LA TimES CROSSWORD:
“UNCERTAIN ENDINGS” By MARYELLEN UTHLAUT ACROSS
1 Human embodiment 7 Prefix with -mance
10 Hat often with a pompon 13 45-Across landing site 19 Chef’s asset
20 Musician’s asset 21 Command for DDE 22 Caviar choice
23 Dressed like the winning coach after the traditional ice bath?
26 Short revitalizer 27 Balloon operator 28 Boorish
30 Take forcefully 31 Artist’s asset
32 Pantry nook for chewy candies? 35 Remarkable deed 39 Really stood out 41 Forsaken
42 Quenya and Sindarin are forms of it 45 13-Across lander 46 Hurry-scurry
48 Foolish
52 Fudd, when being elusive? 55 Café haunter, say
57 In reserve
58 One giving you a hand 60 Watchword
61 Popular video-sharing app, familiarly 63 Diamond smash
65 Salty drops
66 “That __ fun!”
69 Shoe that’s really not better-than-none? 73 Cover-crop grass 74 Wide-mouthed pitchers 77 Heath growth also called furze
78 Treats with scorn
81 Part of LPGA 83 Rowland Macy’s inspiration for the red star logo
86 Eliciting feeling 90 Bridge framework 92 Regret losing one’s straw hat?
94 Dried-up
95 Word with cut or crust 97 Triumphant cry 98 Matters of degrees
99 On the main 100 Important figure in pro sports
102 Otherwise
103 Got a Mini airborne? 109 Eng. majors’ degrees
112 Emmy-winning legal drama 113 Military uniform material 114 Wide view
119 Fashion photographer Richard
121 Life-size cutout to promote “Rocky”? 124 Establishment with tastings
125 Had a bite
126 Personal
127 Live 128 Impertinent in tone 129 High-__ monitor
130 First word of Burns’ “To a Mouse”
131 Removes permanently
DOWN
1 Samoan capital 2 Spinner in the wind 3 Banned apple spray 4 Tuesday special, in many eateries
5 Make amends
6 __ race 7 Correspondence sign-off 8 Untrained or undressed 9 Source of metal 10 Brightly colored fish 11 Starters
12 Juicy tidbits 13 Epitome of simplicity 14 Logician’s asset 15 Change 16 Altercation
17 Unblinking 18 Gradually become narrower
24 Union __
25 160 square rods
29 One just hanging in the forest
32 Removed the center from 33 It’s not uncommon to twist it
34 Skincare aid
35 Slug follower? 36 Cockney greeting
37 “It’s Your Space” sloganeer 38 Hedren of “The Birds” 40 Something to make on a sunny day? 43 Nine-inch measure 44 Investigative journalist Seymour
46 Sun: Pref.
47 Area of conflict
48 Enjoy a meal
49 Rose petal perfume 50 Like some friends
51 Play an April Fool’s joke on, say
53 Attach a new label to 54 Polo clubs
56 Baseball club 59 Whistle blowers
62 Tons
64 Two-time Oscar winner Zellweger 66 Shoemaker’s strips
67 Up on the latest info 68 Meal involving charoseth, a symbolic fruit paste
70 Set up for the fall 71 Moving about
72 Cuban dance 75 Become visible on the horizon
76 Chess __
79 Timely benefit 80 Soliloquy site
82 Partly melted snow 84 “Middle Waters” tribe 85 Different
87 “__ just take a minute”
88 Two-finger signs 89 Scots Gaelic 91 Fencing gear 93 Flying Solo? 96 Leader of the track 99 Where time cards are punched 100 Copied
101 Way up the slope 103 Defects
104 Linda of “Alice” 105 2010 Barack appointee 106 Shorebird
107 Speak loftily
108 Fairy tale beasts 110 Travel guide co-founder Michelin
111 Not high
114 Sheet in a window 115 Activist Parks
116 Graph line 117 Ancient Persian 118 “Iliad” war god 120 Bronx Bombers, on scoreboards 122 Knot on a gift
123 “I __ you one!”