Los Angeles Times

Up the River

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

- By Alan Olschwang

ACROSS

1 Back biter? 6 They're rarely good dance partners Worry word 10 Nut under a tree 14 Sherlock's adversary 19 Adler Zero-star meal 20 Hard finish? 21 Big fight 22 Words on the street? 23 Big Island port 24 Spanish pronoun 25 Window treatment 26 Cargo unit 27 Lennon classic covered 28 by Pentatonix Like some riots 31 Absurd 33 Aborted operation 35 Something to learn 36 Willamette University 37 home "Enigma Variations" 39 composer Scary biter 41 Coral Sea sight 45 More hard-up 48 Square dance milieu 50 Turn 51 NBC weekend staple 52 Ancient German 53 Fuming 55 Polishes, as prose 56 Support source 58 Job listing ltrs. 60 Bacon and eggs, say 61 Puts in order 62 Police protector 64 Woodworkin­g supply 66

Workable wood 68 Firmly affixed 69 State with confidence 71 Span. title 73 Hastings hearth 76 Deserve 77 Tells 79 Hostile force 81 Cartesian conclusion 84 Volvo competitor 86 Freshen 88 Sitarist Shankar 89 Like hiss or boom 90 Snappy dresser 92 Scandinavi­an capital 94 Fictional wolf's 95 disguise Employ to excess 97 Fisherman with pots 99 Algonquian chief 100 Govt. issue 101 Arabian peninsula 102 capital Infatuate 104 Intestine sections 106 Plumed birds 108 Dr. Brown's classic 112 Ivy in Ithaca 115 Seek office 117 Baby bug 118 Wedding reception eyecatcher 119 Worked up 121 Spender of rials 122 French 101 infinitive 124 "Power Hits" series 125 record label Went off the deep end 126 Picked a ticket, 127 perhaps Board 128 Lowly worker 129 Christmas symbol 130 Lyrical poetic form 131

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1 Peruvian volcano El — 2 Wrinkle-resistant fiber 3 Cants 4 "Barbara —": Beach Boys hit British actor who 5 played Algy Longworth in 1930s Bulldog Drummond movies DOL watchdog 6 Garage job 7 Book sheet 8 Freeloaded 9 Stupefied state 10 Western actor who 11 taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip More pretentiou­s 12 Waterproof­s, perhaps 13 Cynical Bierce who 14 defined "sweater" as "Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly" "Titanic" theme 15 vocalist Broad assortment 16 Bausch + Lomb brand 17 Rorem and Beatty 18 Qantas hub letters 29 Tertiary Period stones 30 — Martin: Bond's car 32 Like italics 34 Middle of dinner? 38 Turn right 40 Capa attacker 42 Scand. land 43 Circle's lack 44 Gemini rocket stage 45 Some library volumes 46 Caribbean sorcery 47 Sorbonne student 49 Nocturnal tree dweller 50 Trueheart of the 54 comics Problem with a line 57 Turn over 59 Was perfectly tailored 61 Glass component 63 Ancient home of Irish 65 kings Academic specialty 67 Sister of Rachel 70 A lot more than a little 72 mistake It may have a swivel 73 top Get together with old 74 classmates, say China —: showy bloom 75 Memorable line from 76 Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" Religious recluse 78 Unpaid bill 80 Energy bits 81 Ancient Japanese 82 capital Brush fire op 83 Third James Bond 85 novel Samba relative 87 Filmdom's Thompson 90 and Watson 1961 Literature 91 Nobelist Andric Plant studied by 93 Mendel Hamlet's homeland 96 Puts in another roll of 98 film Up till now 101 First word in Dante's 103 "Inferno" Taunts 105 Grain bane 107 Sister of Calliope 109 Not sharp or flat 110 Rather nasty 111 Storm harbinger 112 Marsh bird 113 Name on 114 the column "At Wit's End" Hungarian 116 city known for red wine Seasonal worker? 120 Swiffer WetJet, e.g. 123

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