Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“LOAF AFFAIR” By MIKE TORCH
ACROSS
1 Breaks off 6 Window
framework 10 Kicks off 15 Cake-finishing artist 19 Dugout, for one 20 Either of matching words, in a way: Abbr. 21 Home to the Palazzo della Ragione
22 Pew area 23 Flopped financially 24 ’60s protest slogan
26 In
27 Bread worshipers?
29 In a dishonorable manner 31 Makes serious
demands on 32 __ Geo: cable
channel 33 Source of intolerance 34 Frequent savers
37 Time div. 39 “One of Ours” Pulitzer-winning author
40 Kick out 41 Musical composition about a breadloving pack animal? 46 Cooped-up
critters
47 Arms carriers? 49 Concerns 50 Adjective for
rapper Kim 51 Bread joketeller’s trait? 54 Diet including wild fruit
56 Vote in favor 57 Music and art
genre 58 “Lemme __!” 59 Confines 60 Two-time A.L. Manager of the Year Francona, familiarly 61 Ballet movements 63 Cougar, e.g., briefly 64 Declining due to age
67 Harbor view
spot
68 Ore source 69 Easy
sequence? 72 Norwegian capital 73 Celebratory wish over Jewish bread? 77 “__ yours”: “My gift”
78 Gift recipient 79 Big hits 80 NASA approvals 81 Ibsen title character’s bread?
85 Stop in
Québec? 86 Immerses in
liquid
87 Get it wrong 88 Insurance company founded for rural workers 90 Takes back 92 Like some discount mdse. 94 Left-hand page 95 King in “The Tempest” 96 “Sorry, I meant to give you a plain burger”? 102 El __ 103 Orchestra section
106 Jenna, to Jeb 107 Nerd
108 Folding
declaration 109 Cosmo rival 110 Europop’s __
Base
111 Besides 112 Bottomless gulf 113 Passing out at the table? 114 Golf Channel analyst Wadkins
DOWN
1 Doctor’s order 2 Part of TTFN 3 Most eligible for service 4 Ineffective 5 Put a price on freedom?
6 Fine furs 7 Writer Nin 8 Reasonable 9 “Fixer Upper” network 10 Verdi creation 11 L.A.-based brewery 12 Tokyo, formerly 13 O.T. book 14 Religious
observances 15 Fretful
16 Bread that only appears for a short time? 17 Harmful aspects 18 Try a new shade on 25 Salon coloring 28 Program file
suffix 30 Masseuse’s target
33 “See ya!” 34 Architect Frank 35 Yellow-andwhite daisy 36 Sleep study
subject 37 Soybean paste 38 “Do __ you
must”
39 PC insert 41 Nursery sch. 42 Sharp 43 Mentions
specifically 44 Place 45 Disaster movie? 47 U.S. security 48 Norwegian capital 52 Option for a return 53 Precarious 54 Prefix with frost 55 Mandela’s org. 59 Bell sounds 60 Like the Oz woodsman 61 Singing voice, informally 62 Looney Tunes
stinker
63 Soften in feeling 64 Hop-jump link 65 Art Deco artist 66 Bread with a
winelike aroma? 67 Breathes hard 68 Ocean feature 69 Worship 70 15-Across coworker 71 Dermatologists’ concerns 73 Refines 74 “Good buddy” 75 Pick up 76 Blues musician’s “harp” 78 Literally, Greek for “bad place” 82 Lost Colony’s island
83 Big biceps, at the gym 84 Chef’s supply 85 London football
club
88 Aromatic herb 89 Part of MoMA 90 Span
91 The senior
Saarinen
92 Ear bone 93 Opposites of squeakers, in sports 94 Davis with an Oscar, Emmy and two Tonys 97 Employed 98 Luxor’s river 99 Cook Paula 100 B-school course 101 Rebel against 104 Diplomatic bldg. 105 Pop artist
Lichtenstein