L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Crunch beneficiaries 4 Agnus __

7 Rustic dwelling 13 Using a passport, say 19 Newman song that mentions Santa Ana winds

21 Decisive point 22 Persuasive sort 23 Polite but unyielding statement? 25 Stimulate 26 Petroleum source 27 Legendary rock guitarist 28 2018 Pyeongchang org. 30 Author Ferber

31 Bolt of lightning? 33 Caulking crew? 37 Building where things are taken back? 42 Within reach

43 How some dares are made

44 Major arteries 46 Impressive groupings 49 Seed cover

50 Flier’s choice

52 Sign on an available boutique?

55 Braun competitor 57 Director DuVernay 59 Comply

60 Joint for jumping 61 __-Cat

62 “Yikes!” 64 Empathetic comment 66 More than wondered 67 Serf surrounded by whales?

71 Leaves painfully 75 Wonder’s “My Cherie __” 76 __ game 77 Chemicals giant 80 Colorful fish

81 Levee

83 Org. that often strikes 85 Holiday candle holder 87 Fort Bragg lodger? 90 Crèche figure 92 Swelter

93 Bit of information 94 Avis rival

96 Former Disney CEO 98 One of a cube’s 12 99 Director Oliver to the rescue? 101 Never-used part of the house?

106 It’s stunning

107 Denny’s competitor 108 “__ who?”

109 Bowls over

111 Capital of France

115 Recovered from a

knockout

118 Godzilla and friends

solemnly recite?

122 Did away with 123 Taft-Hartley Act subject 124 Prurient material 125 Dinged

126 One who’s really hot 127 Inexperienced

128 Iditarod segment

Down

1 Zeroes in 2 Uninspired 3 Common mixer 4 Land adjoining a manor house

5 Wearer of a “Y” sweatshirt

6 Like most sonnets 7 “High Voltage” band 8 Criticism

9 Canyon part

10 Doc bloc

11 Wrestle suffix

12 Laud 13 Untouched serve 14 A penalty may be served in one

15 Triple Crown venues 16 Rust, for example 17 Insurance giant 18 Fantasy

20 Highly prized 24 Defender of Troy 29 Cocktail hour nibble 32 Embassy employee 33 Arrange dinnerware on 34 Time spans

35 Brazen

36 Fictional Civil War novel setting

37 Colorful horses 38 Ill-fated Houston company

39 Capital on the Nile 40 Mardi Gras acronym 41 Two-time British Open champ

45 Fleeced

47 Civil War soldier 48 Dagger of yore

51 New Rochelle campus 53 Caribbean sorcery 54 Fictional newsman Baxter 56 Cuts short

58 Cause trouble 63 Japanese seaport 65 Shot that misses everything

66 Gulf between Yemen and Somalia

68 Tweak, perhaps 69 Apple or pear 70 Dishes from a “station” 71 Assignment

72 Tech debut of 2010 73 Operate using a beam 74 Shakespeare play featuring Ariel 77 Clog clearer

78 Like some buckets 79 “__ Everybody Knows Your Name”: “Cheers” theme song

81 Stoop

82 Bays, e.g. 84 Compulsively neat, say 86 Hamper

88 Cry with a flourish 89 Neighbor of Ghana 91 Kitchen gadget

95 Fast flight 97 Understanding words 100 Egypt’s second president 101 Cut into cubes

102 Chicago hub

103 Type of numeral

104 Victim of Romulus 105 Atmospheric layer 109 5forBor6forC

110 Jerry in the NBA logo 112 Complain

113 Previously

114 Unaccompanied

116 Kickoff aid

117 Abnormal

119 Squelch

120 Sponge (up)

121 Novelist Levin