LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
“SPACE SAVERS” By PAM AMICK KLAWITTER ACROSS
1 Did gondola duty 6 “Today” rival, briefly 9 Middling
13 Short staff?
18 Dollar alternative
19 Short trip
20 Alpha’s antithesis
22 Beat in the kitchen 23 “Wait ... let me start over” 26 Najimy who voiced Peggy
Hill in “King of the Hill” 27 Bad look
28 Heckle, but not Jeckle 29 The “P” in PIN: Abbr. 31 Unilever swab
32 Old manuscript copier 34 Scalpel sites, for short 35 Polynesian wrap
37 Rage
38 To the point
40 Spa sounds
41 Early pictures
43 Some online reads 45 Diamond surfaces 48 Georgia gridders, to fans 49 “Ginger __”: 1952 Newbery Medal-winning book
50 “Spring forward” letters 51 School reunion attendee 52 Car radio button 54 Oxygen-eating bacteria 56 Asian festival
57 Gets dirty
58 Busy center
61 Uncle Sam’s land, proudly 62 Bunny tail
63 Coral component
64 Big shot: Abbr. 65 Cellar, but not collar, opening
66 Belief common to much religion
68 “Explain, please?” 70 Western PA airport code 71 Disappearing retail giant 73 Hosp. readouts 74 Lodge opening?
75 Patel of “Slumdog Millionaire”
76 Gets one’s feet wet 77 Milne hopper 78 Caught
80 First novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle 82 Sign of a hit
83 Wks. and wks. 84 Platters in sleeves 85 Beautify
86 Puts down
88 Honors
90 Svelte
92 911 pro
93 Culture: Pref.
94 Friend of Goat in “Pearls Before Swine”
95 Some skippers
97 Flock hangout 99 List-shortening term 103 Sticks on a boat
105 Boat owner’s rental 106 Flat owner, maybe 108 Sound
109 Fitness mantra opening 111 Method for slow, steady progress
114 Like a fleabag motel 115 Asian wraps
116 Dusk, to Donne
117 __ dish
118 Half of scissors? 119 Hacking targets: Abbr. 120 Sellout letters 121 Hackneyed
DOWN
1 Beach toys
2 Early Mesoamerican sculptors
3 It may be golden
4 Some retired academics 5 Point 6 Karmann __: classic VW 7 President before an Adams 8 Eponymous newborn score creator 9 Sauces for sushi 10 Yoga syllables 11 Overlook 12 Lustful looker 13 Comics cry from a birdcage 14 Member of three L.A. Lakers championship teams 15 Feeling ecstatic 16 Stadium merch 17 Uses a Zoom alternative 21 “Hair” dos 24 First name of Dickens’ Madame Defarge 25 Ed.’s stack 30 Dudley’s toon foe 33 Make every effort 35 Brother of Ham 36 Fancy poultry dish 39 Retired fliers: Abbr. 40 Superior to all others 42 Sheepish girl? 43 Gentrification target 44 Negative forecast 45 Campaign funders 46 Alaskan native 47 “SNL” staples 49 Took a breather 53 Heat up 55 O’er and o’er again 57 Features of urns 59 Loosens, as a tot’s pajamas 60 Soft hits just over the infield 62 Big name in tennis 66 Carpenter’s groove 67 Sierra __ 69 LGBT History Mo. 72 Drawers? 78 “__ a loss”
79 Remote area known for its middle? 81 Hermione’s guy 82 Stream blockers 85 Assumed names 87 Paging devices 89 Family dinner fowl 90 Half of some couples 91 Hershey’s caramel candies
93 A time to dye 96 Granada girls
97 It’s a sign
98 __ Park, Colorado 100 Christine of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 101 Like radon, say 102 Home on high
104 Kick starter?
106 L, in box scores 107 “What a mess!”
110 TV’s Burrell and baseball’s Cobb
112 Ocean flipper
113 Back (out)