L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Progress

ACROSS

1 Playground game with hoops

6 Blobby sci-fi villain 11 Biker’s protective wear 19 In the know

20 Fitness motto starter 21 Removes faded flowers

from

22 Fit

24 Brand with a Jumpman

logo

25 Regret

26 School near Windsor 27 Stiles of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a brainstorm 34 A, to Beethoven

36 Fair

37 Formal talk

39 Deer sir

43 Droid from Naboo, familiarly

46 Volume unit

48 Go inside

50 Long, long tail?

51 Start of a hopeful chant 55 Tower engineer 57 Simone’s state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be

62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed

66 Like some fried food 68 Letters on a bathroom tube

69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org. 75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet is often demanded

78 Cut of the loot

81 River past Logroño

84 It’s raised at a circus 85 Obligation

86 Many surfers 88 Ignore mistakes, say 92 Letters on a GI’s letters 93 Absorb, as a spill 95 Twitter rampage 96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first V8 ingredient

99 Yawning cause

101 Place to make a rial deal 103 Some tributes

105 Disney theme park

111 Part of many a plot 113 Bristol bye-bye

115 Bit of politeness from a hat-tipper

116 That guy, to Guy 117 Subject of many a watch 119 Family film feature 123 Enthusiastic to a fault 124 Elicit a chuckle 125 A detective may act on

one

126 Spoofs

127 Minibike kin

128 __ music

DOWN

1 Clues for DNA analysis 2 Accept the blame 3 Wild party

4 “No seats” sign

5 Job listing abbr. 6 “Precisely like this” 7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin 9 Marcel Marceau clown persona 10 Snacked 11 Princess with cinnamonbun locks

12 Not kidding 13 Asleep in Eng. class? 14 Cause of sticker shock at the florist?

15 They may be unsung 16 “CSI” actor George 17 Old food label figs.

18 I-9 ID 21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g. 23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div. 30 Suspects

31 Jordanian queen dowager 32 José’s hand

33 A light bulb may symbolize one

35 “It’s clear now” 38 Multi-lingual Irish singer 40 First golfing U.S. president 41 Pulitzer-winning author James

42 __ standard

43 Bowl, say

44 Was highly regarded 45 Formal wear item 46 1983 Indy 500 champ Tom

47 Fancy moldings 49 Throw very hard 52 Berkshire racecourse 53 Deadlocked 54 Alleged creation of Buffalo’s Anchor Bar 56 Wray of “King Kong” 60 Herd mentality output? 64 Golfer’s gouge

65 Pasta restaurant closing? 67 RPI and NIH

69 Cards, for short 70 Tiberius’ tongue 71 Blessed __

72 Casual Friday fabric 73 Musical workout, at times 74 Singer’s perfect pitch, say 75 “... chips-down” link 77 “Ciao”

78 Swedish auto

79 Bit of optimism

80 Lotion additive

82 Fuzzy memory

83 One taking a class over 87 Juice with a lizard logo 89 Picard’s counselor

90 Jon of “Mad Men” 91 Checkout action 94 Stamps

98 Figure with a cape 100 __ kit: Ancestry.com item 101 Signed off on

102 Speechless player 104 Like morning fields 106 Stimulate

107 Memory miscue

108 Pass-rushing group,

briefly

109 Prevention amount 110 Strength

111 Inventing middle name 112 Card holder, maybe 114 Pub mugfuls

117 Jazzy genre

118 Yokohama yes

119 Omelet filler

120 70-Down trio opener 121 Bright students’ org. 122 “How obvious”