CROSSWORDS

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