Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
The long and short of it
ACROSS
1 Make a face, perhaps
7 Tab on old cash registers
13 Tarkington tween
19 Disagreeable
20 Brunch fare
22 Like zebras and donkeys
23 __ pin: metal fastener
24 They know their stuff
25 Plants with flavorful and
irritating varieties
26 Sweaters in King Arthur’s court?
29 “Ciao!”
30 Shiraz’s country
31 PC shortcut key
32 Earth goddess
34 Offshore retreat for
comedians?
43 NL West team
47 Thing thrown from a tree?
48 Hotel selection
49 Director Kazan
50 Clog (up)
53 Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, e.g.
56 Swindle
57 “Best ever” acronym
58 Harsh-smelling
60 Spectrum maker
62 Query to a U.K.-focused
think tank?
68 Pic, in Peru
69 Buffalo QB Josh
70 Utah ski resort
72 Altered the revealing side of a dress?
80 Work with pupils
81 Mazda two-seater
82 Adverb for Descartes
83 Police force acronym
86 Venue for the premiere of Handel’s “Water Music”
90 Genesis casualty
91 Come across
92 Capital of Yemen
94 Allows access
96 Diner counter array
98 Siblings who produce court orders?
101 Tusked beast
103 Like the lower half of the Polish flag
104 Allows access, poetically
106 Major appliances
111 Dieters’ interim report on smaller-sized clothes?
119 March
120 Out of the loop
121 Prison with a Greek eponym
122 Worshipper
123 Lead off
124 Kitchen gadget
125 Defy
126 Biological quintet
127 Members of the genus Vipera
DOWN
1 Saves, with “away”
2 Pot boiler in “Macbeth”
3 Remove, as a knot
4 Female driver Ortiz of “Fast & Furious” films
5 Augur
6 Rookie
7 Cosa __
8 Missouri River city
9 Ordinal for Uranus
10 Bygone fruit spray
11 Longtime TV host who gives automotive advice in “Popular Mechanics”
12 Caesar’s penultimate words
13 Mortar partner
14 Congo line?
15 More than cold
16 Currency of 30-Across
17 In the distant past
18 __ Arc, Arkansas
21 Common ID
27 Quaint word of revulsion
28 South Asian lentil dish
33 Evaluate
35 Sam-I-Am offering
36 Rutgers URL ending
37 Android alternative
38 Won all the games 39 Official note from the boss
40 What beaux do
41 Texter’s letters for two
cents?
42 “That’s unfortunate”
43 Simon who played Scotty in 2009’s “Star Trek”
44 Distant
45 Unicellular alga
46 Onomatopoeic rapping
47 Notebook type
51 Network for film buffs
52 Gold in La Paz
54 Sch. near Providence
55 Term starter
59 Chopped liver purveyor
61 Something taken on a bus
63 Transfer point
64 Sammie with crunch
65 Twenty quires
66 Bay of Bengal’s ocean
67 Sound system
71 Madonna companion, in much art
73 Put away
74 Dresden “Drat!”
75 Word on old tablets 76 Hook partner
77 The VW Amarok, e.g.
78 __ fresca: pico de gallo
79 Little ones 83 Bismarck-to-Tucson dir.
84 Journalist Hemingway’s assignment
85 Singer DiFranco
87 “No big deal”
88 Summer at the Sorbonne
89 Bygone geopolitical abbr.
93 Wears down
95 Meteorological lines
97 Put on display, with “out”
99 Go back
100 Dedicated verse
101 Engenders
102 Brutus Buckeye is its mascot: Abbr.
105 Intrinsically
107 Made an official choice
108 IRS option
109 More amiable
110 Marquee names
111 Enjoy the kiddie pool
112 Cupid analog
113 Sreenivasan of PBS News
114 Oft-corked container
115 Chicago pizzeria franchise, familiarly
116 Security source
117 Hotel bed request
118 Valley with vintners
119 Course goal for many