L.A. CROSSWORD
“SEABEES”
ACROSS 1 Scrabble accessories 6 Long-grained rice 13 Cajun crustacean 20 Target reader of a series of guides, facetiously 21 Odysseus, e.g. 22 Struck a chord
23 Kids’ eager query 24 Subject of an 1857 Elizabeth Gaskell biography
26 Seal predator 27 Really enjoy, with “in”
28 ‘80s police show partner 29 Better, to a rapper 31 Proprietors’ places
35 Generous limit? 36 “I’m __”: “Dragnet”line 40 Organization that really counts
43 Meet with privately
45 Tearjerker need 46 Enriched
48 Nautical time units 49 Actor Morales 50 Tourism prefix 52 Mojito flavoring 53 Like some portrait photos
55 Unyielding
56 Having four sharps 57 Tribute group 59 Phoenix-toAlbuquerque dir. 60 Gill openings
62 Like the Valkyries 64 “No Limit Top __”: 1999 rap album 65 Stress, they say 66 Shows obvious anger
68 Teddies, e.g. 70 Seehorn of
“Better Call Saul” 72 Diamond stats
73 R&B singer __ Marie 74 __ Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster
77 Poetic time 78 Microbrewery choice
80 Play date
82 RSA ruling party
83 “Yeah, so?” 85 Logician’s “E”
86 Either of baseball’s Griffeys
87 Food stamp?
88 How the euphoric walk
89 “The Godfather” catchphrase
92 Lost intentionally 94 Rockefeller, e.g. 96 Bletchley Park analysts
98 Trueheart of comics
99 Bass ending 100 Business bigwig 101 Worshiping figure 102 One of a deck’s pair 104 “Star Trek” villain 106 Scottish resort town known for its whisky 109 Ghee, e.g.
116 Low area
117 Settled accounts, so to speak
118 Big wardrobe 119 Almost off
120 Salad choice 121 Low-quality material, idiomatically 122 Castaway’s place DOWN 1 Bad guy in the song “Copacabana” 2 Month before
Nisan
3 Team that hasn’t won a Super Bowl in its 50-year existence
4 Brando’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”role 5 Chateau __ Michelle winery 6 Antacid option 7 Olympians, e.g.: Abbr.
8 One-named Colombian singer 9 Scuff, e.g. 10 Often-injured knee part, briefly 11 Confucian path
12 IOC part: Abbr.
13 It’s seen on carousels
14 Marbled cut 15 “Give it __”
16 One of many Seuss village residents 17 Put on
18 Product, say: Abbr. 19 Capital of Denmark?
25 Nice cup?
27 Consult with the doctor
30 Him, to Henri 32 Figure in red 33 Indigenous
34 Defiant challenge 36 Fashion model Wek
37 Amateur sport since 1893 38 Connected, in a way
39 Annoy
40 Mating game 41 Flip chart holder 42 Roswell sighting 44 Sequence sung like “Twinkle twinkle”
47 Less cool 51 Perp processing area
54 Sylvie’s seraph
56 “It __”: formal self-identification 57 Reached an apex 58 Cold War capital 61 Singing syllable 63 “Frozen”snowman 65 Catch a bug 67 Evening on Etna 68 Small fishing boat concern
69 Taunt
70 Recover from a crash
71 Bum
73 Place to keep leaves
75 Over-__: sports wager
76 Boatloads
78 Michael of “Arrested Development” 79 Prepare for impact
81 Summer hire, perhaps
84 Claim to call 86 Erstwhile
CIA rival
87 Algebra staples 90 Year abroad
91 Casual Friday casualty?
93 Bond rating
95 One whose business is mostly overhead?
97 Lion or tiger 102 Banter
103 Nutritional stds.
105 Mother of Ares 107 Ointment additive
108 Mature eft
109 Pixar Studios’ specialty, for short 110 __ cit.: footnote abbr.
111 Bore, as a cost 112 Yank’s opponent 113 “Dude!” 114 Underground org.?
115 How-__: instruction books 116 “__ lied”