LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

ILLEGAL TENDER

ACROSS

1 “Please stay” 7 Fallopian tube

neighbor

12 __ Beta Kappa 15 Just peachy, in old

slang

18 Tool for winter

fishing

19 “I swear!”

20 Royal problem? 21 Superhero sound

effect

22 Mad money? 24 Lingerie brand 25 Chapter in history 26 Close-knit team 27 Navel type

28 Grant money? 30 Takes too much,

briefly

31 The OED’s 21,728,

e.g.

33 Australian rockers

__ at Work 34 Shoot for

35 Voice below

soprano

36 French toppers 39 NFL pass rushers,

as a unit

40 Hot money? 45 They’re used for

emphasis 47 Olympian Bolt 48 Bit of info

49 Nasty type 50 Social media pic

that may go viral 51 Intrinsically 52 Ransom money? 56 Amtrak track 57 Talk Like a Pirate

Day word 58 Undoing

60 “What else could it

be?!”

61 Go head to head 62 From sunup to

sundown 64 Afterwords 67 Greek goddess of wisdom 69 Hawaiian staple 70 Gamer’s complaint 72 Arrived at, as a conclusion 73 BuzzFeed reaction button 75 Wears on

76 Old money? 79 Dishes out incautiously 81 Sister of Rachel 82 Mercedes-Benz sedan line 83 “What are you gonna do about it?!”

84 Put on 85 Should really 87 Paper money? 89 Type of drum or dance 90 Cassock wearer 92 Long, long time 93 Heavenly body? 94 Bear in Baja 95 Seder staple 97 Pres. when Sputnik was launched

100 Bad money? 103 Hindu teacher 105 Rumble in the Jungle setting 107 Celtic Sea land, to the IOC

108 Hard end? 109 Smart money? 111 Wonderland drink 112 “I would consider __ honor” 113 Backwoods type 114 Self-referential “Don’t you think?” 115 Fizzy prefix 116 Flyers’ org. 117 Witherspoon of “Wild” 118 African pest

DOWN

1 ’70s music genre 2 Pie slices, often 3 Water and air, e.g.

4 Peter the Great, e.g. 5 Strategy 6 Be indebted to 7 As expected 8 Battery count

9 Jai __ 10 Ancient mariner’s story, e.g. 11 Positive answer 12 Besties 13 Runner’s __ 14 Unfavorably 15 Feature of club nights for comic wannabes 16 Main cast of “Parasite,” e.g. 17 Discarded old PCs, say 20 Finer-tipped 23 Well-intentioned humanitarian 28 Like a bairn 29 Fried foods, vis-àvis baked ones 32 Georgia airport code

33 Dash in a spice rack?

35 Word rarely used without “far” 36 Living symbol of happiness 37 State tree of Massachusetts 38 No-nonsense 40 Undeserved punishments 41 Rely heavily on 42 Hermanos, primas, etcétera 43 Ballet-inspired workout method 44 Oft-mispunctuated word 46 Time Person of the Year et al. 49 Compressed file format 51 Accounts __

52 Ski slope apparel 53 Stuff oneself silly 54 Connection

55 Pet control aids 59 Tavern mugful 63 Tina Fey’s boss on “30 Rock” 65 Devices made largely obsolete by smartphones 66 NFL ref’s review aid 68 Multinational hotel chain 71 Understand 74 Like many La Scala productions 77 Bookkeeper’s book 78 Ovarian hormone 80 Rent

83 ’60s protest gp. 84 Big bores 85 Special guest, perhaps

86 Like many Cubist paintings 87 Fair-hiring inits. 88 “__ me!” 89 Bolivian bungalow 91 Sorta cousin 95 Former fillies 96 More than enough 97 “__ We Almost Have It All” 98 Mildly annoyed cries 99 Unnerving 101 Swear words? 102 River through Orsk 103 Pump, e.g. 104 Aftermath 106 “Zip-__-Doo-Dah” 109 Home of many 2010s refugees: Abbr. 110 Magician’s source of surprises