Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword
Metamorphosis
ACROSS
1 Frozen snack
7 Ford failure 12 Promising Hold ’em
holding
19 Painting, e.g.
21 Slip
22 ’30s-’40s period 23 Quadrennial victory
determinant 25 Tinkered with like a
tailor
26 Prepares to fire 27 Mario Bros. console 28 Mexican month 30 Indian wrap
31 Biopic about Charles 32 Hidden stockpile 34 Up for __ 36 Champs-Élysées
feature
39 Solar panel components
43 Dance studio fixture 46 Smart
47 Light bulb generator? 48 Calendar pgs. 49 Casual “Same here” 52 Ingenuous
55 Capital NE of Buffalo 57 Source of narrowly
focused thinking 61 Slightly drunk 62 Nabisco offering 63 Earth
64 Tokyo, long ago 65 Clickable image 67 Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, __ Bouvier 68 Dennis, e.g.
70 Like vision dimmed
from fatigue
72 Total
75 The Arno runs
through it 76 Kitchenware brand 78 Man, for example 79 “Hmm ... doubt it” 80 Baffled
83 Virgil’s optimistic
sentiment
87 One placed near a
gutter
89 Surrendered
90 Made one’s case 91 Surfer’s destination? 92 Small salamander 94 Troubles
97 Ways to lose
98 Wrap up
104 Sushi go-with
105 Scents
106 Coagulates
107 Lucrative, contractually
110 Help badly?
113 Dealt with
115 Alberta speed meas. 116 Mötley __
117 Yolk’s counterpart 120 Sci-fi creatures who arranged each set of circled letters?
123 Litter, say
124 Spud
125 Show disdain for
126 Over the moon, so to
speak
127 Shorthand pro
128 Emmy-winning “Lou
Grant” actress Linda
DOWN
1 “What concerns me
is ... ”
2 Eyelashes
3 Hamilton, to Burr 4 Muscle Beach display 5 Feedbag morsel 6 “Now!”
7 Building extension 8 Humor columnist
Barry
9 Boston cream pie
component 10 Non-acidic vitamin
brand
11 Eye lustfully
12 Pan Am rival 13 Rowling’s Hedwig and Lewis’ Glim feather
14 Hummus go-with 15 He played James in the four films before Daniel
16 Satellite imaging
product
17 Wrath
18 “Tubular!”
20 Pay for
24 NBA part: Abbr. 29 “Nineteen Eighty Four” foe of Winston and Julia
32 Seashore souvenir 33 Bit of a “Beavis and
Butt-Head” chuckle 35 Grauman of Chinese
Theatre fame 37 Proceeds smoothly 38 Many an op-ed piece 39 Ragú rival
40 “The Mod Squad”
role
41 Co. bigwig
42 Ball of yarn, perhaps 43 Yellowstone sight 44 Burning
45 “Chicago” actress
Zellweger
50 Votes for
51 Without a key 53 Website with film
profiles 54 “The Four Seasons”
solo instrument 56 What pewter is,
mostly
58 Narrow inlet 59 Breakfast area 60 Broadband predecessor
66 Angler’s basket 68 Providing amplification for, as a speaker 69 Crossed (out) 71 Attorney’s letters 72 “Thrown” criticism 73 Not rented 74 Chocolatier’s array 75 Angel dust, initially 77 New England nickname
79 Bolt on the track 80 Hard pencils to
sharpen
81 __ firma
82 Far from charming 84 White and black
pawns, e.g.
85 Lyrical
86 Second chances 88 Trawler’s tool 93 Court
95 Inc. cousin 96 Grouchy moods 99 Crab in space
100 Progresses with ease 101 “And if I don’t?”
102 Last year’s frosh
103 Start of a view
107 Bars on necks
108 Saintly glows
109 Short-tempered
111 Outback runners
112 French crown?
114 Welcoming sign
116 Key used in combinations
117 Instagram, e.g.
118 Online outburst
119 Homer’s TV neighbor 121 Ranch extension? 122 The Red Baron, to
Snoopy