LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

1 Did gondola duty 6 “Today” rival, briefly 9 Middling

13 Short staff? 18 Dollar alternative 19 Short trip

20 Alpha’s antithesis 22 Beat in the kitchen 23 “Wait ... let me start

over”

26 Najimy who voiced Peggy Hill in “King of the Hill”

27 Bad look

28 Heckle, but not

Jeckle

29 The “P” in PIN:

Abbr.

31 Unilever swab 32 Old manuscript

copier

34 Scalpel sites, for

short

35 Polynesian wrap 37 Rage

38 To the point

40 Spa sounds 41 Early pictures 43 Some online reads 45 Diamond surfaces 48 Georgia gridders,

to fans

49 “Ginger __”: 1952 Newbery Medalwinning book 50 “Spring forward”

letters

51 School reunion

attendee

52 Car radio button 54 Oxygen-eating

bacteria

56 Asian festival 57 Gets dirty

58 Busy center 61 Uncle Sam’s land,

proudly

62 Bunny tail 63 Coral component 64 Big shot: Abbr. 65 Cellar, but not

collar, opening 66 Belief common to

much religion 68 “Explain, please?” 70 Western PA airport

code 71 Disappearing retail

giant

73 Hosp. readouts 74 Lodge opening? 75 Patel of “Slumdog

Millionaire”

76 Gets one’s feet wet 77 Milne hopper 78 Caught

80 First novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle 82 Sign of a hit 83 Wks. and wks. 84 Platters in sleeves 85 Beautify

86 Puts down 88 Honors

90 Svelte

92 911 pro

93 Culture: Pref. 94 Friend of Goat in “Pearls Before Swine”

95 Some skippers 97 Flock hangout 99 List-shortening term 103 Sticks on a boat 105 Boat owner’s rental 106 Flat owner, maybe 108 Sound

109 Fitness mantra

opening

111 Method for slow,

steady progress 114 Like a fleabag

motel

115 Asian wraps 116 Dusk, to Donne 117 __ dish

118 Half of scissors? 119 Hacking targets:

Abbr.

120 Sellout letters 121 Hackneyed

DOWN

1 Beach toys

2 Early Mesoamerican sculptors

3 It may be golden 4 Some retired

academics

5 Point

6 Karmann __:

classic VW 7 President before

an Adams 8 Eponymous newborn score creator

9 Sauces for sushi 10 Yoga syllables 11 Overlook

12 Lustful looker 13 Comics cry from a

birdcage 14 Member of three L.A. Lakers championship teams

15 Feeling ecstatic 16 Stadium merch 17 Uses a Zoom

alternative

21 “Hair” dos

24 First name of Dickens’ Madame Defarge

25 Ed.’s stack 30 Dudley’s toon foe 33 Make every effort 35 Brother of Ham 36 Fancy poultry dish 39 Retired fliers: Abbr. 40 Superior to all

others 42 Sheepish girl? 43 Gentrification

target

44 Negative forecast 45 Campaign funders 46 Alaskan native 47 “SNL” staples 49 Took a breather 53 Heat up

55 O’er and o’er again 57 Features of urns 59 Loosens, as a tot’s

pajamas

60 Soft hits just over

the infield

62 Big name in tennis 66 Carpenter’s groove 67 Sierra __

69 LGBT History Mo. 72 Drawers?

78 “__ a loss” 79 Remote area known for its middle? 81 Hermione’s guy 82 Stream blockers 85 Assumed names 87 Paging devices 89 Family dinner fowl 90 Half of some

couples 91 Hershey’s caramel

candies

93 A time to dye 96 Granada girls

97 It’s a sign

98 __ Park, Colorado 100 Christine of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 101 Like radon, say 102 Home on high 104 Kick starter? 106 L, in box scores 107 “What a mess!” 110 TV’s Burrell and

baseball’s Cobb 112 Ocean flipper 113 Back (out)