L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Low-tech glossary

ACROSS

1 Next to nothing? 5 New newts

9 Trying to break a tie, briefly

13 Battle zone journalist 18 Courier alternative 20 Area below Greenwich Village 21 Equivalent of neener 22 Weeper of myth

23 Part of a parallel parking lesson?

26 “I might” 27 Redundant modifier of “bit”

28 Sealskin boot 29 Castle defense

31 City west of Boise

33 “__ for Alibi”: Grafton novel

34 Sch. in Manhattan 38 One of Mary Stuart’s people

40 When one might have a late lunch

42 Pet store array 43 Lead-in for worm 44 Hesitates

46 Cookie recipe?

48 1977 Steely Dan album 49 Pleasing application 50 Nonfiction piece 52 Mayall of “Drop Dead Fred”

53 Go right to the top? 54 Monetary promises 55 Pretty pitcher 56 Starbucks order 58 Stats for NFL defensive linemen

59 Fishing __

60 Tar Heel State campus 61 Corporate agreement finalizer

62 Basic security feature 64 USN rank

65 Déjà vu?

68 Shore bird

71 Graph’s depiction 73 Schulz’s “psychiatric help” dispenser

74 Tot’s scrape

75 New beginning 76 Devious intentions 78 Scrap

80 Soft shoes

81 PC scrolling key

82 Not often seen 83 “What __ the odds?!” 84 Get clean

85 Board game with a lawsuit card

86 Org. with a two-leaved flower logo 87 Spider-Man?

91 Best way to play, teamwise 93 Wrinkly-faced dog 94 Bars on the road 95 Actress Samantha 97 Tax-evasion agts. 98 Deceptively convincing 100 Bearded bovine

101 Not quite first-stringers 103 Fords whose initials didn’t actually stand for anything

104 West Coast surfing

mecca

106 Musical symbols

109 Just not done

112 What a jittery camera

operator may be having? 116 Candy heart words 117 Barely made it, with “by” 118 Where Zeno taught 119 Cellphone group pic, in

slang

120 Military rookie

121 Upbeat

122 Snippy return

123 Macy’s div., e.g.

Down

1 Locomotive compartment 2 Q.E.D. word 3 “Impressive!”

4 What most do in class 5 Medium power? 6 Configuration

7 Bank heist unit

8 Save, as money 9 Pakistan’s longest river 10 Stooge laugh

11 Row

12 Travelers celebrated

annually

13 How tour groups move 14 Mazda two-seater 15 Youngster

16 Go out on the beach? 17 Bad mark 19 Crescent-shaped

24 Poe title stowaway 25 Jennyanydots’ creator 30 Turow memoir

32 “I’ll skip it, thanks”? 34 “The Trial” author 35 Poirot’s note-to-self about locating the Orient Express murder weapon? 36 “Solve or spin?” host 37 Cafeteria staples 38 Swinging-doors site 39 Meteorologist’s rainfall prediction measure? 41 Skier’s aid

42 Gum source 44 Renaissance __ 45 Land with a 59-Across 47 Like many shakes

51 On its way

53 Ms. __-Man

56 Car battery pioneer 57 Tide table?

58 Apt rhyme for “eye” 60 Times to prepare 61 Cooks in oil 63 Happens 66 Michelob diet beers 67 Like arguments no longer worth having 69 European perch 70 A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title

72 W. Coast’s 101, e.g. 76 Jobs before the main job 77 Really enjoy 79 Eponymous chair maker 80 “CSI” actress Helgenberger 81 Crashed 84 Enchants

87 Bide one’s time during, as a storm

88 Bk. after Genesis

89 Much ado about nothing 90 Workout wt.

92 As far down as it’s been 96 Rule violations

99 Garlic unit

100 Overly showy

102 Prefix with tourist 104 Springfield bar

105 Composer Bartók

107 Wind similar to a piccolo 108 Small cut

109 Involuntary habit

110 Phrase on a menu

111 Bar order

113 “Top Hat” studio

114 Already acquired

115 Acquire