L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pond organism

5 Traffic sound

9 Spin, for one

14 Niger neighbor

18 Slight mitigation?

20 One dressed for dinner? 22 “I didn’t mean that” 23 Defense opponent, briefly 24 Preliminary negotiations 25 27 Bivouac structure 28 Sportage automaker 29 Olympic skater Ito 31 Mag. edition

33 Obliterate

37 Blow bubbles into 40 Canberra school 41 Benjamin of “Private Practice”

Italian peaks “Seriously?” Teachers’ org. Former Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale component

51

Fluorescent bulb element 53

Functions

Ring holders

Fish eggs

Toffee candy bar Alloys, e.g.

Corner office execs Word spoken con affetto Fine-grained wood Sleep it off “Shame!”

“On the Good Ship Lollipop” performer

71

Tach figure

Youth support group Antique

Storage facility sometimes found underground

New Mexico’s __ Ski Valley

78 “What __”: “Ho-hum” 79 Scoop

80 Part of TNT

81 Show some teeth 82 Washington soccer team 84 Lesser clergy member 86 88 Confirmed

89 90 Balaam’s mount

91 Vade __: handbook

92 Old Vatican bread

94 Port of __: Trinidad and

Tobago’s capital 96 Fashion initials 98 Hundreds, slangily 102 Plane wing parts

104 Driver’s lic. figure

105 Lacking what it takes 107 Mauna __

108 Blood prefix

110 Check out a wreck,

perhaps 43 44 46 48

77 112 115 Babysitters’ woes

119 Romcom, perhaps

121 Piton user

122 How titles may be written 123 Sludge

124 Wonder Woman’s __ of Truth

Chinese: Pref.

From Denver to Topeka 125 126

DOWN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

19 20 21 Island hopping

Golfer Sorenstam Canadian coin

Had success Picked hairdo Classic “Star Trek” order China’s Zhou __ Night school subj. Manning in Nationwide ads Amontillado holder Base reply?

“__: Miami”

Final part of a task Art Deco artist Watchword

PC space bar neighbor Bloke

Early civil rights activist __ B. Wells

Pro, country-style Colombian city Clear-minded 26 “Single Ladies (Put __ on It)”: Beyoncé hit

30 Pair

32 Relish

34 ATV part

35 Watches secretly

36 Legal titles: Abbr.

38 Actor Lew

39 Some action figures 41 Successful shot

42 Vocal effect

45 Subway line with a

Yankee Stadium stop 47 “Whoa!”

49 Payoff

51 “Laughing” Australian bird 52 “SNL” alum Kevin

54 Paul Bunyan tool 55 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry showpiece

Bobby on the ice

Has a loan from Windy City transp. org. Frito-Lay product with a spokes-feline named Chester

Put together, as film U.K. heads

__ A: Italian soccer league

“The Simpsons Theme” composer Danny 105-Down launch 57 59 61 62

64 65 67

68 70 73 75 Slew

“... the worst thing you can __ nothing”: Teddy Roosevelt Clobber

Attaché attachment African bovines Two-baggers: Abbr. High Timberlake’s former band Approve Commissioner’s Trophy org.

Welding fuel

“And So __”: Billy Joel song

97 Riyadh residents

99 Kid-lit pig

100 Elixirs

101 Like the best wisdom

103 Paving stone 105 70-Down launcher 106 Classic language

109 Dinner, for one

111 It has a Double Stuf

variety

113 The Beatles’ “__ Loser” 114 Burrowing rodent

115 Aetna offering

116 Tic-tac-toe win

117 Spanish light

118 ER workers

120 Young Skywalker’s

nickname

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93 95