Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword

ACROSS

1 Playground game

with hoops

6 Blobby sci-fi villain 11 Biker’s protective

wear

19 In the know 20 Fitness motto starter 21 Removes faded flowers from

22 Fit

24 Brand with a Jumpman logo

25 Regret

26 School near Windsor 27 Stiles of “Whose Line

Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a brainstorm

34 A, to Beethoven 36 Fair

37 Formal talk

39 Deer sir

43 Droid from Naboo,

familiarly

46 Volume unit

48 Go inside

50 Long, long tail? 51 Start of a hopeful

chant

55 Tower engineer 57 Simone’s state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be

62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed

66 Like some fried food 68 Letters on a bathroom tube 69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org. 75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet is

often demanded 78 Cut of the loot 81 River past Logroño 84 It’s raised at a circus 85 Obligation

86 Many surfers 88 Ignore mistakes, say 92 Letters on a GI’s

letters

93 Absorb, as a spill 95 Twitter rampage 96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first

V8 ingredient 99 Yawning cause

101 Place to make a rial

deal

103 Some tributes

105 Disney theme park 111 Part of many a plot 113 Bristol bye-bye

115 Bit of politeness from

a hat-tipper

116 That guy, to Guy

117 Subject of many a

watch

119 Family film feature 123 Enthusiastic to a fault 124 Elicit a chuckle

125 A detective may act

on one

126 Spoofs

127 Minibike kin

128 __ music

DOWN

1 Clues for DNA analysis

2 Accept the blame 3 Wild party

4 “No seats” sign

5 Job listing abbr. 6 “Precisely like this” 7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin 9 Marcel Marceau

clown persona 10 Snacked

11 Princess with cinnamon-bun locks 12 Not kidding 13 Asleep in Eng. class? 14 Cause of sticker

shock at the florist? 15 They may be unsung 16 “CSI” actor George 17 Old food label figs. 18 I-9 ID

21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g.

23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div. 30 Suspects 31 Jordanian queen

dowager

32 José’s hand

33 A light bulb may

symbolize one 35 “It’s clear now” , s 38 Multi-lingual Irish

singer

40 First golfing U.S.

president 41 Pulitzer-winning

author James

42 __ standard

43 Bowl, say

44 Was highly regarded 45 Formal wear item 46 1983 Indy 500 champ

Tom

47 Fancy moldings 49 Throw very hard 52 Berkshire racecourse 53 Deadlocked 54 Alleged creation of

Buffalo’s Anchor Bar 56 Wray of “King Kong” 60 Herd mentality output?

64 Golfer’s gouge 65 Pasta restaurant

closing?

67 RPI and NIH 69 Cards, for short 70 Tiberius’ tongue 71 Blessed __

72 Casual Friday fabric 73 Musical workout, at

times

74 Singer’s perfect

pitch, say

75 “... chips-down” link 77 “Ciao”

78 Swedish auto 79 Bit of optimism 80 Lotion additive 82 Fuzzy memory 83 One taking a class

over

87 Juice with a lizard

logo

89 Picard’s counselor 90 Jon of “Mad Men” 91 Checkout action 94 Stamps

98 Figure with a cape 100 __ kit: Ancestry.com

item

101 Signed off on

102 Speechless player 104 Like morning fields 106 Stimulate

Answer Above 107 Memory miscue

108 Pass-rushing group,

briefly

109 Prevention amount 110 Strength

111 Inventing middle

name

112 Card holder, maybe 114 Pub mugfuls

117 Jazzy genre

118 Yokohama yes

119 Omelet filler

120 70-Down trio opener 121 Bright students’ org. 122 “How obvious”