Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“POP CULTURE” By GAIL GRABOWSKI
ACROSS
1 Physics
calculation 5 They may be broken on purpose
9 “You gotta be
kidding me!” 14 Aussie bedrolls 19 Comics pooch 20 Put in other
words, say 21 British county 22 Garlicky mayo 23 Brand created in
Toronto in 1904 25 23-Across buyer 27 Bank protection 28 Country
29 Web search tool 30 Cleared out 33 British peers 34 Some basilica
singers
35 “How about
that!”
36 Kin of -trix 37 “The Dark Mirror” antagonist, e.g. 41 Infamous 1974 bank robbers: Abbr. 42 School social worker’s concern 47 Plastic __ Band 48 Hypotheticals 49 Noisy disturbance 50 Fence material? 51 “I’m getting to it” 52 Curious to a fault 54 Galileo’s birthplace 55 Partner of 46Down
56 Talk show medium
59 Cat Nation people 61 Industry heavyweights 63 Airport sign 64 Flutter 66 Colorful appetizer platter items
68 “The Call of the Wild” ride 69 Outdoor party focal point 72 Run off 74 “Swing Shift” Oscar nominee 77 Free sample constraint 78 Farm denizen 79 Exiled Shah Mohammad __ Pahlavi 81 Press Secretary Spicer 82 Taylor’s husband between Wilding and Fisher 83 City near Tulsa 85 Still developing 87 Return ID 88 Former “How Do Your Children Grow?” PBS host LeShan 89 Alert precipitated by heavy rain 92 Follower’s suffix 93 Getting into the wrong business? 95 Duncan of the Obama Cabinet 96 They’re on the house 98 Sandberg in Cooperstown 99 Biker’s headgear, perhaps 101 Weeds out 103 Confirm, as a password 106 Descriptor in lotion commercials 107 Wrangler material 108 Audio system connector 110 Annual Silver State celebration 114 Goes for the lure 115 Espresso order 116 “Agreed!” 117 Whittle 118 Aromatherapy choice 119 Far-reaching 120 Put to sleep, perhaps 121 Some emailed files
DOWN
1 Comfy footwear 2 Crown-installing org.
3 Sloth, e.g. 4 Aquanaut’s habitat 5 Time off 6 Tacked on 7 Power conduit 8 Squalid quarters 9 Gave one’s word 10 Fingerprint pattern
11 Big name in auto maintenance 12 Word near Kazakhstan, on maps 13 Composer Rorem 14 Holy 15 Improvise 16 Golfer Isao 17 Secluded spot 18 Many a retired racehorse 24 Get a hint of 26 Piece of the past 28 Charged 30 Brand measured in drops 31 Completely behind 32 Newspaper revenue source 33 Run over 34 Online icon 36 Difficult to find 37 Start to tour? 38 Gorilla Glue, for one
39 How sun-dried tomatoes are packed 40 “Tut-tut” evokers 43 Military drill syllable 44 “You’ve found the right person” 45 Brand with a spokesstork who sounds like Groucho 46 Partner of 55Across
51 File command option 53 Cried out 55 Inner turmoil 57 __ Butterworth 58 Streamlet 60 Trilogy, often 62 Meeting staple 63 Bad-mouth 65 Campaign funding org. 67 Bringing home 69 Clan symbol 70 Battery pole 71 Mr. Right 73 Opera star Pinza 75 Culinary guard in ancient Rome 76 Landscape artist George 78 Samaritan’s offering 80 National Humor Mo. 84 Creamy quaff 85 Factor in tanning 86 It’s usually down for the night 89 Go by quickly 90 Like some index cards 91 Claret or burgundy 94 England’s first poet laureate 97 Bank offering for smartphones 99 Word of agreement 100 “All the Love” singer Adams 101 Flu symptom 102 Fatuous 103 Messy meal 104 Many a Charlton Heston movie 105 Haul
106 Yard or boom 107 How-to presentation 109 NATO member since 2009 110 Collar 111 Today’s honoree, found in this puzzle’s eight longest answers 112 Boxer’s comment 113 No denial?