Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Baseball warmup word 5 Brazilian music genre word meaning “trend” 10 Secured
14 Ebb
15 Nailing, in a way 16 Weather __ 17 Kitchen fixture 18 Mountain slope
debris 19 Welder’s output 20 Home improvement team
22 One of two sts. admitted to the Union 11/2/1889 23 Elder of an ’80s-’90s country duo 24 Metaphorical
casino loss 25 Formed by
solidified magma 26 Is __: imminently
will
27 Turndowns 28 Perceived Cold War weapons disparity 31 Propelled, as
a raft
32 Words preceding an important reminder 37 Power eponym 41 Antagonism 42 Amazon, notably 44 Singer for whom Bernie wrote lyrics
45 Remit, nowadays 47 “Contact” author
Sagan
48 Comes to terms 49 “I’ll do it” 50 Formal “Who’s
there?” response 51 Letter-bottom
abbr.
52 Bit of progress 53 Atlantic food fish 54 Pak of the LPGA 55 Artist’s pseudonym formed from the French pronunciation of his initials 56 1953 Ladd
classic 57 Casual wear
DOWN
1 Like court
witnesses
2 Try it
3 Buttercup family
member 4 Biological mapping subjects 5 Parachutist using low-altitude starting points 6 Blockage 7 Brought into
being
8 Dummy Mortimer 9 Quite a while 10 Rowena’s lover 11 Bouncer’s job 12 Early Wikipedia
competitor 13 Icon locale 21 Giovanni’s god 24 Roman sun god 26 Like a pendulum’s movement 29 __-mo
30 Saw 32 Like Hollywood films before censorship guidelines were introduced 33 LeBron, since
Jul. 2018
34 One in a 1K, say 35 Follower 36 Certain youngster’s nickname 37 Least civilized 38 Property
recipient, in law 39 Like a good-sized
farm
40 Plant support 43 Santa
follower 45 Cabbage site 46 “Ran” director
Kurosawa 48 Wish were here