L.A. CROSSWORD
“ILLEGAL TENDER”
ACROSS
1 “Please stay” 7 Fallopian tube neighbor
12 __ Beta Kappa 15 Just peachy, in old slang
18 Tool for winter fishing
19 “I swear!”
20 Royal problem? 21 Superhero sound effect
22 Mad money? 24 Lingerie brand 25 Chapter in history 26 Close-knit team 27 Navel type
28 Grant money? 30 Takes too much, briefly
31 The OED’s 21,728, e.g.
33 Australian rockers __ at Work
34 Shoot for
35 Voice below soprano
36 French toppers 39 NFL pass rushers, as a unit
40 Hot money? 45 They’re used for emphasis 47 Olympian Bolt
48 Bit of info
49 Nasty type
50 Social media pic that may go viral 51 Intrinsically 52 Ransom money? 56 Amtrak track 57 Talk Like a Pirate Day word 58 Undoing
60 “What else could it be?!”
61 Go head to head 62 From sunup to sundown 64 Afterwords
67 Greek goddess of wisdom 69 Hawaiian staple 70 Gamer’s complaint 72 Arrived at, as a conclusion 73 BuzzFeed reaction button 75 Wears on
76 Old money? 79 Dishes out incautiously 81 Sister of Rachel 82 Mercedes-Benz sedan line
83 “What are you gonna do about it?!”
84 Put on
85 Should really 87 Paper money? 89 Type of drum or dance
90 Cassock wearer 92 Long, long time 93 Heavenly body? 94 Bear in Baja 95 Seder staple 97 Pres. when Sputnik was launched
100 Bad money? 103 Hindu teacher 105 Rumble in the Jungle setting 107 Celtic Sea land, to the IOC
108 Hard end?
109 Smart money? 111 Wonderland drink
112 “I would consider __ honor” 113 Backwoods type 114 Self-referential “Don’t you think?”
115 Fizzy prefix
116 Flyers’ org. 117 Witherspoon of “Wild”
118 African pest
DOWN
1 ’70s music genre 2 Pie slices, often 3 Water and air, e.g.
4 Peter the Great, e.g.
5 Strategy 6 Be indebted to 7 As expected 8 Battery count
9 Jai __
10 Ancient mariner’s story, e.g. 11 Positive answer 12 Besties
13 Runner’s __ 14 Unfavorably 15 Feature of club nights for comic wannabes 16 Main cast of “Parasite,” e.g.
17 Discarded old
PCs, say 20 Finer-tipped 23 Well-intentioned humanitarian 28 Like a bairn
29 Fried foods, vis-àvis baked ones 32 Georgia airport code
33 Dash in a spice rack? 35 Word rarely used without “far” 36 Living symbol of happiness 37 State tree of Massachusetts 38 No-nonsense 40 Undeserved punishments 41 Rely heavily on 42 Hermanos, primas, etcétera 43 Ballet-inspired workout method 44 Oftmispunctuated word
46 Time Person of the Year et al. 49 Compressed file format
51 Accounts __
52 Ski slope apparel 53 Stuff oneself silly 54 Connection
55 Pet control aids 59 Tavern mugful 63 Tina Fey’s boss on “30 Rock”
65 Devices made largely obsolete by smartphones 66 NFL ref’s review aid
68 Multinational hotel chain 71 Understand
74 Like many La Scala productions 77 Bookkeeper’s book
78 Ovarian hormone 80 Rent
83 ‘60s protest gp. 84 Big bores
85 Special guest, perhaps
86 Like many Cubist paintings 87 Fair-hiring inits. 88 “__ me!”
89 Bolivian bungalow
91 Sorta cousin 95 Former fillies 96 More than enough
97 “__ We Almost Have It All”
98 Mildly annoyed cries
99 Unnerving
101 Swear words? 102 River through Orsk
103 Pump, e.g. 104 Aftermath 106 “Zip-__-DooDah”
109 Home of many 2010s refugees: Abbr.
110 Magician’s source of surprises