Intense, as pain

39 Spread by moving dirt?

43 __ energy

45 Field food, briefly

46 Dynamic start?

47 John/Rice musical

49 Celsius freezing point

50 __-Picone: fashion house

51 Sign of age, maybe

52 Dates

54 N.L. East player