L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Baseball warm-up 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 lowaltitude 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