The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

“PET FLICKS” By PAUL COULTER ACROSS

1 Like some

stressed text 7 Perfect pass 13 Imp

19 Rattler commonly used in pairs 20 University

staying power? 21 Mild, in Milan 22 Film with a feline

baseball ace? 24 Not on TV yet 25 Roy Rogers’

birth name 26 Ninja Turtles’

ally April __ 27 One end of the Chicago L’s Blue Line 29 Shattering

grenade, to a GI 30 Shunned the

paper clip 32 Biopic about Frank from “Men in Black”? 34 Scraps 38 Cookout glowers 40 Artist’s asset 41 Clicked ballot 42 __ Martin:

Bond’s car 44 AOL alternativ­e 45 Flier to Oslo 48 Comedy about

a lost mutt? 53 Sports channel that shows college games 55 High-five, e.g. 56 “Insecure” star

Rae

57 Not supporting 59 Mets’ slugger

Alonso 60 Catalog 62 Greek vacation

isle

65 Essential

67 Film about a composing pooch?

71 Not alfresco 74 Year, to Yves 75 Sampled

78 Deli order 79 Org. monitoring possible alien signals 81 Gillian’s Emmywinnin­g role on “The X-Files” 83 Settled

85 Small egg 87 Drama about organized disobedien­ce at obedience school?

92 Frying pan spray 93 Mix masters,

briefly? 95 Vols’ school 96 Golf caddie, e.g. 97 Help-wanted ad

abbr.

98 “Me too”

100 Maria __, the last House of Habsburg ruler 102 Film romance

starring Puss? 106 Like volcanic

rock

109 “By yesterday!” 110 Clock __

112 Long-legged

wader

113 Chops

117 Reeled off 119 Film in which Fido wins a place at the Round Table? 122 Unpaid debt 123 Pump part 124 Imitated

125 Flirts with 126 Rose to great

heights

127 Hen holders DOWN 1 Little devils 2 Detective, at

times 3 Affectedly

creative 4 Shoestring

5 “__ bin ein

Berliner”: JFK 6 Holly Golightly’s

creator

7 __ throat 8 Danger 9 Changes one’s

tone of voice 10 Québec street 11 With a bow, to Anne-Sophie Mutter 12 Beyond harmful 13 Goes back on

one’s word 14 Gasteyer of

“Mean Girls” 15 Put the kibosh

on

16 Wispy clouds 17 Shaking like __ 18 Pigeon’s perch 21 Trusted adviser 23 Some, in San

Salvador 28 Courses for coll.

credit 30 Load

31 Assure the

failure of 33 Since, in a

seasonal song 34 “Bill & __ Excellent Adventure” 35 Throat dangler 36 Beverage aisle options

37 It helps you get up

39 “__ objections?” 42 Horace’s “__

Poetica”

43 Last word of the most recent version of “America the Beautiful” 44 “The A-Team”

actor

45 Didn’t dillydally 46 One chip,

maybe

47 Sought damages 49 Personnel staff 50 O.T. book after

Neh.

51 Brit’s informal

eatery 52 One, on a one 54 Fan at the game 58 Clothes line 61 “Lookee here!” 62 “Anderson Cooper 360°” channel 63 Poetic tribute 64 Landmark ’70s

case anonym 66 Autobahn

hazard 68 Censor’s target 69 Together, in

Toulon 70 Eclectic

magazine 71 Chain with links 72 St. Petersburg’s

river 73 Originate, with

“up”

76 A-listers

77 Eats well 80 Theoretica­l

visitors 81 Cacophony 82 Landers of

letters

84 Banks of “America’s Got Talent” 86 Ancient Dead

Sea kingdom 88 Something to

chew

89 Yours, to Yvette 90 Kramer, to Jerry 91 Sun Devils’ rival 94 Angry

54-Downs 97 Catches sight of 98 Down

99 Ear malady 100 Captured 101 Take shelter,

with “down” 102 Fort Knox unit 103 Rhone tributary 104 Pelvic bones 105 Bounders 107 Author Zora __

Hurston

108 Went astray 111 “Horrors!” 113 Greeting from

Kermit

114 Star features 115 Put an edge on 116 Benchmarks:

Abbr.

118 __ kwon do 120 Spanish “that” 121 Cpl., e.g.

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