L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Off to a good start

ACROSS

1 Dojo maneuver 5 Guitarist Joe of The Eagles

10 Wilts

14 Start of an incantation 18 The last Mrs. Chaplin 19 Slow down 20 Shiraz’s land 21 Trickle 22 Awesome product component? 24 Awesome mattress covering?

26 Step on it

27 Stuck a fork in 29 Glenn Miller Orchestra singer Ray 30 Immortal name in dance 32 Ultimatum word 33 Staring-into-space experiences

34 DEA agent

36 Court game word 39 Routine 40 Stubborn critter 43 Awesome plumbing connector?

48 Tiny toiler

49 Fall collection? 51 More consequence? 52 Poetic adverb

54 “__ & Basie”: 1963 jazz collaboration

55 “True Detective” actor McNairy

56 Bump from the schedule 60 Peacock’s pride

64 QVC sister channel 65 Shot in the arm

66 Wall St. trader 68 Awesome hobby? 70 Awesome hunting dog? 72 Bit of legal advice 73 Lose control 74 Chicken dinner choice 75 Support 76 Gallivant

78 Sound

80 Wine choice 81 Originally called

82 Tool in a kit 84 Shadowed 86 Low-tech note-taking aid 88 Awesome entitlement? 91 Snake’s sound 92 Zodiac animal 93 Vacation spot 94 “Truly, the souls of men are full of __”: Shak. 96 “We the Living” novelist 100 Big drink of water 104 Retail outlets

108 Low wind

109 Like some receptions 112 In a showily pretentious

manner

113 Awesome suit fabric? 115 Awesome predicament? 117 Tennis great Nastase 118 Villain named Julius 119 Points at the dinner table 120 Pepsi rival

121 Picnic staple 122 Cereal grain 123 Mocking sarcasm 124 Arab leader

DOWN

1 Movie mogul Harry and sportscaster Linda

2 Lift

3 Checked out at the library 4 Ease, as symptoms 5 Ring org.

6 Scythe blade shapes 7 Starbucks serving

8 Bar word meaning “cup” in Danish

9 Sage and thyme

10 Pro or con

11 2000s Yankee nickname 12 Sign of something missing 13 Unkind look 14 Whitish

15 Tailgate party recyclable 16 Campaign poster word 17 Most pertinent

22 Org. in Clancy novels 23 Wheel inventor 25 Govt. agency that aids entrepreneurs

28 “Get lost!”

31 Hosp. readout 33 Bolivian export 35 Units of resistance 37 ‘80s-’90s Compaq laptop model

38 Prepare sans oil, as a movie treat

40 Israeli leaders? 41 Betray

42 Soldier, at times 44 Electronics whiz 45 “Mending Wall” poet 46 Wrinkle remover 47 Continues 48 Supplier of bills 50 Seductress

53 Far from fragrant

57 It may be skipped 58 Security rounds 59 Locks

61 Bellow title hero March 62 One looking for a switch, maybe

63 Those, in Tijuana 65 Coastal California scenic attraction

67 Basenji and Borzoi 69 Flips

70 Katherine of “Suits” 71 Edible seaweed 74 1970 Kinks hit 77 What’s more

78 Like Miss Congeniality 79 Writer Bagnold 83 Trouble 84 Prominent, after “on” 85 “... but it’ll cost you” 86 __ tax

87 “The Bourne Identity” malady

89 Assist

90 Test for M.A. seekers 92 Yeshiva leaders 95 One involved in a speculative “bubble” 97 Fix, as a hem 98 AIDS-fighting drug 99 Salon overhaul

101 Bridge positions 102 Novelist Shaw

103 Actress Davis

105 Kipling’s “__-Tikki-Tavi” 106 Less well

107 Word of support 109 Small change

110 Bothers

111 Critter on XING signs 114 Notable time

116 Word of reproof