Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Sharp group 6 Stage award 10 “Kisses,
dahling” 14 NASA nods 18 Beatles’ “White Album” song whose title follows “If you want me to” 19 Cost of living? 20 “Yikes!” 21 Beatnik’s
“Gotcha” 22 Tycoon, e.g. 24 Biblical verb 25 Bete __
26 On one’s game 27 Euterpe 29 Unyielding 30 Map feature 32 Crux
33 Resort of a sort 36 One brought to
a potluck
39 Map abbr. 40 Drubbing 41 Boater or bowler 44 Antacid name since 1872 48 Remove 50 Con
51 K.T. of country music
52 Offer to pay 54 Venezia casino winner
55 Fill with merchandise 57 Transcript info 58 One digging hard rock? 60 Just like that 61 Greet with a beep 63 Takes action 67 Metro barrier 70 Title of honor 71 Russian refusals 72 Encounter stiff competition 77 Toy, perhaps 81 Novelist Seton 82 Invite to one’s loft, say 83 Jones many keep up with? 86 Blush relative 87 Dummy Mortimer 89 Do wrong 90 One way to split 92 Move, at Coldwell Banker 93 Heave-ho 95 Willpower 99 Medical research org. 100 Comics resident of the Okefenokee Swamp 102 NATO founding member 103 Jimmy on sausage labels 104 Part of NATO: Abbr. 105 Brass, e.g. 107 Prayer leaders 109 76-Down brand 111 Rich, and then some
114 Land 120 Major pain 121 Becloud
122 Apt time to recognize this puzzle’s honoree 123 Pond denizens 124 Indian tourist city
125 Bind, in a way 126 Swerves 127 Gas across the border 128 Highlander 129 Clutter 130 “Fiddler” meddler
DOWN
1 “La Bohéme” role 2 McGregor of “Trainspotting” 3 Familia girl 4 Trudges 5 Creamy sauce 6 __ Biscuit, product debut of 1912 7 ’50s-’60s sitcom nickname 8 “The Wreck of the Mary Deare” author Hammond __ 9 “MIB” characters 10 Construction units
11 Word of possession 12 Mandatory bet 13 Words after “jolly” in an iconic ad 14 Affaire de coeur 15 “Really?!” 16 Diva Te Kanawa 17 Something to build on 21 Cons 23 Theme 27 Whiz
28 Big beef 31 Kid’s plea 33 Ping-Pong shot 34 __ bean 35 “Good Eats” host Brown 37 Sun blocker 38 Briefcase fastener 40 Ruin, weatherwise 42 “Double, double toil and trouble” time
43 This and this 45 Energize 46 Rock genre 47 Heron cousin 49 Baseball or football 53 Reject 56 Simpson trial figure Kaelin 58 Chicago exchange, briefly, with “the” 59 Stagger
62 Fey in American Express ads 64 “Pronto!” 65 Do-ityourselfer’s buy 66 Hollywood Walk of Fame symbol
68 Not as much 69 __ Pie
72 Wall builder 73 Boredom 74 Compact supplies 75 Certain bond, briefly
76 Best Buy buy 78 Caused by 79 Rubberneck 80 Maestro Solti 84 Outstanding 85 Modeled, say 88 Arranges strategically 90 “In my opinion ... ” 91 Author Chomsky
94 It’s on the house
96 X, at times 97 Progressive movement 98 Antipasto fish 101 Exerciser’s accessory 106 Slowly, in music 107 Toughen 108 Ripped off 110 Website charge 111 Locks in a barn? 112 What seems like forever 113 One of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” 115 Duty 116 Pac-12 team 117 Harbinger 118 Imperfection 119 Where AnheuserBusch is BUD 122 “Ben-Hur” studio