Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Fatah party chairman 6 Battle souvenirs 11 Vanilla extract meas.

14 Super Bowl stats

17 Fairy tale villain 18 Saintly glows 19 “Desperate Housewives” character

20 __ & Chandon Champagne 21 Steepin’ oats in water?

23 Take, as advice 24 A few 25 Provider of a big

lift

26 Bush and Nixon: Abbr. 27 Marathoner’s lookin’-happy flush?

29 Whale group 30 Lack of trouble 32 “See ya later” 34 Processed food? 35 Hopkins’ role in “Thor” 37 Johnson Space Center humanoid project

39 Put faith in 41 Dunham and Horne 43 Disallow 44 “Cool it!” 46 Great Lakes natives 47 Beaufort scale word

49 Pol. neighbor 51 __ wait: lurk 53 Result of tossin’ an old mitt on the fire? 56 Chinese ethnic group that’s the world’s largest 57 Org. seeking far-out life 60 Physicians’ org. 61 50% of MIV 62 Fledgling 64 Goat sound? 66 2007 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee 68 1995 Stallone

title role

70 Stand for a

canvas

72 Base

information? 73 Energize

75 Split into thirds 77 Gym exercise unit

79 “__ the Senate!”: Darth Sidious 80 Snippy retort 81 Occurrence 82 Layin’ off football legend Red? 85 Unrefined 87 Custardy pastry 88 Voice-activated iPad app 89 Blink, say 91 Sign word beckoning a Canadian driver 94 Waze lines: Abbr. 96 Surprise in a bottle

99 In an edgy way 101 Pigs with four tusks

104 Petri dish gelatin

105 Blur in a tabloid pic 106 “Cheers” actress Bebe 108 Escalator handle?

110 Cape Town locale: Abbr. 111 Takin’ first place at the Olympics? 113 Phase out 115 First king of

Crete

117 Mushroomed 118 Brownie, maybe 119 Muttered complaint about a toe woe that’s really hurtin’? 122 Yale’s Ingalls Rink designer Saarinen 123 Males who meow 124 “Nothing for me”

125 Cause for a pause

126 “L.A. Law” actress

127 CDC overseer 128 Sounds shocked

129 Big Bertha’s birthplace

DOWN

1 Apt. coolers 2 Etiquette on frat row

3 Lettin’ the family elder onto the plane? 4 “My Way” lyricist

5 It flows below the Pont Neuf 6 Droop

7 Slider option

8 “I don’t give __!” 9 Granola morsel 10 Job application

no.

11 Former Senator Lott 12 Witnessed visiting 13 Purebred family tree

14 “You missed it” 15 Reduces in rank 16 __ prunes 19 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir 20 Chinese sauce

additive

22 In the area 27 Beat soundly 28 Keep healthy 29 D.C. dealmaker 31 One may be

choked back 33 Deep cuts 36 Chapati

alternative 38 Chip topper 40 “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer O’Connor 42 Dove into home, say 45 Prepares (for) 48 Geraint’s beloved

50 Show stoppers 52 Trainee

53 Island band The __ Men

54 Fish sauce taste

55 Saddle bands 56 Summer itch cause 58 Preparin’ husbands-to-be? 59 Luggage tie-on 63 Director DeMille 65 Up for it 67 Mideast capital 69 Wipe clean 71 Centipede’s many 74 Popular soup mushroom 76 Diligence 78 Fuddy-duddy 83 Unable to back

out 84 58.4 square miles, for Minneapolis 86 Verbosely 89 Foul caller 90 Arcane stuff 92 Gulps down 93 Reddish-brown

chalcedony 95 SFPD rank 97 Postulate starter 98 Nolan Ryan’s 1.69 in 1981: Abbr.

99 Pulled

100 Manga series

about gaming 102 Louise’s pal 103 __ Valley 107 They often get

hooked

109 From that time 112 Quantity in a

brace

114 Capone

adversary 116 Oxfam and

PETA, for two 119 Trending

120 Hoops stat: Abbr. 121 What a Hawaii vacationer may come home with