L.A. TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLES
Across
1 Take pieces from? 7 Applaud
11 Practice fighting 15 Likely to evoke an “Eww!”
19 Big fan
20 Sword handle 21 Andrew Jackson carried one with a sword in it
22 Not just eat
23 Marie Curie has two of them
24 Tiny bit
25 Juan’s “yesterday” 26 Grandson of Eve 27 Spirited style 28 Disney film set in Polynesia 30 Amphetamines, e.g.
32 Petit four purveyor
35 West Coast ZIP starter
36 Wore (away) 37 Econ. indicator 39 Alcohol type 40 Braided Jewish bread
42 Julia Louisdreyfus’ eleven 44 Deutsche darling
46 Lab dish eponym
47 It was inspired by Sunshine Hydrox cookies
48 Not quite circular 49 Dangerous snake 51 Hebrew winter month 53 Finishes
56 Ill will
59 Something you don’t see everyday
61 Derby favorite, say 63 Black-and-white 65 Get some rays 66 Neighbor of Mex. 67 Rehab symptoms, briefly
70 Where Tennyson’s “light brigade” charged 71 Noble Brit
73 Cloud site
74 Very long time 75 Gift-wrapping aid 76 Asset in a crisis 79 Trite saying 81 Happened to
82 Use just one water ski 86 Hamlet’s first option
87 Letter abbr.
89 1986 U.S.
Open champ Raymond __
91 Over with
92 Dupes
94 Organic fertilizer 96 Domestic platforms
99 Not at all glossy 101 Actor Douglas and quarterback Cousins
102 Snowboarder
White
103 Cigar discard
104 Latin lover’s
assertion 105 Horse color
107 Playground game with a rope and a pole
110 Wallabies and wombats
113 Bread source
114 Not much
117 Soft cheese
118 Notice
119 Sushi seaweed 120 Ready to play
122 Overagain
123 Silhouetted road
sign animal
124 Soon, long ago 125 Succumbsto
static
126 Impertinence
127 Span. miss
128 Warp
129 Becomesaware
of
Down
1 Jutland native 2 False god 3 Tearjerker’s quality?
4 Large venue 5 Brother, e.g.: Abbr.
6 Title assassin in a 2005 Pitt-jolie film
7 Mysterious foliage-sprouting proclivity?
8 Model train giant 9 Vow locale
10 Org. concerned with students 11 Vocal improv 12 Remit with goatskin? 13 Persistent weakness
14 Show again 15 Notion
16 Vehicle for transporting bark spice?
17 Difficult to solve 18 Words of assent 29 Rapper Ice Cube’s first name 30 Senator’s place 31 Lascivious look 33 Gumshoe 34 Spanish airline 37 Seize, slangily
38 Met celebrity 41 Donkey song? 43 Come across 45 Radar screen spot
46 Sheet material 47 Greek victim of the Furies
50 Glen cousin 52 Shame
54 Writing __
55 Legal suspension 57 Desert plants 58 Online stock transactions 60 Moving memoir subject?
62 Nordic toast
64 Get ready to eat? 65 Western hero noted for his thoughtfulness? 67 Card balance, say 68 Matador’s opponent
69 Tales of social climbers?
72 Move, in some ads 77 Gush
78 Pops, to baby 80 Essence 81 Short-term memory? 83 Farmers market baked goods? 84 Change for a five
85 Netting 88 Ceramic dog, maybe? 90 “The Wreck of the Mary __” 93 Quechua is one of its official languages 95 Trading places:
Abbr.
97 Text entries named for their traditional red color 98 Genetic letters
99 African snakes
100 Historic Nile excavation site
101 Roll or emperor 102 2000s Israeli
leader Ariel
106 Slanted
columns 108 Steak named for
its shape
109 Virgil’s language 111 Stitches up
112 Heavenly harp 115 Kansas-born
playwright
116 Hardy’s “Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”
119 Pick up
121 Phillies’ div.