L.A. Times Crossword
“FREE BOOZE” BY ED SESSA
ACROSS
1 God often depicted in a helmet 5 “Gracias a la vida” singer Mercedes
9 Fire sign 14 Marble piece 18 Lopsided win 19 K-12
appropriate 20 Dust-up
21 Fuel
22 Air freshener in the monkey house?
25 Artist Matisse 26 Secondhand
music purchase 27 Boxer Laila 28 “__ you see
that!?”
29 “Game of
Thrones” beast 30 D or C, in D.C. 31 Ready to take
reservations? 34 IJBOL
equivalent 36 Jiffy
37 Before now 38 Pink shade 42 Strange 45 Doohickey 48 College focus 53 Container for firecracker flowers?
56 Fun time
57 Jiffy __
58 Pest in a cloud 59 The Mel-Tones
lead singer 60 Rooked
61 Add yeast to 63 Broken mirror,
for some 65 Better than expected, except on the links
68 Storm center 69 Jump-start? 73 Tina Fey’s former show, for short 75 Hunter-gatherer
period
76 Low bar? 79 Takes as one’s
own
81 White Claw
container
82 __ seas 85 Pelvic bones 86 With the bow, in
music
87 One hanging
around a cave 88 Apparel for
linksbabies? 90 Used the oven 92 Mushroom in
miso soup 94 __ Jima 95 Edition 96 Actress
Thurman
98 O’er and o’er
again
100 Brynner of “The
King and I”
102 (Soup or salad) and (chicken or fish), e.g.?
110 Ready for fresh
paint
115 Smithy fixtures 116 Co. interested in
net neutrality 117 Potassium-rich
fruit
118 Patti who won a
Tony as Evita 119 French royal
120 Train conductor’s “That’s the end of the ride for you!”?
123 Took some
courses
124 Sports venue 125 “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” actor Omar
126 Big barrel
2/25/24 127 Husky’s load 128 __ longlegs 129 Sports figure 130 Bishoprics
DOWN
1 “Identical Twins” photographer Diane
2 Use the oven 3 Campfire
remnant
4 Fine English
china
5 Phrase on a
mailing label 6 Hardly fresh 7 Harvest bundle 8 Remoulade kin 9 “All seats taken”
sign
10 “The Sea, the
Sea” novelist 11 Studio sign 12 “Yes and no” 13 Doc with a tongue depressor 14 Tuna cut 15 Sound heard in
libraries? 16 Ohio tire city 17 Person 21 Psychedelic
fungus, casually 23 Spots on a
peacock feather 24 Morse clicks 29 Fetch player 32 Swanky do 33 Luggage 35 Access, as a
network 38 Legendary NYC
punk club 39 Actress Chaplin 40 Reason for a
detour
41 “Are not!” retort 43 TiVo, for one 44 Power
generator
46 “__ it my all” 47 Four-time presidential candidate
Ralph
49 __ mode 50 Youth
51 Follow
directions 52 “The False Mirror” painter Magritte
54 Arms treaty
subjects, briefly 55 One who avoids all animal products except fish
60 Words spoken with crossed fingers
61 “__ USA”:
NPR program hosted by Maria Hinojosa 62 Environmentalist
Brockovich 64 Lion’s share 66 Cranberry field 67 Bobbed
hairstyle
70 Like some
Peruvian ruins 71 “Terrif!” 72 Glosses over 73 Wound cover 74 Filmmaker
Ephron
77 In __ of
78 Cut with a beam 80 “The Last Jedi”
pilot Dameron 83 New Haven Ivy
Leaguer 84 Armed forces
org.
87 Burrito morsel 88 Some image
files
89 Soothing
massage option 91 Crossed swords 93 Water feature with ornamental fish
97 Some
humanities degs. 99 Spat
101 Batting ninth
102 Medieval poets 103 “The Rookie”
actress Melissa 104 Ewe-like
105 Like loose-leaf
paper
106 Cutlass model 107 Spanish
pronoun
108 City in southern
France
109 Country in two
continents
111 Apple players 112 Julianne of “Still
Alice”
113 Follow
114 Judges
120 Josh of “Frozen” 121 Actress Wray 122 Audit pro