LA TIMES CROSSWORD:

“POETRY SLAM” By JOHN LAMPKIN

ACROSS

1 Wacky

7 Subterranean queen 10 Reaction to a trip

14 Throw out

19 Eight-time Best Actor

Oscar nominee

20 Cloud content

22 Queen topper 23 Shakespeare’s

ghostwriters?

25 Let in

26 Neither surfeit nor dearth,

informally

27 Lie about one’s age? 28 Heavenly harp 30 Decreases

31 Go after

33 Aspiring singer’s aid 35 Flexible joint

37 What a ritardando

gradually gets

40 Very likely will, after “is” 42 Be beholden (to) 45 “Another day, another

$%&! Grecian urn”? 49 Short notes

51 Pete’s wife on “Mad Men” 52 Fits

53 Places for drinks on

tracks

56 Pacino and Roker 57 Florida horse country city 59 Streaker’s covering

60 __ account

61 Faced

62 Cloudy

63 Assist in the gym 66 Landscaper’s truckload 68 “Religious Poetry Writing

for Dummies” reminder? 75 All of Sartre’s “No Exit”? 76 Cut with light

77 “... bug in __” 78 Giant Manning 79 Omit 82 Env. fattener 84 Smarts measured by the ounce? 86 Muscle that sounds like a kiss 87 “Me too” 89 Onewaytorun 91 Play division 93 Excited, with “up” 94 Love song written while playing hooky? 98 Cooked sushi fish 99 “My goose is cooked!” 102 Baroque 103 Like some rovers 105 Buzz 107 Really feared 111 Panthers’ school 113 Dessert options 115 Enter, as data 118 How many Oscars 19Across won 119 Be of help 121 Chaucer’s workflow? 124 Many a quartet’s bottom line 125 Relaxed 126 Produce visibly, as a sweat 127 Young ones 128 Great times 129 Bond, for one 130 Burns subjects

DOWN

1 Legendary mountain climber 2 Even things 3 Toroid treat 4 Addlepated 5 Pub patron’s pint 6 Bowser’s bagful 7 Onewaytorun 8 Destination of the 1925 diphtheria serum run 9 Bashful 10 Baseball’s “Little Giant” 11 Audibly 12 7-Across, to an aardvark 13 Get sore 14 Sorority vowel 15 YouTube upload 16 Poet known for her footwork? 17 Wah-wah source? 18 Pix from needles 21 Subsidiary wager 24 Enthusiastic kids’ plea 29 Music genre prefix 32 Bit of subterfuge 34 Bucolic outbursts 36 Tank 38 Lamb literature 39 Castro of Cuba 41 Smooch and stuff 43 Frayed 44 Canadian gas 45 Item sold in sheets 46 Van Gogh milieu 47 “How many roads __ man walk down ... ”: Dylan 48 Swamp gas 50 Intestinal bacterium 54 Career military members 55 Matchless 57 Elocuted 58 Vegas attraction 59 Oinker’s digs 62 Yukon or Denali 64 “NewsHour” airer 65 “Little House” family name 67 Schlep 69 Interruption 70 Plumber’s piece 71 Forest __ 72 Driveaway 73 Colleague of Ruth and Sonia 74 Chopped into cubes 79 Asian libation 80 __ pants 81 Tennyson lecture? 83 “Bye!”

85 Prefix with dermal 88 One-eyed Norse deity 89 No. 2

90 The Beatles’ “words of wisdom”

91 Asian appetizer 92 Soaps and vacuums 95 Oboe kin

96 Stop seeing someone 97 Unintentional rat poison victim 100 Trailhead handout 101 Minor matter 104 Handy

106 “__ Hope”: ’70s-’80s soap

108 Nerds

109 Follow

110 Oceanic abysses 111 Concord

112 2017 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Phil __ 114 Suffix with buck

116 Job in a kitchen 117 Whitewater challenge 120 Alhambra article 122 Ed.’s stack

123 U.S. govt. broadcaster