LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Loaf traditionally made with clabbered milk 10 Dismiss

15 New and

improved, say 16 Slim young

swimmer 17 Decreases 18 Mookie who was

the 2018 AL MVP 19 Miner concern 20 “Law & Order”

actor Jeremy 21 Catalan artist

Joan

22 Cry after seeing a

good drawing? 23 Airport safety gp. 26 “Mad __” 27 Precipitation that

can hurt 29 Knockoffs of the

1980s and 1990s 32 Brand that sponsored early soap operas 33 About as bad as

it gets

35 Bleak

36 “One L” author 37 __ and void 38 Journalist who co-founded the NAACP

40 __ cash 41 Beanies

42 Young lady 43 Violinist Kavafian 44 “I get it!”

45 Block

46 City southwest of

Warsaw 48 Hitchcock motel 51 Food __

54 Even more distant 56 Hereditary chain 58 Summer Daze

cologne brand 59 Generously given 60 Bar

61 Without restraint

DOWN

1 H-Town ALer 2 Preakness winner

Man __

3 Capitol cap 4 Tablet program 5 Word in a

Tom Swifty about Bruce Springsteen 6 Chamillionaire song with the lyrics “They see me rollin’ / They hatin’”

7 “The Killing”

actress Mireille 8 Chem class fig. 9 Taped message

from the police? 10 Isr. neighbor 11 Sch. type 12 Some NFL

breaks 13 Succeed 14 Director Welles 22 Jason who was the 2000 AL

MVP

24 Road warning

sign

25 NYC rep since

2019

27 Rough treatment 28 Self-critical

evaluation 29 Singer who was one of the original judges on “American Idol” 30 Post-doc combo? 31 Starting hour,

perhaps

32 Sci-fi FX 34 Calculated 36 Stock sector 39 Org. founded by

Billie Jean King 40 Artificial

43 “... a grin without

a cat” observer 47 Philosopher known for “reductio ad absurdum” arguments

45 Italy’s Villa __

5/11/24 49 Years in old

Rome 50 Undertaking 51 Focus of much

analysis

52 Santa __ Valley: California setting of “Sideways” 53 Current subject 55 Single situp, say 57 Prescription to fight stress, briefly