LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
“CODE CRACKERS” By MARK MCLACHLAN
ACROSS
1 College loan co-signer,
maybe
4 Establish as law 9 Long-legged birds 15 Five-O nickname 19 Before, poetically 20 Prepare to surf
21 Reunion attendee
22 King Harald’s father 23 One way to enter a pool 25 __ media
26 Film scene shot without
interruption
27 Kenya’s first prime
minister __ Kenyatta 28 Hydroelectric project 29 One end of a church key 31 Amazon assistant 33 Abundant element in
Earth’s core 35 Thingamajigs
36 Physical location? 41 Humor
42 Winans of gospel
43 Most hip
45 Supposed to arrive
46 Spa sounds
49 Plotting chuckle
51 Delta rival renamed in 1997 53 Moving aids
54 “Mobile” communications device used in law enforcement 60 Jack in a suit
62 Initial Hebrew letter 63 Mountain melody 64 Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has one that includes cannon fire 68 Lose it
69 Matching game
71 Total, as a bill
72 2012 Beyoncé hit with the repeated line “Say you’ll never let me go” 76 Slips through the cracks 79 Domingo, for one
80 One of Australia’s six 81 Summing-up words 83 Thin coin
86 Digitally approve 88 Game-winning line 89 Hallelujah trio?
90 Spanish article
91 Sharp tingle, as of fear 95 Ford contemporary 98 Discount
102 Guru whose opinions are trusted
107 Surname on Elm Street 108 Chiwere-speaking native 109 Trial subject
110 2019 “Game of Thrones” event
114 45, in classic pop
117 Well-behaved
118 Like many Horace works 119 Mexican madam
120 Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them
122 __ Reader
123 When Hamlet kills Polonius
124 Divider of pews
125 Word in many obituaries 126 Collectible ’90s caps 127 Put away for later
128 Kingdom
129 Important stretch
DOWN
1 Kanye West label
2 Ring of color
3 Regarded
4 2003 holiday comedy 5 Reason for being barred at a bar
6 Taj Mahal city 7 Immense
8 Blast cause 9 Suspected
10 Heaps
11 Tear channel
12 Czech track legend
Zátopek
13 Cellular process affecting
nucleotide sequences 14 Scene of some
“Gunsmoke” action 15 College address ending 16 Actor born Alphonso D’Abruzzo
17 First of three Leslie Nielsen comedies, with “The”
18 Supervises
24 Venomous
29 U2 frontman
30 Whale group
32 Pitching staff star
34 VCR button
37 Masseuse’s target
38 Not sure (of)
39 12th Jewish month 40 Hi-__ graphics
44 Munro pen name 46 “Great minds think alike,”
e.g.
47 Fire-suppressing gas 48 Position
50 Med. care provider
52 U.K. fliers
53 They may be changed by
judges
55 Place side by side 56 Taking it badly?
57 Run in place 58 Modernist’s prefix
59 TV chef Brown
61 Love of antiques 64 Renowned clown
65 Navel formation 66 Stand-up comic’s seat 67 Lock __: come into conflict 70 Front-of-bk. list
73 __Bo
74 “Just what I wanted!” 75 70s Israeli prime minister 77 “Music for Airports” producer
78 Move quickly
81 Ruler unit
82 Veg out
83 A piece of cake
84 More than familiar with 85 Growing up
87 “Shoo!”
92 Brand with a pitchershaped mascot 93 Bard’s instrument 94 Freudian focus
96 Mo. when Festivus is celebrated
97 Beetle Bailey nemesis 99 Treats again, as a sprain 100 Grow older
101 Actress Thompson and ice dancer Virtue 103 Disney Beetle
104 “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” singer Warwick 105 Drama queen, e.g. 106 View from Jidda
111 Really digging
112 Pinot __
113 Grammy winner India.__ 115 Galileo’s birthplace 116 Strip __
120 Away companion
121 Rock in a setting