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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

05/30/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019

ACROSS
1 Hairy swinger
4 Blue 
semiprecious 
stone
11 Vainglory
14 “Blue Bloods” 
actor Selleck
15 Joint Chiefs 
member
16 Bubbly title
17 Dreamed of a 
career in politics
20 Mythical hunter
21 Considerable 
stretches
22 Thames 
academy
23 Old Opry network
24 Nice picnic spot?
25 Burn soothers
26 Took part in a 
revival
29 Hit one out, in 
baseball parlance
30 Atomic number of 
nitrogen
31 TV commentator 
Navarro
32 Fort Collins sch.
34 Cone producer
35 “Amscray!”
38 Singer Lopez
40 Name on a “Little 
Women” book 
jacket
42 “We can’t win!” 
and “It’s useless!”
45 “Something 
to Talk About” 
singer
46 Low-quality
47 Mining supply
48 Subject of the 
documentary 
“Blackfish”
49 __-g
50 Terra __
52 New father’s task, 
maybe ... and 
what the three 
other longest 
puzzle answers 
have in common?
55 Luv
56 Candy bowl 
holder’s rule on 
Halloween
57 __ generis
58 Short albums, for 
short
59 “Afterwards ... ”
60 Word before cow, 
dog or lion

DOWN
1 Somewhat
2 Physics particle
3 Spanish stuffed 
pastry
4 Taj Mahal city
5 Zombiepocalypse 
start?
6 Like a zombie
7 Snappy 
comebacks
8 Japanese show 
set in a kitchen
9 New Mexico 
resort
10 Pixie
11 Publishing house 
hiree
12 Start admitting 
both men and 
women
13 Fodder for 
soothsayers
18 Navel variety
19 Pen denizen
24 Soft drink 
choices
25 Last Olds 
models
26 Dustin Johnson’s 
org.
27 Confidential
28 More wicked
33 Still wrapped

35 Garganta of 
“Femforce” 
comics, e.g.
36 “No kidding?”
37 Road gunk
38 Saturn’s largest 
moon
39 “It’s not coming 
to me”
41 “High five!”
42 Drive-in server
43 Puerto __: San 
Juan natives

44 “Camptown 
Races” refrain 
syllables
45 Valium maker
49 “A People’s 
History of the 
United States” 
writer Howard
50 “High Hopes” 
lyricist
51 China setting
53 Small Indian state
54 Puck’s place

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Clairo, Clairo, Clairo. 
You know what that sounds 
like? 
Elio, Elio, Elio (from the 
final scene of “Call Me By Your 
Name”). 
Yes, this might be dramatic, 
but allow me to force this com-
parison for just one moment, 
because listening to Clairo’s new 
single “Bags” (in anticipation of 
her debut album Immunity, due 
Aug. 2) launched me immediately 
into the heart-wrenching head-
space of the following quote from 
Andre Aciman’s “Call Me By Your 
Name” (CMBYN): 
“If he knew. If he only knew 
that I was giving him every 
chance to put two and two 
together and come up with a big-
ger number than infinity.”
Clairo’s new single “Bags” 
embodies this push and pull of 
summertime feelings, caught in 
a space between opposite mag-
netic forces where holding back 
affection sucks, but speaking out 
about it sucks equally as much, if 
not more. 
Clairo’s dainty voice, the sum-
mertime release, and her staple 
ability to be hazy (but not in the 
way that makes you think of over-
cast skies), launched me right 
into the green and yellow hues 
of “CMBYN.” With her fragile 
vocals, the scratchiness from 
switching between guitar strings 
and an overall sense of lingering, 
she cultivates the subsistence of 
entanglement. She creates this 
first-person point of view that 
feels so similar to Elio with lyrics: 
“I can’t read you, but if you want, 
the pleasure’s all mine. Can you 
see me using everything to hold 
back?” 
Also strikingly similar to Elio 
is the tangibility of her personal 
development in being open about 
her sexuality, writing about one 
of the first girls she knew she was 
attracted to. In an interview with 
VICE, Clairo discusses coming 
out a year ago and the authen-
ticity that comes with “Bags” in 
it being the first single she has 

released that allowed her to make 
music that feels personal. 
The single starts with a brief, 
ill-defined, ping-pong static that 
is quickly replaced with a consis-
tent drum pattern, pushing the 
listener through the whole song 
in a pleasantly subdued man-
ner. She not only captures the 
art of holding back, but wanting 
to savor, asking questions of how 
to enjoy something completely 
while still displaying restraint. 
The repetition of the lines “Walk-
ing out the door with your bags,” 
and “know you’d make fun of me” 
perfectly echoes the thoughts 
that run through your mind on a 
soap box, when you’re so damn 
attracted to someone but just 
can’t say anything. 
To bring this stretched-out 
analogy to full fruition, Clairo fol-
lows suit behind the likes of Tyler, 
the Creator and Kevin Abstract in 
referencing “CMBYN” with the 
lyrics: “All these little games, you 
can call me by the name I gave 
you yesterday.”
Clario has hit the final form 
of Soundcloud bedroom pop. 
She’s shed her first- and second-
stage attacks of the homemade 
sound with amped-up production 
(enlisting the help of co-producer 
Rostam Batmanglij), yet the sig-
nature daintiness of her voice, 
the soft aesthetic of her creative 
direction and, perhaps, her baby 
face, keep the listener inside the 
ethos of bedroom pop. This evo-
lution is phenomenal to witness, 
because she holds onto what cre-
ated the magnetic pull toward her 
in the first place, but then launch-
es into a more mature sound, 
opening up about her sexuality 
and bottled-up emotions. 
The most important compari-
son I can make between Clairo 
and Elio comes from the line after 
which the song is titled: “Walk-
ing out the door with your bags.” 
For both Clairo and Elio, a lover 
leaves and never comes back. 
But, it’s in those pangs of emo-
tion you feel when wrapped up in 
entanglement that are absolutely 
critical to your development and 
understanding of your sexual-
ity — and that’s why the story of 
unfulfilled love is being told in 
the first place. 

Clairo and Elio: A
side-by-side take

SAMANTHA CANTIE 
Daily Arts Writer

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