LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
ACROSS
1 Chunk
5 Spill stopper
8 Beetle in Egyptian
hieroglyphs
14 Old Eurasian rulers
19 Many a restaurant website
page
20 Addr. line ending
21 Brother of Scar
22 Juice box go-with 23 Censor of controversial
parts of “Messiah“? 26 Hold forth
27 “Top Chef” host Lakshmi 28 Knish seller
29 __ Morris, “Saved by the
Bell” protagonist
31 Award for good plays 32 Bagel feature
34 Spots
36 Emergency delivery
method
38 Family tree woman 42 Cause of restaurant
complaints?
45 Intraoffice IT system 46 Memo start
47 Get around 48 Conventional rubies? 53 Choir accompaniment 57 20th-century Argentine
leader
58 Room in Clue
59 Original “Star Trek” actor
62 Nice way to say yes? 63 Stubborn animal
64 Family room
65 Group email function
67 A, in Aachen
69 Sign of a cat burglar?
74 Shoppe modifier
75 Brand mentioned in the
Beatles’ “Come Together” 77 Golf club part 78 “I pity the fool” speaker 79 Word that’s a homophone of its first letter
80 Willing subjects 82 Melodious
85 BILLY bookcase sellers 88 Big dipper
90 What people and leopards have in common? 93 Gallery event
96 __ top
97 Kinshasa’s country, briefly 98 Stallone hero putting more film in his camera?
102 Research staples
104 Sister of Laertes
105 Like yellow bananas 107 Look for gifts, say
108 Green and white
109 Almost never
112 Greenish-blue
114 Allow to fluctuate, as a currency
117 Type of navel
119 Enjoy the track meet? 123 Can’t live without
124 Bible book read during Purim
125 Hardly walking distance 126 Neutral shade
127 Doesn’t do much
128 What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly
129 “Go for it!”
130 Loafer, e.g.
DOWN
1 “This can’t be,” in texts 2 Faithful spring?
3 Actress Kendrick 4 Founder of an Eastern religion
5 Euphoria
6 Providers of liquid assets? 7 Out of juice
8 Cheese alternative? 9 Adorable ones
10 “100 Years… 100 Movies” org.
11 Heckle 12 On the briny
13 Chain of pubs with beer
and video games 14 General on a menu
15 Tot toter
16 Peninsula between the
Red Sea and Persian Gulf 17 Sanction
18 Candy store buys 24 Personified things in
Pixar’s “Inside Out” 25 Sticky home?
30 Isn’t serious
33 Money in M nster
35 It may be cracked 37 Prepare for new planting,
as a garden
38 Zero-star fare
39 Not seen often 40 Spellbound
41 On deck
43 Upbeat melody
44 “Master of None” cocreator Aziz __
49 Book after Daniel
50 Dame Dench
51 First place
52 Musical Lynn
contemporary
54 Commits a hoops violation
55 “__ Lang Syne”
56 River to the Mediterranean 60 “The Masked Singer”
panelist Jeong
61 Able, facetiously 66 Radiohead lead singer/
songwriter Thom
67 Subj. including the study
of extinctions
68 Field of Dreams setting 69 Nemesis, e.g.
70 Late philanthropist Broad
71 Like tadpoles
72 Combine
73 A.G. under Clinton
76 “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
actress Hines
78 Biscuit whose name
describes its shape 81 Part for one
83 Men’s grooming brand 84 Exams for future attys. 86 Decent-sized lot 87 Brief periods 89 Summer cabin site 91 Sport
92 Racing the deadline 94 Chamber music work 95 Spirited events? 98 Corkscrew pasta 99 Warmed up the crowd 100 French fashion house 101 Agitated state
102 Like Beethoven, late in life 103 Pie fruit
106 Pie fruit
110 Ones getting a lot of props?
111 “At Last” singer James 113 Split
115 A pop
116 Halal cart offering 118 Supergirl symbol 120 Greek X
121 Tolstoy title word 122 Refuse to settle