LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Stress-relieving
gifts
12 Title in an order 15 Feature of the Bush and Johnson White Houses
16 Court call
17 Fox on TV 18 Prelude to a
kiss?
19 Podcast feed
letters
20 Zelle and Venmo 21 Editor’s tool 23 Any of 12
popes
24 Run
25 Some highlands
musicians
28 Salt Lake Bees and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 29 “Who’s better
than me?!” 30 Drops in the air 31 Red choice 32 Tips for a writer 33 2020 Isabel Wilkerson bestseller subtitled “The Origins of Our Discontents” 34 Stud locale 35 Night sch.
class
36 Gals, in dated
slang
37 Winds 38 Member of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame girl group 40 Polarizing figure? 41 Agreements 42 “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are __!”: 1978 album 43 Opening night
invitee 44 Untimely?
45 Evil computer who says, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”
48 Bulls and bucks 49 Tailor’s device 52 “Dig in!”
53 Actor who played Tony Rodriguez on “NYPD Blue” 54 Some corporate IP 55 Display that may have rotating shelves
DOWN
1 Nicola Yoon’s “The Sun Is Also a __” 2 Cribbage pieces 3 x, y and z, in
math
4 All-clad product 5 “Steps in Time”
memoirist 6 Intellectual
property? 7 Keurig pods 8 Concerns for some orthopedic surgeons, initially
9 HS proficiency
test
10 Sap
11 Doja Cat hit with the lyric “Send your location, come through” 12 Ensures that change is in the air? 13 Scrooge,
ultimately 14 In top form 22 One of the “Black-ish” parents 23 NOLA cagers 24 Brewery
equipment 25 Pouch with a woodsy scent 26 Mudslide
element 27 Attention getters 28 Target section 30 Shop keepers? 33 Focus of many a
true crime podcast 34 Letterhead
feature, often 36 Just
37 The Lascaux
bulls, e.g. 39 Rubbish 40 Shower element 42 Actor JeanClaude Van __ 44 Fragrant neckwear 45 Dance with a kahiko style 46 Trojan War god 47 __-majesté 50 Pops
51 Pollen holder