The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- By MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Chunk

5 Spill stopper 8 Beetle in Egyptian hieroglyph­s 14 Old Eurasian

rulers

19 Many a restaurant website page 20 Addr. line

ending 21 Brother of Scar 22 Juice box

go-with 23 Censor of controvers­ial parts of “Messiah”? 26 Hold forth 27 “Top Chef” host

Lakshmi 28 Knish seller 29 __ Morris, “Saved by the Bell” protagonis­t 31 Award for good

plays

32 Bagel feature 34 Spots 36 Emergency

delivery method 38 Family tree

woman

42 Cause of restaurant complaints? 45 Intraoffic­e IT

system

46 Memo start 47 Get around 48 Convention­al

rubies?

53 Choir

accompanim­ent 57 20th-century

Argentine leader 58 Room in Clue 59 Original “Star

Trek” actor 62 Nice way to say

yes?

63 Stubborn animal 64 Family room 65 Group email

function

67 A, in Aachen 69 Sign of a cat

burglar? 74 Shoppe modifier 75 Brand mentioned in the Beatles’ “Come Together”

77 Golf club part 78 “I pity the fool”

speaker

79 Word that’s a homophone of its first letter 80 Willing subjects 82 Melodious 85 BILLY bookcase

sellers

88 Big dipper 90 What people and leopards have in common? 93 Gallery event 96 __ top 97 Kinshasa’s

country, briefly 98 Stallone hero putting more film in his camera? 102 Research

staples

104 Sister of Laertes 105 Like yellow

bananas

107 Look for gifts,

say

108 Green and white 109 Almost never 112 Greenish-blue 114 Allow to fluctuate, as a currency

117 Type of navel 119 Enjoy the track

meet?

123 Can’t live without 124 Bible book read

during Purim 125 Hardly walking

distance

126 Neutral shade

127 Doesn’t do much 128 What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly 129 “Go for it!” 130 Loafer, e.g.

DOWN

1 “This can’t be,”

in texts 2 Faithful spring? 3 Actress

Kendrick 4 Founder of an

Eastern religion 5 Euphoria 6 Providers of

liquid assets? 7 Out of juice 8 Cheese

alternativ­e? 9 Adorable ones 10 “100 Years... 100 Movies” org.

11 Heckle

12 On the briny 13 Chain of pubs with beer and video games 14 General on a

menu

15 Tot toter 16 Peninsula between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf 17 Sanction

18 Candy store buys 24 Personifie­d things in Pixar’s “Inside Out” 25 Sticky home? 30 Isn’t serious 33 Money in

Münster

35 It may be

cracked 37 Prepare for new planting, as a garden 38 Zero-star fare 39 Not seen often 40 Spellbound 41 On deck 43 Upbeat melody 44 “Master of None” co-creator Aziz __

49 Book after Daniel 50 Dame Dench 51 First place 52 Musical Lynn

contempora­ry 54 Commits a

hoops violation 55 “__ Lang Syne” 56 River to the

Mediterran­ean 60 “The Masked Singer” panelist Jeong

61 Able, facetiousl­y 66 Radiohead lead singer/ songwriter Thom

67 Subj. including the study of extinction­s 68 Field of Dreams

setting 69 Nemesis, e.g. 70 Late philanthro­pist Broad

71 Like tadpoles 72 Combine

73 A.G. under

Clinton

76 “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Hines 78 Biscuit whose name describes its shape

81 Part for one 83 Men’s grooming

brand 84 Exams for future

attys. 86 Decent-sized lot 87 Brief periods 89 Summer cabin

site

91 Sport

92 Racing the

deadline 94 Chamber music

work

95 Spirited events?

98 Corkscrew pasta 99 Warmed up the

crowd

100 French fashion

house

101 Agitated state 102 Like Beethoven,

late in life 103 Pie fruit

106 Pie fruit

110 Ones getting a

lot of props? 111 “At Last” singer

James

113 Split

115 A pop

116 Halal cart offering 118 Supergirl symbol 120 Greek X

121 Tolstoy title word 122 Refuse to settle

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