L.A. TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLES
Across
1 Frozen snack
7 Ford failure
12 Promising Hold ‘em holding
19 Painting, e.g.
21 Slip
22 ‘30s-’40s period
23 Quadrennial victory determinant
25 Tinkered with like a tailor
26 Prepares to fire
27 Mario Bros. console
28 Mexican month
30 Indian wrap
31 Biopic about Charles
32 Hidden stockpile
34 Up for __
36 Champs-élysées feature
39 Solar panel components
43 Dance studio fixture
46 Smart
47 Light bulb generator?
48 Calendar pgs.
49 Casual “Same here”
52 Ingenuous
55 Capital NE of Buffalo
57 Source of narrowly focused thinking
61 Slightly drunk
62 Nabisco offering
63 Earth
64 Tokyo, long ago
65 Clickable image
67 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, __ Bouvier
68 Dennis, e.g.
70 Like vision dimmed from fatigue
72 Total
75 The Arno runs through it
76 Kitchenware brand
78 Man, for example
79 “Hmm ... doubt it”
80 Baffled
83 Virgil’s optimistic sentiment
87 One placed near a gutter
89 Surrendered
90 Made one’s case
91 Surfer’s destination?
92 Small salamander
94 Troubles
97 Ways to lose 98 Wrap up
104 Sushi go-with
105 Scents
106 Coagulates
107 Lucrative, contractually
110 Help badly?
113 Dealt with
115 Alberta speed meas.
116 Mötley __
117 Yolk’s counterpart
120 Sci-fi creatures who arranged each set of circled letters?
123 Litter, say
124 Spud
125 Show disdain for
126 Over the moon, so to speak
127 Shorthand pro
128 Emmy-winning “Lou Grant” actress Linda
Down
1 “What concerns me is ...“
2 Eyelashes
3 Hamilton, to Burr
4 Muscle Beach display
5 Feedbag morsel
6 “Now!”
7 Building extension
8 Humor columnist Barry
9 Boston cream pie component
10 Non-acidic vitamin brand
11 Eye lustfully
12 Pan Am rival
13 Rowling’s
Hedwig and Lewis’ Glimfeather
14 Hummus go-with
15 He played James in the four films before Daniel
16 Satellite imaging product
17 Wrath
18 “Tubular!”
20 Pay for
24 NBA part: Abbr.
29 “Nineteen Eighty-four” foe of Winston and Julia
32 Seashore souvenir
33 Bit of a “Beavis and Butt-head” chuckle
35 Grauman of Chinese Theatre fame
37 Proceeds smoothly
38 Many an op-ed piece
39 Ragú rival
40 “The Mod Squad” role
41 Co. bigwig
42 Ball of yarn, perhaps
43 Yellowstone sight
44 Burning
45 “Chicago” actress
Zellweger
50 Votes for
51 Without a key
53 Website with film profiles
54 “The Four Seasons” solo instrument
56 What pewter is, mostly
58 Narrow inlet
59 Breakfast area
60 Broadband predecessor
66 Angler’s basket
68 Providing amplification for, as a speaker
69 Crossed (out)
71 Attorney’s letters
72 “Thrown” criticism
73 Not rented
74 Chocolatier’s array
75 Angel dust, initially
77 New England nickname
79 Bolt on the track
80 Hard pencils to sharpen
81 __ firma
82 Far from charming
84 White and black pawns, e.g.
85 Lyrical
86 Second chances
88 Trawler’s tool
93 Court
95 Inc. cousin
96 Grouchy moods
99 Crab in space
100 Progresses with ease
101 “And if I don’t?”
102 Last year’s frosh
103 Start of a view
107 Bars on necks
108 Saintly glows
109 Short-tempered
111 Outback runners
112 French crown?
114 Welcoming sign
116 Key used in combinations
117 Instagram, e.g.
118 Online outburst
119 Homer’s TV neighbor
121 Ranch extension?
122 The Red Baron, to Snoopy