LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

12/20/20

ACROSS

1 Broody genre

4 Bothersome sort

8 Writ word

14 “Yeah, right!”

18 Traveler’s app that can use

crowdsourced data

20 Creep (along)

21 “Little Miss Dynamite” Lee 22 Gold rush animal

23 Question 1 (Baha Men,2000) 26 Gainsborough’s “The Blue

Boy” et al.

27 Flustered

28 Book of Mormon prophet 29 iPod and iPad

31 Ability of Marvel’s Professor

X

32 Use sparingly

34 Did an aria, say

36 Like some river bottoms 38 Question 2 (Third Eye Blind,

1997)

42 Smoothie berry

43 Like Cheerios

46 Shouldered

47 Crafty sort

48 With 79-Across, Question 3

(War, 1975)

50 Hall of Famer Reese

52 Get behind something,

maybe

53 Golf club part

54 Goldberg who drew complex

“machines”

55 Petrol measures

56 Buenos __

57 Bobby on ice

58 Romanov title

59 End of a ball game? 60 “Despicable Me” orphan 61 Question 4 (Jagged Edge

featuring Nelly, 2001) 65 Thunders

67 Assistant

68 Electrical units

69 __ es Salaam

72 Housing choice

73 Sign of spring

75 Pod contents

76 Legal org.

77 Activity centers 78 Temptation for a gambler 79 See 48-Across

81 In the past

82 “Pearly Shells” singer

83 Ish

84 Victoria’s Secret spec 85 Question 5 (Justin Bieber,

2015)

89 Contests that take seconds? 90 Lassos 91 “The Communist Manifesto” co-author 94 “O, __ fortune’s fool!”: Romeo 95 Beatnik

address 97 Little bit 98 Noble

realm 101 Et __ 102 Question 6 (Linda Ronstadt, 1975) 107 Philosopher Descartes 108 Chief 109 Zipped

through 110 “Biggest Little City in the World” 111 Brewery

units 112 Walked

proudly 113 What many players shoot for 114 Common doo-wop solo

instrument

DOWN

1 “Ick”

2 Half a menu fish 3 Stratospheric shield

4 Brad of “12 Monkeys” 5 Formal “Door’s open” 6 Unstressed vowel sound 7 Not just any

8 Netflix competitor

9 Gases in some bulbs 10 Porgy’s beloved

11 Musician Brian 12 Ghanian-born soccer great 13 Got stood up at the café, say 14 Words while checking one’s

calendar

15 Jack London classic, with

“To”

16 Fashion monthly

17 Hardy heroine

19 Springy

24 Spot

25 Two-sport Sanders 30 Bread in a skillet

33 You, biblically

34 Vermont ski resort 35 Scary beasts

36 Handled

37 Blood of the Greek gods 39 Madrid’s peninsula 40 Portends

41 Subjects of split

decisions? 43 Disagreeable necessities 44 Being litigated

45 Poetic contraction 49 Prefix with pod or scope 50 Accumulated

51 Military camps 52 Crossword title, often 55 “Interpreter of Maladies”

Pulitzer author Jhumpa __ 56 Tennis legend Andre 60 Language or people of the

central Andes

61 Rolls of money 62 “Amélie” star Audrey 63 Rodeo competitor 64 Lifting, maybe

65 Golfer’s “tall stuff” 66 Orientation procedure 69 Steps on the floor? 70 Singer Paula

71 Talks hoarsely

72 Wad of tobacco

73 Skater Harding 74 Dumas’Count de la Fère 78 Nocturnal hunters 79 Radius, for one 80 Galápagos Islands’ country 82 Time for action

83 Katey of “Sons of Anarchy” 86 Spruces (up)

87 Asked for a tuna treat,

maybe

88 Whole

89 Pickle flavoring

92 High-end camera

93 Cavalry blade

95 Like grim humor 96 Sheltered, at sea

97 Chinese leader?

99 Chianti and Bordeaux 100Actress Suvari

103 Worked (up)

104 Canal site

105 Cozy cat seat

106 Publish identifying material

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