L.A. Times Crossword
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
By Tom Pepper & Zhouqin Burnikel
ACROSS
1 Bugs
7 Flat-topped hills
12 Faux wood in a
fireplace
18 Pass by
19 Harding biopic
21 Chihuahua coin
22 Place for a rock
24 1984 Jeff Bridges film that begins with a UFO crash
25 Shorthand
system
26 Just
27 Place for a roll
29 Geometry
calculation
31 U.S. intel org.
33 “Trainwreck”
director Judd
34 Place for a rock
39 Carbon
compound
40 Short evening
wear?
43 Driver’s assignment: Abbr.
44 Microsoft Office default typeface until 2007
45 Ore-Ida side,
familiarly
47 Tech company with an exclamation point
49 Envelope abbr.
51 Burden
52 Take a break 55 Hulu alternative
56 Left high and
dry
58 Place for a roll
61 __ as punch
62 Bring home
64 Shopping cart
count
65 Choice words?
66 Fit together, as
some dolls
69 Brobdingnagian
71 Barbecue fuel
73 Kung _ _
chicken
76 Booze
78 Bit attachment
80 Dave Barry
genre
84 Place for a rock
87 Natural ability
90 Mammal with more gray matter than a human
91 Caesar __
92 Nabe in lower
Manhattan
93 Miami Heat
coach Spoelstra
94 Buy time
96 Australia’s national gemstone
98 In the midst of
100 Pub pintful
101 Orecchiette
shape
102 Asgard god
105 Place for a roll
108 Actress Jennifer in Capital One commercials
110 Letters after
nus
111 “Othello” villain 112 Place for a
Rock
116 Matching
118 Put in more
chips, say
122 Stretch with
no landmarks
123 Place for a roll
126 Firsthand
accounts
127 Fast and
furious
128 Sharp kitchen
tool
129 Tons
130 Knobs on a
pipe organ
131 Respected
ones
DOWN
1 Loch in hoax photos
2 Tons
3 Strong wind
4 Word with
column or cord
5 Oregon’s oldest
city
6 Cha, chai, or
matcha
7 Bog down
8 2021 Marvel movie directed by ChloŽ Zhao
9 Most tender
10 “32 Flavors”
singer DiFranco
11 Bring into
alignment
12 Arrives at
13 Chess legend
Karpov
14 Milkshake
insert
15 Meat common
in Greek cuisine 16 Shape of
sesame seeds
17 No longer there
20 Indian city with
a mausoleum
21 House channel
23 “Just think ... “
28 Hairy Halloween
costume
30 Disgraced
energy company
32 Make a scene?
34 Swimmer’s woe
35 __ Pradesh:
Indian state
36 Fashionably
dated
37 “All in the
Family” spinoff
38 Short trips
40 Part of a
magazine spread
41 Class clown
42 Some whiskey
drinks
46 Largest island in French Polynesia
48 Wall flowers,
perhaps
50 Wall or flower
53 Architect’s
detail, briefly
54 Muppet who
rarely says “I”
57 Port city south
of Kyiv
58 __ Lankan rupee
59 Take heat
from?
60 Japan’s largest
beermaker
63 Factor in sibling rivalry, often
67 Costco rival,
familiarly 68 Bulky brass
instrument
70 Bridal bio word
72 Instrument for
a troubadour
73 Counterpart of
poetry
74 Place for a stent
75 Prized statuette
77 Sanders, for one
79 “No Logo”
author Klein
81 Big picture?
82 Black swan of
ballet 83 Type in again
85 Rogue computer
of sci-fi
86 Small amount
88 Hypocritical
sorts
89 Polynesian kingdom with more than 170 islands
92 Tortilla chip
topper
95 Adds, as paper
to a copier
97 Fish in some
omelets
99 Series of bad
takes
103 Appliances
with drums
104 Ancient Cuzco
dwellers
106 Not tricked by
107 Gave for a
short time
108 Italian city
known for salami
109 Oldest of the
Pointer Sisters
112 Lombardy lake 113 Cartel founded
in Baghdad
114 Widely shared
post
115 Sweeties
117 Karaoke gear
119 Castaway’s
home
120 One who’s
forward-looking
121 Makes a
misstep
124Interest rate fig.
125 Safety gear
for ER workers