L.A. Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Like some stressed text
7 Perfect pass
13 Imp
19 Rattler commonly used in pairs
20 University staying power?
21 Mild, in Milan
22 Film with a feline baseball ace?
24 Not on TV yet
25 Roy Rogers’ birth name
26 Ninja Turtles’ ally April __
27 One end of the Chicago L’s
Blue Line
29 Shattering grenade, to a GI
30 Shunned the paper clip
32 Biopic about Frank from “Men in Black”?
34 Scraps 38 Cookout glowers
40 Artist’s asset
41 Clicked ballot
42 __ Martin:
Bond’s car
44 AOL alternative
45 Flier to Oslo
48 Comedy about a lost mutt?
53 Sports channel that shows college games
55 High-five, e.g.
56 “Insecure” star Rae
57 Not supporting
59 Mets’ slugger Alonso
60 Catalog
62 Greek vacation isle
65 Essential
67 Film about a composing pooch?
71 Not alfresco
74 Year, to Yves
75 Sampled
78 Deli order
79 Org. monitoring possible alien signals
81 Gillian’s Emmywinning role on “The X-files”
83 Settled
85 Small egg
87 Drama about organized disobedience at obedience school?
92 Frying pan spray
93 Mix masters, briefly?
95 Vols’ school
96 Golf caddie, e.g.
97 Help-wanted ad abbr.
98 “Me too”
100 Maria __, the last House of Habsburg ruler
102 Film romance starring Puss?
106 Like volcanic rock
109 “By yesterday!”
110 Clock __
112 Long-legged wader
113 Chops
117 Reeled off
119 Film in which Fido wins a place at the Round Table?
122 Unpaid debt
123 Pump part
124 Imitated
125 Flirts with
126 Rose to great heights
127 Hen holders
DOWN
1 Little devils
2 Detective, at times
3 Affectedly creative
4 Shoestring
5 “__ bin ein Berliner”: JFK
6 Holly Golightly’s creator
7 __ throat
8 Danger
9 Changes one’s tone of voice
10 Québec street
11 With a bow, to Anne-sophie Mutter
12 Beyond harmful
13 Goes back on one’s word
14 Gasteyer of “Mean Girls”
15 Put the kibosh on
16 Wispy clouds
17 Shaking like __
18 Pigeon’s perch
21 Trusted adviser
23 Some, in San Salvador
28 Courses for coll. credit
30 Load
31 Assure the failure of
33 Since, in a seasonal song
34 “Bill & __ Excellent Adventure”
35 Throat dangler
36 Beverage aisle options
37 It helps you get up
39 “__ objections?”
42 Horace’s “__ Poetica”
43 Last word of the most recent version of “America the Beautiful”
44 “The A-team” actor
45 Didn’t dillydally
46 One chip, maybe
47 Sought damages
49 Personnel staff
50 O.T. book after Neh.
51 Brit’s informal eatery
52 One, on a one
54 Fan at the game
58 Clothes line
61 “Lookee here!”
62 “Anderson Cooper 360°” channel
63 Poetic tribute
64 Landmark ’70s case anonym
66 Autobahn hazard
68 Censor’s target
69 Together, in Toulon
70 Eclectic magazine
71 Chain with links
72 St. Petersburg’s river
73 Originate, with “up”
76 A-listers
77 Eats well
80 Theoretical visitors
81 Cacophony
82 Landers of letters
84 Banks of “America’s Got Talent”
86 Ancient Dead Sea kingdom
88 Something to chew
89 Yours, to Yvette
90 Kramer, to Jerry
91 Sun Devils’ rival
94 Angry
54-Downs
97 Catches sight of
98 Down
99 Ear malady
100 Captured
101 Take shelter,
with “down”
102 Fort Knox unit
103 Rhone tributary
104 Pelvic bones
105 Bounders
107 Author Zora __ Hurston
108 Went astray
111 “Horrors!”
113 Greeting from Kermit
114 Star features
115 Put an edge on
116 Benchmarks: Abbr.
118 __ kwon do
120 Spanish “that”
121 Cpl., e.g.