L.A. 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

45 Italy's Villa __

47 Philosopher known for “reductio ad absurdum” arguments

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