LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Destroy

7 Editor of “The Hugo Winners” anthology series 13 Bee sting treatment, perhaps

14 Ricotta-stuffed

pastry

15 Big game places 16 Decor style associated with hobo bags

17 Soft drink size

18 Cousin of org

19 Tropical fruit tree 20 Home of Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” briefly

21 “Hot House” Grammy-winning pianist

23 Driver of a converted bus, maybe

24 Eastern honorific 25 Mercury’s had

wings

27 Floundering

sounds

28 Code of concern

to users

31 Gothic fiction

outgrowth

33 Beverage rebranded to include “Zero Sugar” in its name in 2020 35 President whose nickname originated in childhood

38 Open-bodied truck Barbecue flavoring

Beer flavoring Whitewater principal Catnap

En este momento “Who am __ judge?”

Pie not served for dessert

49 Java serving

51 Winter airs

52 Obsolescent club usually replaced by a fairway wood 53 Member of a

noted octet

54 Serviceman?

55 Break

DOWN

1 Kingdoms

2 Valid independent

of experience

3 Former Asian communist coalition

4 Sleep woe

5 Paraphernalia

6 Northern

frontiers?

7 “Finally I can

relax!”

8 Neck, in

Newcastle 39 41 43 44 45 47 48

9 Provoke

10 Northwestern

Arizona county

11 “Last Week

Tonight” host John 12 Parish priests

14 “Bring it on,

dude!”

16 Locale with special regard for customs?

18 Implicit meaning 21 Library array

22 Done

25 Character-building

aid?

26 Bookmarked, in

effect

29 “Dracula” (1931)

director Browning 30 Carry the day

32 Multicountry union using the same currency

34 Daily newspaper

entertainment

35 Friday revelation? 36 Islands bigwig

37 Romeo or Juliet,

marriage-wise

40 Rhinos and hippos 42 Nice crowd

44 1933 physics

Nobelist Paul

46 Curly hairdo

48 Lose color

50 Hamm of “Mad

Men”

51 EMT proficiency