LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
“Change the Subject” by Susan Gelfand & Katie Hale
ACROSS
1 Word with corn or
matzo
5 Fill-in at an office 9 Truly hopeless
15 Org. with badges 18 Director Preminger 19 Thrown in
21 “Clever you”
22 Each and every
23 Tip from a history teacher about how to study WWII? 26 __ card: smartphone
need
27 Intimate
28 Went fast
29 Radio City Music Hall
style
31 Unreturned tennis
serve
32 Grover’s predecessor 35 __ the pot
37 “On a ... ” poems 38 Tip from an English teacher about the editing process? 42 “__ there, done that” 44 Rapper Dr. __
45 Dines
46 3-Down novelist
McEwan
47 Desilu co-founder 49 Actress Ward 52 Observed Ramadan,
say
55 Question of identity 58 Make a difference 60 Tip from a gym teacher about how to win at tug-ofwar?
63 Get more out of 65 Nonprofit URL
ender
66 Make money
67 Tiny organism 71 Atlanta pitcher Kirby 74 Sandal feature 76 Botanical balm 77 Hosp. areas 79 Charlie Parker’s
instrument
81 Tip from an astronomy teacher about how to set up telescopes? 85 Some flower girl
candidates 90 “Stay With Me”
singer Smith 91 Invisible
92 Great flood
protagonist 94 Baseball deal 95 Western treaty gp. 97 Stuck in __
99 MMA calls
101 Big-screen format 102 Tip from an accounting teacher about calculating profits and losses? 109 Pie crust ingredient 110 “Anything __?”
111 Prepare for a
comeback tour
112 Reproductive cells
115 Google oneself,
perhaps
117 Downright nasty
118 Caged copycat
120 Successful show
letters
121 Tip from a math teacher about working with squares and cubes? 126 Shorten, as a skirt 127 Venezia’s land
128 Skin soother
129 Sheltered from the
wind
130 Thumbs-up
131 Former Seattle team,
familiarly
132 Tide type
133 Colorado’s __ Verde
National Park
DOWN
1 Chocolaty coffee 2 Moral code
3 Booker Prizeshortlisted novel made into a film starring Keira Knightley
4 Booty
5 Grew molars, say 6 Prefix with thermic 7 Any of the Rockies:
Abbr.
8 Magic word
9 Little bit
10 Droid
11 Stick (out) 12 Log-shaped pastry 13 Shirley Temple
garnish
14 Acid __
15 Question of evidence 16 Deli device
17 Just about 20 Colorado ski spot 24 Burlap bag
25 Arctic hazards 30 Qatar’s capital 33 Hearing things 34 Struggling to stay
awake
35 Apostle of Ireland, for
short
36 Throw at
39 Med school subj. 40 Islamic mystic
41 Fries or slaw 42 “Kapow!”
43 Notable period
48 Zip
50 Girl who cannot be trusted to hold the football for Charlie Brown
51 Pasta __ Norma 53 Pamplona bulls 54 Omelet skillet 56 Supersized sandwich 57 Normandy river 59 Energized anew 61 Unleash upon 62 Number of Grammy Awards won by Dolly Parton
64 Classic mint brand 67 Bleating sounds 68 Pelvic bones
69 Dorm areas for
hanging out
70 NBA official 72 Dynamism
73 H-Town pro 75 Parkway sign
78 Wool clippers 80 Resident of Japan’s
third largest city 82 Unseat
83 Spooky
84 Comfy and cozy 86 Prince in “The Little
Mermaid”
87 Small part for a big
name, often 88 Writer LeShan 89 Census datum 93 Hindu spring festival 96 Goes on to say 98 Number of Powerpuff
Girls
100 Course for collegebound HS students 102 Plump
103 “Amen to that!”
104 Contract adverb
105 “The Nightmare Before Christmas” composer Danny
106 Doesn’t use scissors 107 Legendary Paul
108 Close by
113 Casts a ballot
114 On a cruise
116 “Exodus” novelist
Leon
117 Many execs
119 Travel without a
destination
122 Pharmaceutical
giant __ Lilly
123 MC’s need
124 World Cup cheer
125 Cavaliers sch.