Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword
ACROSS
1 Wretched
7 Mount Rainier gateway
13 Hoops statistic
19 Taste
20 In favor of Mideast
unity
21 Arty
22 The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __ 24 Right after this 25 Fall garden? 26 Riverbank residue
27 Parisian season 28 Vote of support 29 What Jill has that
Jack doesn’t? 30 Break
31 Stab
32 1956 title film monster
34 Smart
36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __ 41 LP’S 33 1/3 44 Browsing annoyances
45 Wordless agreement 46 Sugary ending
47 Reduce
48 Long
50 Shot __: competitive
event
51 Privileged people 53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __
57 False front
63 Get into
64 What a stationary orrery part may represent 65 Clarifying Latin
words
67 Grew dimmer 68 Sweetens, as yams
70 Iraqi currency 72 Modified for the
better
74 Private
75 Barely sufficient 77 Stroke that makes a
rally irrelevant 78 Surrealist Germanfrench painter 79 Gazes fixedly
81 The casual quarterback made an __ 86 Expand
88 Bossy utterance 89 African capital on the
30th parallel
90 “It is a __ told by an
idiot”: Macbeth
94 What chatty tongues
do?
95 Poke fun at
96 Mrs., in Madrid
98 Apply a new hue to
99 A navel ring is a
piercing one may __
105 It has pipes and keys 106 Source of some overhead footage
107 Apple operating
system
108 Hadrian’s defense
112 Follow (along) closely 113 “It totally happened!”
115 Memorable first
name in soccer
116 Small racer
117 Sailing
118 Indicating stress
120 The fast-learning police cadet had the
__
123 Most trifling e
124 Fail to take seriously
some
125 Red-skinned root __
126 Current events?
127 Soaked through
128 Demands and gets
DOWN
1 Following
2 Business end of an ax 3 “North and South” trilogy author John
__
4 Track contests
5 Bill’s partner
6 Confided in
7 Showing strain
8 One lining up for
food?
9 Took care of the food 10 Strong speaker
11 Be resourceful
12 Prez on a penny 13 Feeling it after a
workout
14 Lusters
15 Honorary title utterance 16 Picnic pitcherful 17 NBA’S Steph Curry,
frequently
18 Early photograph 20 Sea anemone, e.g.
23 Gives out
28 “__ of robins … ”:
Kilmer
33 Refrains from
35 The Eiger, for one 37 Secure, as a job or a
role
38 “Get __”: James
Brown biopic 39 Choose at the polls 40 Shipping hazard
41 Bread-making grain 42 Locket, for one 43 Singer/actress known as the “Queen of Pop”
49 Cause to become
the __ 50 Mae West’s “I used 68 Opposite of trans to be Snow White, 69 Hot temper but I drifted,” e.g. 70 Inane
51 Icelandic literary 71 Lowdown
work 73 “Give __ minute” 52 Sidelong glance 76 Often “old” eccentric 54 Consume 77 Big deal
55 Kitty 80 Like fireplace logs 56 Beethoven’s __ 82 Within
58 Response to the 83 Plant stem joint
sublime 84 Final Four org. 59 Largest Englishspeaking 85 Moriarty, to Holmes country 87 __ longlegs
60 Google operating 90 Cheat on one’s
system sweet, say
61 Cook, as much county 91 Freshened up, in a fair fare way
62 Announcer Hall 92 Slowpoke
66 Gauge on the dash 93 Often titled stretch
16 Picnic pitcherful 52 Sidelong glance sweet, say
95 Massaged 96 Excalibur, e.g.
97 Put back as it was 100 Not sensible
101 Pecorino __ cheese 102 __ Kingdom
103 Laughing
104 Its capital is Kigali 109 Gelatin garnish
110 “Not in the __”
111 Framework strips 114 Book after John
116 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle 119 Gift with an aloha 120 Brief afterthoughts
121 Metal source
122 Become more intense, as the moon
moon