BESTSELLERS SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
| BY ED SESSA, EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “Sparring Partners” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
2. “Tom Clancy: Zero Hour” by Don Bentley (Putnam)
3. “Nightwork” by Nora Roberts
(St. Martin’s)
4. “Meant to Be” by Emily Giffin (Ballantine)
5. “The Omega Factor” by Steve Berry (Grand Central)
6. “Run, Rose, Run” by Parton/ Patterson (Little, Brown)
7. “22 Seconds” by Patterson/Paetro (Little, Brown)
8. “Counterfeit” by Kirstin Chen (Morrow)
9. “Dream Town” by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
10. “Nightcrawling” by Leila Mottley
(Knopf)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “James Patterson” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
2. “The Power of One More” by Ed Mylett (Wiley)
3. “Scars and Stripes” by Kennedy/Palmisciano (Atria) 4. “Killing the Killers” by O’Reilly/ Dugard (St. Martin’s)
ACROSS
1 Fish tacos fish, familiarly 5 Department store founder depicted in “Miracle on 34th Street” 11 __ de fideo: Mexican
noodle soup
15 Top
19 Comparison words 20 “Oh, cry me a river” 21 Neighbor
22 Ski area in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains 23 Part-time job for teenage waterfowl? 25 Hard on the eyes 27 Egyptian goddess 28 Extravagant and elaborate way of going around slowpokes? 30 “Sadly ... ”
32 “__ be an honor!” 35 Appearance 36 Devoutness 37 Breather in the ballroom?
40 New Year’s __
42 Quirky
43 Bless with oil
44 Glee found on horseback?
50 Spring
52 “Nashville” actress Blakley
53 Gives a little
54 “My Kind of Country” singer McEntire
55 Big name in baby food 57 Middle Alou brother 58 Heavy __
59 Mass book
61 Thus far
62 Retort from a self-appointed authority 63 Chap
64 First-rate dog shelter? 68 Water under le pont 69 “Gotcha”
71 Comedy duo Garfunkel and __
72 Gold units
74 Greek god of the underworld
75 Not straight 76 Celebrated, as a holiday
78 Landed
79 Cooking stove 80 Tropical veranda 81 Lairs
85 Extremely blah coif? 87 Temperature unit 88 Calendario square 89 Singer Carly __ Jepsen 90 Cattle that may tip over?
93 Out of whack
97 Poet Silverstein 99 Tavern quaff
100 Some charity runs 101 “Life’s too short for
dull razors,” e.g.?
105 Effortlessness 106 Subject of PETA’s traveling exhibit “Without Consent” 107 Queue for lottery
tickets?
113 North Carolina
campus
114 Dorky sort
115 New version of an old
film
116 Jessica of “L.A.’s
Finest”
117 Traps in an attic? 118 Change for a five 119 “The Right Stuff”
figure
120 Deck chair piece
DOWN
5. “Us” by Terrence Real (Rodale)
6. “Happy-Go-Lucky” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
7. “Saving Nine” by Mike Lee (Center Street)
8. “Atlas of the Heart” by Brené Brown (Random House)
9. “Finding Me” by Viola Davis (HarperOne)
10. “Here’s the Deal”
by Kellyanne Conway (Threshold)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “Complications” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
2. “Better Off Dead” by Child/Child (Dell)
3. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)
4. “No Way Out” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
5. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Grand Central)
6. “When the Shooting Starts” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
7. “Summer Shadows” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s)
8. “Autopsy” by Patricia Cornwell (Morrow)
9. “Taylor Callahan, Circuit Rider” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
10. “Taming a Texan” by Diana Palmer
(Harlequin) 1 Fuming
2 Sun Devils sch. 3 Southwest estate 4 Squid organ
5 Grand slam quartet, briefly
6 In great demand 7 Witticism
8 Tuna in poke bowls 9 NCAA div.
10 Surface for shavasana 11 Apple product? 12 Maternity ward doc 13 Juicer refuse
14 “Right Back __”: Spice
Girls song
15 Deep opera voices 16 “McFarland, USA”
actress Fisher
17 Stretch on the job 18 Like lemonade
24 iPad speaker
26 Resort town on Colorado’s Roaring Fork River
29 Suffix with neat or beat 30 Pop star
31 Gradually vanish 32 Lowly
33 Chophouse choice 34 Less damp
38 Talk through the whole movie?
39 WSW opposite
40 Mini vortex
41 Meas. reduced by fog 44 Pave anew 45 Halved
46 Earl __ tea 47 Globetrotting group 48 Former White House quartet
49 New Haven sch.
51 Pts. of a book 53 Forehead-covering hair 56 Tricky road curves 57 Rupees and rubles 58 102-Down’s mother 59 Hawaiian “thank you” 60 Admission of guilt 61 Magazine name
62 Not straight
63 “Mean Girls” star Lindsay
65 Drinks for the house 66 Key __
67 Kyiv’s country 70 Writer/actor Rogen 73 Throw in
75 Zoo enclosure 76 Valletta’s island 77 Block that often falls on Wile E. Coyote 79 Genetic material
80 “__ Misérables” 82 “Modern Family” co-star
83 Little cut
84 Nordstrom rival 86 Conservationist Bindi 87 Season wood, in a way 90 Tropical garland 91 Male deer
92 Some electric cars 93 Heaps
94 Thin-layered rock 95 Shish __
96 Chris who plays Captain America
97 Extra
98 Wrestling moves 102 58-Down’s son 103 FBI guys
104 Beech or peach 105 Dept. formed after
the 1977 oil crisis 108 Reddit Q&A session 109 Droll sort
110 “The Mindy Project”
actor Barinholtz 111 Org. with Thunder
and Heat
112 Gulp down