LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leather

accessory 6 Sandbox game

items?

11 Rangers home,

familiarly 14 Cocoon fillers 15 Actress

MacDowell 16 Took a course? 17 Ancient Greek

market

18 Fed. security 19 MSNBC’s

“Inside With __ Psaki”

20 James Webb, for

one

23 Really feel the

heat 24 Introduces an

MGM film? 25 Hosted

28 Arrests

30 __

Polytechnique 31 “Severance”

actor

33 Source of local produce, for short

34 __ regia: golddissolving substance 35 Puffy deep-fried

bread

36 Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downs 37 Spice blend 38 “Black Skin, White Masks” writer Frantz 39 __ mignon 40 Inclined 42 Spelling

practice? 44 Receiving line? 45 Layered snack 46 Silent nemesis in

“Peanuts”

51 Is for many 52 Smoothie option 53 Daniel who writes the

Gabriel Allon spy novels

55 Luthor in the

Legion of Doom 56 Row of pawns,

e.g.

57 Needed Advil,

say

58 Superlative

suffix 59 One-named rapper in the hiphop collective Doomtree 60 “The Constant Gardener” Oscar winner

DOWN

1 Pro concerned

with returns 2 Brings it in, in a

way

3 Each 4 y=2x² plot, e.g. 5 Coastal

formation 6 Gilbert and

Sullivan staple 7 Rice, for one 8 K-pop star, say 9 Book club? 10 Shows the door 11 Pitches delivered

in sequence? 12 Member of a

blended family 13 Tiny inheritance? 21 __ out

22 Berkeley,

familiarly 25 “Barracuda”

band 26 Purchases a company to obtain talented employees 27 Follow up too

soon, perhaps 28 Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto 29 Repugnant 32 Imitate a dove 35 Many a reduction 36 Good & Plenty

flavor

38 Vulcan or Agni 39 Tool for intricate

cutting

41 Draw

43 Part of some

email addresses 46 Vegetable baked

for chips

47 Parts of a sleeve 48 Lithographer

James Merritt 49 Precollege yrs. 50 The before

times?

54 Wood shaper