L. A. TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLES
“POSSESSION”
Across
1 Twinkler
5 Block from the
White House 9 Sunburn salve 13 Others, in Oaxaca 18 Almond __: candy 19 Like jeggings 20 Fist bumps 21 Talked a blue
streak?
22 Ill-kept
confidence 24 Seasonal drink 26 Tossed a bone to 27 Playground
retort 28 Up-to-the-minute 29 “I never __ purple
cow ... ”: Burgess 30 New Mexico county bordering El Paso
32 Dance partner 34 Mr. or Mrs. 36 Hard-to-imagine
period
37 It’s charged 38 Winds up or
winds down 42 *English surgeon
Henry
45 Talks like Daffy 47 Mo. town
48 Like a paddling
surfer
49 With 113-Across, “Funeral in Berlin” author 50 Waikiki wingding 51 Sounded
nostalgic about 55 Tiger, e.g. 56 Churchill,
notably 58 Curaçao cocktail 60 American Red Cross founder Barton 62 Prankster’s
missile 64 “Popeye” pirate 66 Racing Unsers 68 Zen garden piece 69 Match made in
heaven
71 Kept from
squeaking 73 Lifesaver, initially 74 Potted dwarf 75 *Noted WWII
lifesaver
77 Sticks figure 79 Drive-thru burger chain whose name has two hyphens
81 Make a home 82 Squat 84 Summary
86 It has Air, Mini and
Pro versions 88 Part of a circ. 89 Fervently wishes 91 Stooge with a
bowl haircut 92 Center of Florida? 94 Govt. guidelines 95 Name on the 1984 album “My Kind of Country” 96 Cologne cooler 97 NYC commuter letters
98 Thunder sound 100 Pains
103 Courier and Roman
105 King with a pipe 108 Very destructive 111 Nursery cry
113 See 49-Across 115 1990 #1 rap hit 117 Specialized
slicing tools 119 Chugged, say 120 Links seen at pga.
com
121 Doctoral candidate’s hurdles
122 Furry sci-fi
creature
123 Huffy states 124 Duma vote 125 Lose intensity 126 Prevent
Down
1 Letters connected to theater capacity 2 Collectible baseball card brand 3 Boston-to-D.C. rail service 4 Took off 5 *Second-longest reigning British monarch
6 Blue heron kin
7 P eter Benchley
thriller
8 Giants great Mel 9 *First of all? 10 Slip
11 Facing 12 Bilingual subj. 13 Award declined by George C. Scott 14 Company with a
blue bird logo 15 Used Lyft, say 16 Mining haul 17 Barcelona-born
muralist 19 Leaves for a
Chinese dinner 23 Line crosser 25 SpaceX CEO
Musk 27 Chicago’s __
Center
31 Carlo __: wine
brand
33 Money immedi
ately available 35 Book jacket entry 39 Consequence of the telemarketing boom
40 It’s in our genes 41 Disappeared
from view 42 Looks really
happy 43 Upgrade, as on
Yelp
44 Vet student’s
workplace 46 Send for
47 Type of massage 48 Student
advocacy gp. 50 Folk tales 52 Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it intersects 53 Earth goddess 54 Subj. with
unknowns 57 Approaching the
hour
59 Coarsely insulting, as language
61 Vice squad
incursions 63 Classic for which Pavarotti won a Grammy 65 Frenzied
67 Did some farm
work
70 Legal scholar
Guinier 71 Lacking width
and depth 72 Worst of the
worst
74 Drink, in Dover 76 Hot
78 Foreman stat 80 Have a loan from 82 “Fresh Air” airer 83 Country on St. George’s Channel 85 *Memorable 1968 role for Mia 87 Treat on a stick 90 “Really, Captain Obvious?” 93 *First human woman, in Greek myth 94 Scheduled 96 Perry’s creator 97 CalArts degree 99 Eight, to Mozart 101 Street fare
seekers
102 Luxurious fur 104 Bonnie or Clyde 106 Lerner collabora
tor 107 Company with an ironically crooked logo
108 Shadow targets 109 Beige shade 110 Marsh duck 112 Computer game
title island
114 Gloomy fellow 116 Ballerina’s hairdo 117 Tool for Cupid 118 Hawk’s domain