LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Includes, briefly 4 Bell hooks work whose title comes from a line often attributed to Sojourner Truth 15 Prune

16 Pink flower with

a yellow center 17 “Oklahoma!” Tony winner Stroker 18 Mayonnaisebased condiment

19 Jedi on Dagobah 21 Taskbar lineup 22 Walked 23 Negligent

25 Aim

27 “Born a __”:

Trevor Noah memoir

28 __ pool 30 Elements of Byzantine architecture 31 Last-minute

participant 35 Journalist

Tarbell

36 Award with a Journalistic Integrity category 38 Quebec street 39 Equal-pay issue 41 Whirlpool

subsidiary 43 Strike force? 44 Jellyfish’s lack 45 Medicare Advantage program

47 Hawk 48 Self-referential 49 Best possible 52 Forgets to charge

the phone, say 54 “Okay, you got

me” 57 NPR host

Shapiro

58 Mail with a North Pole return address 59 __-de-sac 60 Multipurpose

piece

61 Problem that often grows with fame

DOWN

1 Tandoor material 2 System with shades of meaning 3 Character who debuted in the 1962 comic book “Amazing Fantasy” 4 Germane

5 Game challenge 6 Busters 7 Nickname of

vodka-maker Beveridge

8 Home country of Oscar-winning filmmaker

Asghar Farhadi 9 Flight number 10 Director

Anderson 11 Sojourner Truth

forte

12 Grieve

13 Broad tie

14 Sine qua non 20 Brest friend 24 “That did me in” 26 Minor gridiron

gain

28 Nick who’s coached four Heisman winners at Alabama 29 Sporty car roof

30 Unkind remark 31 Vacaciones

destination 32 Rugged contest 33 Hallway accent 34 House call? 37 “Spamalot” cocreator 40 Vaudeville great 42 Cooked

44 Faith

45 Use the elliptical 46 Make

reparations 47 Check words 48 Major in transgender activism

50 Bucks in a forest 51 Treebeard and

friends 53 Isolated work

group

55 Touch a

touchscreen 56 Part of a chorus

line?