L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Use for support

7 PC key below ~ 10 Distort, as data 14 Calm and Restore

skin care brand

15 MLB stat 16 Valley west of Sacramento

17 Garlic bread option

19 Site with a Craft Supplies section

20 “Spider-Man” trilogy

director Sam 21 “Come on down!” announcer Johnny

22 Column of super-heated

ash and sulfur dioxide during an eruption 25 Superficial layer

26 Statistician Silver

27 Not here anymore 28 Word that can follow goal or detail

32 __-country music

33 One of a pair on a library shelf, as well

as one of a pair in each

set of circled letters 36 Joey pal of Piglet 37 Saddle attachments

39 “Can't you take a __!?”

40 Flow slowly 41 Broad neckties 44 Nightshade relish 48 Geological period 49 Cries miserably

50 Casual get-together 51 Reading on a

decibel meter

56 Elm or ash

57 “Noah kept bees

in the ark hive,” e.g. 58 Act as a go-between 59 Utters

60 18-wheeler

61 Begins, as a project

DOWN

1 Lab animal in a maze

2 Night before

3 Superman foe Luthor

4 Jack Black film with the tagline “Meet your ancestors”

5 Available for purchase 6 Recognize

7 Rail rider

8 Core group?

9 Drill insert

10 Herman whose chart is

topped with a giant “E” 11 Panko-breaded

chicken dish

12 __ salts: bathwater

additive

13 Hockey Hall of

Famer Gretzky 18 Actor Sharif

21 Chose

22 Starbucks size

23 Memo phrase

24 Abel's brother

25 Battery unit

27 Need for some hybrids 28 Approves

29 Like stale expressions 30 Ages

31 Ellipsis element

33 Liquid diet component 34 Anise-flavored aperitif 35 Cartel whose “O” does

not stand for “oil”

38 Kitchen invaders

39 “On the spot” spot

41 Part of a basic Latin

conjugation

42 Showroom pitches

43 Dog with a strong

herding instinct

44 Battery units?

45 Verdi composition

46 Amble

47 Yet to be paid

51 Steve Inskeep's

network

52 French yes

53 Sue Grafton's

“__ for Vengeance”

54 Superlative suffix

55 Sign between Cancer

and Virgo