L. A. TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLES

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1 “Ring Around the Rosie” word 6 Belts 11 Drop 15 Firefly emanation 19 Regatta racer 20 Bacon in a parlor

game 21 Rare state bird 22 Apple’s apple,

e.g. 23 Municipal tennis

court? 26 Nobel Peace

Center home 27 Jackson ejector 28 Goes bad 29 Father __ Sarducci: “SNL” character 30 “Good __!” 31 Artist Mondrian 33 Rudely awaken 36 Throat trouble? 37 __ Tin Tin 38 Crowded dorm

symptom? 41 Bayer that might cause a headache? 44 Après-ski option 45 “Jurassic Park”

threat 46 Cause of a

municipal alert 48 Online ref. since

2000 49 Radiographer’s

tests 53 Guadalajara gal

pal 56 WWI French

battle site 58 “La donna è

mobile,” for one 59 In a proper

manner 61 Francis of “What’s

My Line?” 63 Conk 64 Massage 65 Feature of ths

clue 66 Embellishment on Arabic calligraphy? 68 Contradict 70 Israeli statesman

Abba 72 Buster? 73 Like __: probably 75 Last log entry? 78 Otherwise 80 Show one’s

humanity 81 “Aw, fudge!” 82 Potential benefit 83 Editor’s “Let it be” 84 Spy-fi villain in a

Nehru jacket 85 Quadratic

formula course 87 “I’m not afraid of __; I just don’t want to be there when it happens”: Woody Allen 89 Mucinex relative 91 Neighbor of Leb. 92 Biryani base 94 Senator Bail Organa’s adopted daughter 96 Written guffaw 97 Taken over 99 Animal always

without a home? 105 Adversary 106 Eldest Bennet

daughter in “Pride and Prejudice” 107 __ Soleil: 17th/18th-century royal 108 On Vine St., say 110 Spaniard’s

“L’chaim!” 112 Chased from the

closet 114 Ices 116 Business card

abbr. 117 Not odd at all 118 Request at the

poultry farm? 122 Geeky sort 123 Wedding cake

layer 124 Detroit’s Joe __

Arena 125 Holmes of “The

Kennedys” 126 Temperance

advocates 127 Head of France? 128 DeMille

specialties 129 Wood that sinks

in water

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1 Music rights gp. 2 Old Roman name for Ireland 3 Large ’90s-’00s SUV 4 Boston’s Liberty Tree was one 5 Disparage 6 Bunny slope

conveyance 7 S cuba gear 8 Brown, for one 9 Vets-to-be 10 Cozy 11 Having a heck of a

winning streak 12 Pastures 13 Disguised, briefly 14 Driver’s aid 15 Meathead’s wife

in ’70s TV 16 Cause of playtime sadness? 17 Act like a wolf 18 Pound sound 24 Rouen’s region 25 Elizabethan

neckwear 30 One of the Allman

Brothers 32 Scarpia’s killer, in

a Puccini opera 34 Errant 35 Him and her 39 WWII cost

stabilizing agcy. 40 The “A” often

seen in 49-Across 41 Wood-damaging

insect 42 “Stormy

Weather” singer 43 Place with a

serpent problem 47 Handcuffs 49 Atkins no-no 50 Kind of test 51 Brother-andsister biathlon training regimen? 52 Powerful

campaign force 54 Humdrum

routine 55 Bravo preceder 57 Geishas’ sashes 60 Sections of the

brain 62 “Snowy” wader 65 It may be taken in the afternoon 66 Battery terminal 67 “Sorry, lad” 69 Kansas-born

playwright 71 H2SO4, e.g. 74 Stepped 76 Gruesome 77 Kingdom 79 Make a fool of 81 Place of honor 83 Really impress

the critics 84 __ Lama 86 41-Across, e.g. 88 Color like aqua 90 Information company co-founder Charles 93 Shoulder

decoration 95 Good for the

heart and lungs 98 “Gadzooks!” 100 Complete 101 Stink 102 Easy to use, in

adspeak 103 Completely 104 Arrived from

above 106 Best Actress between Cher and Jessica 109 Strike zone? 110 Transmit 111 Maintain 113 Opposite of

83-Across 115 Benefit 118 Hairy Addams

cousin 119 Outdo 120 Avignon

agreement 121 ’60s quartet

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