LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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.