LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD EDITED BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS BY ED SESSA
ACROSS
1 Balls and some
apples
6 “Bicycle Thieves”
director Vittorio 12 Cleopatra’s killer 15 Hindu epic hero 19 Wanting words 20 Spots for
spectacles 21 Lobbying gp. 22 Airline whose name means “to the skies”
23 *Band aide
25 Stuck playing a
familiar role 27 Pacific current 28 Top drawers? 30 Incomplete body of
art
31 Budgetary figures 34 *Period after a
crash, perhaps 36 Wood cutter
39 Do another hitch 40 Time VIPs 42 Burglar’s take 43 *Figure in many Monty Python routines
47 __ mentality 48 Ones using mixers,
for short
51 Former Sony brand 52 Afghanistan
neighbor
53 Saucer, briefly 55 “Hey, that’s great!” 58 Animal shelter 59 “Family Circus”
creator Bil 60 *Figurative place
for deferred options 62 “Give me a break!” 64 MLB’s “Splendid
Splinter” Williams 66 Phi follower 67 Staggers 68 *Airbags in cars,
e.g. 73 “Bless you” evoker 76 “That feels good” 77 Rum __ Tugger:
“Cats” role 78 Making a big deal
out of
82 *Hoops buzzerbeater, for one 85 Files in shop class 88 Emulate a
frigatebird 89 “Godzilla” franchise co-creator Tomoyuki __
90 LAX posting
91 Job safety org. 92 Eclectic magazine 93 Cephalopod’s
discharge
94 “__L”: “Bye for
now”
96 *Mall rarity on
Black Friday 100 Pained expression 102 Bank account ID 103 Very wide shoe 104 Pink Floyd’s Barrett 105 *Nightly barracks
routine
108 Biometric security
procedure
112 Mtge. issuer
113 Like some eaves in
winter
115 Pharaoh depicted
on the Sphinx 119 Capital east of New
Delhi
121 Wimbledon category, and a hint to the answers to starred clues 124 Gillette blade 125 Cool, like a cat 126 Crib outfit
127 Gaming rookies 128 Back in the day 129 Holiday song
syllables
130 Lipton rival
131 Forum garments
DOWN
1 Barb
2 Base runner?
3 Oz traveler 4 Welcome at the
door
5 Fight souvenirs 6 Hammarskjöld of
the U.N.
7 Historical period 8 “Sonic” consoles 9 Like krypton and
xenon
10 Don’t get
11 Piedmont bubbly 12 Likely will, after “is” 13 “Oh yeah?” 14 Angel dust, briefly 15 Snap back 16 Cause to sweat
17 Vertical billiards shot 18 __ sax 24 Well-known 26 Julius’ cry to
Marcus
29 ’60s activist gp. 32 Nobelist of 1903
and 1911 33 “William Tell,” e.g. 35 Big cheese 36 Rogaine target 37 No-frills font 38 “Holy Toledo!” 41 Beat handily 44 Florida coastal city
or its county 45 Red-and-white
topper
46 Scornful look 47 Latte variant 48 Ready to eat
49 “An Innocent Man”
songwriter
50 Canon AE-1 et al.,
for short
54 Cover for some
superheroes
56 “We don’t have
much time!” 57 Stealthily nears,
with “on” 59 Mauna __ 61 Modeler’s buy 63 Seller’s supply 65 Rachel Carson
subject
69 Quick snooze 70 Family name in
Chicago politics 71 Hubbub
72 Sounds of
hesitation 73 Musical opening 74 Family group 75 Tarzan type
79 Little bits
80 Rival of Tonya 81 Devotion to
Mammon, biblically 83 Come out of one’s
shell
84 Toy dog’s barks 86 Draws back 87 Philatelist’s buys 95 “What nerve!” 97 Dye-making
compound 98 Insurance lizard 99 Old TV series with
a scuba-diving hero 100 Guy who’s often out 101 Pac-12’s Bruins 102 Go downhill fast 105 Saddam’s party 106 Between, in Brest 107 Some bra features 109 Curly-coated cats 110 That is, to Cicero 111 Jar Jar Binks’
planet
112 Card game for
three
114 “Let’s do it!”
116 Aggressively
promote
117 Singer McEntire 118 Latin “to be”
120 Devils org.
122 Lose power, as a
battery
123 Org. that makes
traffic stops?