LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Only astronaut to fly in the
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs
8 Sushi order
11 Short blue person?
14 Exile of 1979
18 Small bits of color
19 Easter lead-in
20 “Xanadu” rock gp.
21 Aqua __: U.K. mineral water
brand
22 Place for reading recipes? 24 Fragrant tea-flavoring
shrubs
26 Quakers in forests? 27 Emailed
28 Ink on a billionaire?
29 Extreme disorder 30 Through
31 Madrid mama bear
33 “The Bald Soprano”
playwright
34 City center street
performer?
38 Flash __
39 Third-party accounts 43 Provide with the latest 44 Green stone
45 Where one trying to score
may be out
46 U.S. Army medal
48 Classic Pontiac
49 __ pool
50 Like some stockings 51 Congers
53 React to a sprint
55 A montage of them was presented at the 2006 Oscars
56 Native Alaskans
58 Fencing moves
61 Nothing special
62 Bit of carelessness at
cocktail hour?
64 Long stretches
66 They’re usually unbeatable 68 Accustoms (to)
69 Storied building material 70 Fit
71 Feds under Ness
72 Current amount
73 Mail ctrs.
75 Stadium cheer
78 Offbeat
79 Eyed impolitely, with “at” 80 Bath buggy
81 Not at all light
83 Corn syrup component
84 Joplin’s “Maple Leaf __” 85 Postal mishap? 89 Legislative group, e.g. 91 Backing-up key 92 Bit in a
horse’s mouth 93 Cleaning tools, for short 97 Starter for a noncompetitive race? 99 Deli stock 101 Formed with the tip of the tongue, like the letter L 103 Property receivers, at law 104 Reality TV
believer? 106 Axes 107 KC-to-NYC
dir. 108 “The Ice Storm” director
Lee 109 Acted like 110 Most massive known dwarf planet 111 Rehab hurdle 112 Screening org.
113 Western movie threat
DOWN
1 Imagine, colloquially 2 Horse-and-buggy ride
sounds
3 Cod relatives
4 Library vol. ID
5 Letters after pis
6 1906 Runabout, e.g.
7 Shows hospitality toward, as
a visitor
8 Before long, to Shakespeare 9 Bird named for its cry 10 Annoy
11 “This seems familiar” word 12 Jubilance
13 University of Idaho city 14 Malice
15 Spider that stalks its prey 16 Opening number?
17 Surely is
18 Con job
23 Bar specification
25 “Death in Venice” author 28 Aspect 30 Bugs with brakes 32 Wrapped in a blanket, say 34 Mosque toppers
35 Due
36 Block off
37 Award-winning Mark Tatulli
comic strip
39 Relaxes
40 Apply, as a brake
41 Lawn chair
42 Hanks sobriquet for films
like “You’ve Got Mail”? 44 Fashionista dog?
46 Knish sellers
47 Ooze
49 Oxlike antelope
52 Stretch
53 Letters before chi 54 Duchamp contemporary 56 “What about me?!” 57 Layered Italian dessert 58 General direction 59 Bullfight figure
60 Traps
62 Long-running forensic
series
63 First name in an 1857 case 65 Activist Greta Thunberg,
e.g. 67 Hosp. units
69 Suspect
72 End of a ball game?
73 Like table salt 74 Composer of solo violin
études
75 “Vive le __!”
76 Karen of “Starman” 77 Fashion lines 80 Introduction
81 Portraitist John Singer __ 82 Long-vowel symbols 83 Tatami, e.g.
85 Leave speechless 86 “Thanks, it’s already done” 87 “Stay” singer Lisa seen in
GEICO ads
88 “Get a move on!”
90 Salad green
93 Like some popular videos 94 Perceptive
95 Pole tossed by a Scot 96 Downhill traveler 98 Applications
100 Discipline with stretches 101 Lie next to
102 Hide
104 Cricket club
105 Thurman of “Pulp Fiction”