L. A. TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLES
Across
1 Back biter? 6 They’re rarely good dance partners
10 Worry word
14 Nut under a tree 19 Sherlock’s
adversary Adler 20 Zero-star meal 21 Hard finish? 22 Big fight
23 Words on
the street?
24 Big Island port 25 Spanish pronoun 26 Window
treatment 27 Cargo unit 28 Lennon classic covered by Pentatonix
31 Like some riots 33 Absurd 35 Aborted
operation 36 Something
to learn 37 Willamette
University home 39 “Enigma Variations” composer 41 Scary biter 45 Coral Sea sight 48 More hard-up 50 Square dance
milieu
51 Turn
52 NBC weekend
staple
53 Ancient German 55 Fuming 56 Polishes, as prose 58 Support source 60 Job listing ltrs. 61 Bacon and
eggs, say 62 Puts in order 64 Police protector 66 Woodworking
supply 68 Workable wood 69 Firmly affixed 71 State with
confidence 73 Span. title 76 Hastings hearth 77 Deserve
79 Tells
81 Hostile force 84 Cartesian
conclusion 86 Volvo competitor 88 Freshen 89 Sitarist Shankar 90 Like hiss or boom 92 Snappy dresser 94 Scandinavian
capital 95 Fictional wolf’s
disguise 97 Employ to excess 99 Fisherman
with pots
100 Algonquian
chief
101 Govt. issue 102 Arabian
peninsula capital 104 Infatuate
106 Intestine
sections
108 Plumed birds 112 Dr. Brown’s
classic
115 Ivy in Ithaca 117 Seek office 118 Baby bug
119 Wedding reception eye-catcher 121 Worked up 122 Spender of rials 124 French 101
infinitive 125 “Power Hits” series record label
126 Went off the
deep end 127 Picked a ticket,
perhaps 128 Board
129 Lowly worker 130 Christmas
symbol
131 Lyrical poetic
form
Down
1 Peruvian volcano
El __ 2 Wrinkle-resistant
fiber
3 Cants
4 “Barbara __”:
Beach Boys hit 5 British actor who played Algy Longworth in 1930s Bulldog Drummond movies
6 DOL watchdog 7 Garage job 8 Book sheet 9 Freeloaded 10 Stupefied state 11 Western actor who taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip 12 More pretentious 13 Waterproofs,
perhaps 14 Cynical Bierce who defined “sweater” as “Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly” 15 “Titanic” theme
vocalist
16 Broad
assortment 17 Bausch + Lomb
brand
18 Rorem and Beatty 29 Qantas hub
letters
30 Tertiary Period
stones
32 __ Martin:
Bond’s car
34 Like italics 38 Middle of dinner? 40 Turn right
42 Capa
attacker 43 Scand. land 44 Circle’s lack 45 Gemini rocket
stage
46 Some library
volumes 47 Caribbean
sorcery 49 Sorbonne
student 50 Nocturnal
tree dweller 54 Trueheart of
the comics 57 Problem
with a line
59 Turn over
61 Was perfectly
tailored
63 Glass
component 65 Ancient home
of Irish kings 67 Academic
specialty
70 Sister of Rachel 72 A lot more than a little mistake 73 It may have a swivel top 74 Get together with old classmates, say 75 China __: showy bloom 76 Memorable line from Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek” 78 Religious recluse
80 Unpaid bill 81 Energy bits 82 Ancient Japanese
capital
83 Brush fire op 85 Third James Bond
novel
87 Samba relative 90 Filmdom’s Thompson and Watson
91 1961 Literature
Nobelist Andric 93 Plant studied
by Mendel 96 Hamlet’s
homeland 98 Puts in another
roll of film
101 Up till now 103 First word in
Dante’s “Inferno” 105 Taunts
107 Grain bane 109 Sister of
Calliope
110 Not sharp or flat 111 Rather nasty 112 Storm
harbinger 113 Marsh bird 114 Name on the column “At Wit’s End” 116 Hungarian city known for red wine 120 Seasonal
worker? 123 Swiffer WetJet,
e.g.