Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD Inner city
ACROSS
1 Plot again
6 Brand created by a periodontist in the 1950s 11 Zap
15 Kite user’s verb 18 Yawning
19 Iris aperture
20 Being broadcast 21 Toledo’s lake 22 *Alternative to a pizza oven
24 Word derived from the underworld god Orcus 25 Quarterback’s option 26 “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer
27 Birds that tell time? 29 Tolkien race
30 What Brits cross to get here
34 Forsaken
35 Orange __
36 Like some airports: Abbr. 38 *Office group leader 42 Those with clout
43 Reef dweller
45 Line of clothing 46 Harsh
48 Blow away
49 Latin being
51 Part of a court game name 53 Elimination 56 General on a menu 57 Rat
59 Antique shop transaction 60 *Online gaming attraction 65 Designer Cassini 67 Street in Mason’s office 68 Sews up 69 Dynamic start? 70 Norse patron 72 Encouraging words 73 Rotund man in a bright suit 75 Metalworking union 77 *Mathematical abstraction with evenly spaced integers 79 Farriers’ tools
81 Like some mistakes 83 Ode title starter 84 Shooting marble 86 Passion
87 Daring exploit 89 Luthor, to Superman 92 Not for kids
94 Sign up 96 Wrangles
98 Former General Motors division
100 *Only occupant of
Vostok I
102 Varieties
103 Teaspoon equivalents,
roughly
105 Goddess with cow’s horns 106 Track wagers
109 Conception
110 Not full
113 Judging groups
116 Ring at the chapel
117 YA fiction reader
118 Startup funds ... and a hint to what’s hidden in the answers to the starred clues
122 Manitoba tribe
123 Fails to be
124 Beach, in Baja
125 Futuristic toon dog 126 Monopoly token
127 D-Day craft
128 Gunpowder ingredient 129 Feed, as a fire
DOWN
1 “Streamers” playwright 2 Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer
3 “The Egg and I” woman
4 In an imitative way 5 Parts of a pound 6 Special __
7 Same old same old 8 GI’s address
9 “The Mod Squad” role 10 __ cheese
11 Began to deal with 12 Fluffy felines
13 Like gales vis-à-vis breezes 14 Gift-wrapping times, perhaps
15 *Lead singer of a group whose first two Top 40 hits reached #1
16 Champ dethroned by Clay in 1964 17 Approvals
21 Duel tool
23 Political initials since 1884
28 V8 relative
31 Elevator name 32 Hawaiian goose
33 Court figs.
35 Program for future docs 36 Draft pick
37 When repeated, a cautioning word 39 Wherewithal 40 Timbuktu’s land 41 Incessantly 44 Cancún cash 47 Reddish rash 50 McGwire rival 52 Apple storage place 54 __ wrench 55 Limited-term usage contract
56 More irritable
57 Eric of “Pulp Fiction” 58 Position of control 60 Travel docs 61 Defeatist’s words 62 *Breakfast order usually made with ham, onion and green pepper 63 “Ben-Hur” author Wallace 64 Valuable rocks
66 Idle talk
71 “Cone of shame” docs 74 Quiets
76 90 degrees
77 Wafer brand
78 Goes bad
80 In __: as found 82 Twinge
85 Strange quality 87 Unofficial EU leaders group
88 Peak seen from Messina 89 15-Down singing style 90 TV planet
91 Start to save? 93 Political opposition 95 Cause of yelling, often 97 One working on a bench? 98 Snag
99 Writer Welty
101 2014 World Series champs
104 __ ale
107 Tax pro
108 Calamares or caracoles 110 Elec., e.g.
111 Locker room shower, at
times?
112 Where to find a hero 114 Bit of mischief
115 Wild plum
119 Wolf down
120 Salon coloring
121 Saturn or Mercury