L.A. CROSSWORD
“SOUNDS LIKE A SNOOZE”
ACROSS
1 Door feature 5 Butcher shop section
9 Minor
15 Bridge
19 “American Gigolo” star
20 Pocket often filled 21 Get there
22 First name at Woodstock
23 Liquor store? 25 Feeding time for the herd? 27 Post-Thanksgiving dinner feeling, for many
28 City near Düsseldorf
29 Bring down 30 Dante’s half-dozen 31 L.A. Clippers’ org. 33 Disqualify (oneself), as a judge
35 One of many on most phones 38 Second Amendment concern
43 Kicks out, in a way 46 Caribbean island chain? 49 Hydroelectric project
51 Capital NNW of Albany
52 Home subcontractor 53 Literary tribute 54 Gets promoted 56 Like neat freaks 57 Ravaged by time 59 Updates, as a reference book 62 Actress Scala 63 __ oil
64 Sound file extension
65 2007 Will Smith sci-fi flick
67 Make change for a five? 71 Itemized deductions form 74 Yellow Sea peninsula: Abbr. 75 Phrase often abbreviated
79 Spat suffix
80 Paul’s letters
82 Trash collectors 83 Good sound at the garage 85 Hodgepodges 86 Flower starter 88 Property owner’s income 89 Insurgency troops 92 Back at sea? 93 Funding for cops? 95 Reclusive
97 Rats
99 Trains over roads 100 Use as support 102 Cartoon collectible 103 Some laptops 106 “Master of None” star Ansari
107 Many a Bob Marley fan 110 Toy mentioned in “The Chipmunk Song”
115 “No legumes for me, please”? 117 Slept through the alarm?
119 Phi Delt, e.g. 120 Discomfort 121 Gather
122 Ness’feds
123 News pg. units
124 Co-star of TV’s “Dr. Kildare” 125 Drops off
126 First name in desserts
DOWN
1 Cold War gp. 2 Nice nine? 3 Ricelike pasta 4 Amazon founder 5 Spell out 6 Cosmetic surg. option
7 Bit of physics 8 React, barely 9 California-based shoe company 10 Bungles it
11 Span. titles 12 Jeweler’s fitting tool
13 Smoothed
14 Agent
15 City south of Tampa 16 Much-admired cooktop? 17 Burn balm
18 Silent signal
24 ‘50s political monogram
26 Blow
32 __-relief
34 4-Down, e.g.
35 Serve in the capacity of 36 He pitched in the majors at age 59 37 Gomer and Goober of old TV 39 Computer symbol 40 “Awesome!” 41 Year Columbus’ fourth and last voyage began 42 More impertinent 44 Clemens, familiarly
45 __ fork
47 Waste
48 Trite comment 50 Small plateaus 54 Takes back
55 Sport for heavyweights 58 Gun, as an engine 59 “Norma __” 60 Fabled northern workers 61 Transparent, informally 64 Alternative scenarios
66 Favored
68 Former Belgian prime minister Di Rupo
69 Edison contemporary 70 Rejections
71 Old Toyota
72 Hints
73 Withhold enthusiasm? 76 “Tootsie” Oscar winner
77 Silicon Valley giant
78 Staff members: Abbr. 81 1990s-2000s Senate majority leader
82 Axlike tool
84 Box office 86 Megaphone kin 87 Special forces weapon 90 “Mephisto Waltz” composer
91 Idled
93 Other side 94 C equivalents 96 Ochoa who was the top-ranked female golfer when she retired 98 Dublin-born playwright
101 Scruffs
104 High deg. 105 Blackens, in a way
106 Flight prefix 108 Overwhelming quantities 109 Electrify, in a way
111 Eye layer
112 Logical omission 113 Baum princess 114 Jury member 115 Prominent poultry purveyor
116 Run smoothly
118 It’s in our genes