Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“NUMBER ONE FAN” By VICTOR BAROCAS

ACROSS

1 Jennifer Saunders Britcom 6 Supporting structure 11 When tripled, “and so on” 15 Scandinavian language 19 PowerPoint unit 20 Greek goddesses of the seasons 21 K.C. Royal, e.g. 22 Snapchat cofounder Spiegel 23 Neighbor of Montenegro 25 Gaiety 27 Fleeced female 28 Put up 29 Goalkeeper’s success 30 Mournful melody 31 Fleece-seeking vessel

34 Knew unfavorable things about 37 Cabinetmaker’s cylinder 41 Obama : Bo :: FDR : __ 42 Pre-riot state 43 Put the blame on 45 Bamm-Bamm’s

mom

47 Like Chichén

Itzá pyramids 48 Harp constellation 49 Brought in 51 “Don’t Bring Me Down” rock gp. 54 Comparison phrase

56 In the “Other” column 60 Knuckler’s lack 63 T or F, maybe 65 Astronomer

Hale 66 Japanese comics 67 Solving a problem boldly 73 Favorite’s surprise 74 Learning method 75 Knee-injury

initials

76 Uncle __ 77 Tony Gwynn, notably 82 Sailor’s saint 84 U.N. worker protection gp. 85 Normand of silents

86 Part of Q.E.D. 88 Port near Sapporo 92 Holy, to Henriette 94 Ill-advised 96 “A Fish Called Wanda” actor 99 Important pipe 101 German state named for a river, with “the” 102 Complaint about monotony 106 Audible alert 107 Greek marketplace 108 Plot measure 109 “Swell!” 112 Carawayflavored bread 115 Exam for intellectual property lawyers 117 Narcissistic trait exhibited perfectly by this puzzle’s eight other longest answers 120 Medical suffix 121 Actress Fanning

122 Eatery freebies 123 Command to

attack

124 Japanese PCs 125 Useless,

battery-wise 126 Beginning 127 Imitation

DOWN

1 1975 Wimbledon champ 2 Botched

3 “Ask me

anything” 4 Carpentry tool 5 Wax maker 6 “__: Ragnarok”: 2017 superhero film

7 Meander 8 Robert of “Vega$” 9 Resident of America’s highest capital 10 Coral __ 11 Piano brand 12 Advil alternative 13 Reduction of legal constraints, briefly

14 Part of ETA: Abbr.

15 With a touch of sweetness 16 Opposed 17 Tropical fruits 18 What manslaughter lacks 24 Composer

Telemann 26 Words of denial 29 Mo.’s largest airport

32 Did some home maintenance 33 Narrow valleys 35 Pops

36 Surpass

37 Mil. award 38 Plant also called a New Zealand yam

39 Wuyi Mountains tea

40 It breaks in the morning 44 Play about Capote 45 Actress Vaccaro 46 Mind reader? 49 Anaheim baseball cap feature

50 Name dropped by TASS in 2014 51 Paperless periodical 52 Subpar car 53 “Waiting for Lefty” playwright 55 Earth tone 57 Not free-range 58 Fled on foot 59 Item gifted with a fountain pen 60 “Pardon me, Giulia” 61 Post-larval 62 “__ problem” 64 Dance floor flasher 68 “Lord, is __?”: Matthew 69 What optimists don’t give up 70 List-ending abbr.

71 Summer brew 72 Every one of 78 Roast host 79 Needlefish 80 Controlling 81 RN workplaces 83 “S.W.A.T.” star

Shemar 87 Crunch targets 89 Not for free 90 Toon canine 91 Grand Forks

sch.

92 One looking

ahead 93 City near Lake Nasser

94 Hamm of soccer 95 Neighbor of Cameroon 96 “Cat’s in the Cradle” singer Harry 97 Papal representative 98 Designed to

light a fire? 99 Damaged 100 Iron __

103 Triangular building feature 104 City including the former site of a Seminole War fort

105 Glowing signs 110 Entr’__

111 Evaluate

113 Flemish river 114 One of 11 for Julia LouisDreyfus

116 Texas senator

Cruz

117 Moody rock

genre

118 PreCheck org. 119 Swindle, in

slang