L.A. Times Crossword

Place Setting

By Doug Burnikel &

C.C. Burnikel

ACROSS

1“Is anybody

here?”

6“Get outta here!”

10Box office

receipts

14People with allaccess passes

18Short and sweet

19Head lights?

21“Really?” 22Taquer’a freebie

23Park place?

25Busy place?

27Patriotic chant

28Hangout for hog

lovers

30Shots on the

green

31Cost of living?

33To be, in

Marseilles

34They could use

a welcome sight

36Hailed wheels

39First place?

42Bother 43“Barefoot Contessa” host Garten

44List that may drop down or pop up

45_ _ West-Allen: “The Flash” character

46Sunflower part

48Semi unit

49Beginning stage

51The Vitamin

Shoppe rival

53Many Mecca

residents

56Calligrapher’s

container

58Aria, e.g.

61Dress seen on

Indian runways

63Marathon, e.g.

65Vice _ _

67Precious rocks

69Duffer’s do-over

71Words of

empathy

73Hard place?

76Chemically

inactive

77Quivers in fear

79Composer

Stravinsky

80Eye shade

82Hindu spring

festival

83Five-star review

85Mil. truant

87Volkswagen

sedan

90In _ _: before

birth

92Faux _ _

94Reason for celeb damage control

96Choice on a

color chart

97Like a play about

a play

99Often-ignored

email

102Not so hot

103“For You”

singer Rita

104“_ _ about 9Rested a while

10Disco family

name

11Totally relaxed

12Steering system

parts

13Key hit in panic

14Hold in high

regard

15Successful

prankster’s cry

16Gave up, in a

way

17States as fact

20Camper’s fuel

24Digressions 26Doubleheader

half

29Corp. shuffling

32Catches some

rays

35Target field

36_ _ Field: Mets

ballpark

37Unknown

author, for short

38Safe place?

40Bitterly regrets

41Support group?

44Secured in a slip

47“Semper Fidelis”

group 1Spelman, e.g.: 50Lady Justice’s

Abbr. garb

2God with wings 52Sleeveless top,

3Peru’s largest city briefly

4Madagascar 54Sesame place?

primates 55Permanent 5Functional mark

6_ _ shed 57Business trip

7Pasta or bread, allowance

e.g., for short 59Stubbs of the

8In a partnership Four Tops

that!”

107Private place?

110Some PwC

employees

111League for Guardians and Angels

113__-Alt-Del 114Go a few

rounds

116Closer’s goal

117Wasn’t honest

120Translator’s

challenges

124Last place?

126Remote place?

128Girl 129One with star

power

130Thompson of

“Westworld”

131Director Coen

132Where el sol

rises

133Colorful

salamander

134Put into

storage

135Entertainer’s

crew

DOWN

60Roar _ _ Roar: “Monsters University” frat

62Negga of

“Passing”

64Med. specialty

66Taj Mahal city

68_ _ food

movement

70Komodo dragon,

e.g.

71“Thereabouts” 72Jay of “The

Green Hornet”

74Answer an invite 75“No _ _!”: “Sure

thing!”

78Steamy 81Baked dessert

84All-Star side

86Tibetan priest

88Surrounding

vibe

89Tazo products

91Careless 93Setting of the Sandra Bullock film “Gravity”

95Talk trash about

9881-Down order

100Oil producer?

101Fragrant shrubs

104Pain in the

neck

105Nebraska

natives

106“They

outplayed us”

108Consecutively 109Like the most

clear sky

110Monte _ _

sandwich

112Actress

Witherspoon 115Promo pro

118Triangular shoulder muscle, for short

119Monterrey

jack?

121Sounds amazed

122Degs. for

curators

123Levelheaded 125Foil metal,

once

127Pussy foot