L.A CROSSWORD
“WHY NOT?”
ACROSS
1 Writers
5 Bearlike marsupial 10 Super-impressed 14 Numerical suffix for “about”
17 Fast Northeast train
19 Severe distress 20 Greater
21 Usually wellcompensated leader
22 Animated image of Santa repeatedly going down the chimney?
24 Adorn
26 Owie spot, maybe 27 Burdens 29 Windshield sticker
30 Cashew family shrubs
33 Garage service 34 Extract with a solvent
35 Crew member 38 Robert who sang the role of Figaro 46 times at the Met
41 Fruity neckwear? 43 Votes at a beer convention? 45 Smaller
46 Socially challenged one, often
47 Rural skyline standouts 48 Hereditary 50 Japanese pond fish 52 Beach volleyball team
53 Woman’s name that means “pleasure” in Hebrew 55 Country sound 58 Sam or Wiggily 62 Cruller coating 64 Words before a view
66 Muffin grain
67 First catch the fly, then eat the fly? 71 Indication of growing impatience? 73 Valentine card hugs
74 Popular school cafeteria item 76 Immerse (in), as maple syrup
77 Togo neighbor 79 Sharpening tool 80 Fare-well link 82 Maker of Aspire laptops
85 “Sorry, lad”
87 How Sitka, Alaska, ranks as the largest U.S. city 89 Wedding party 90 Trojan War god 93 Small-time British crook
96 Social newcomer who won’t go away?
99 Basic banking rule?
101 Plague
102 USCG officer 103 Courage 104 __ even footing 106 __ network 108 Meaningless
109 BP, pulse, etc. 112 Causes of traffic jams ... or ways to avoid them
116 The “there” in “Don’t go there” 118 Subjecting to a basic haunting strategy?
121 Heart test letters 122 Hunger remedy wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette
123 Means
124 Hard work
125 Poor grade 126 Is indebted to 127 Principle
128 Goes off
DOWN
1 Treaty
2 Repetitive sound 3 Emperor adopted by Claudius 4 Buttonholes, e.g. 5 Ukulele wood 6 MD workplaces 7 Ship protected by Hera
8 Cut of meat
9 Really bad
10 Tiny shape-shifters 11 Goes downhill 12 North end?
13 Numb
14 Rock at the bar? 15 Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger 16 Cop’s casebreaking tip, perhaps
18 Supposes 19 Campaign nastiness
23 Kitchen convenience
25 Skin pigment 28 Renter’s rental 31 1993 Aerosmith hit that begins “There was a time / When I was so broken-hearted” 32 Tuscany city 35 Recipe meas. 36 Tenor’s moment 37 Faith
39 PC-to-PC system 40 Future attys.’ exams
42 Set as a price 44 __ Cup 49 Unexpected story ending
51 Improve upon 53 __-Nehemiah: Hebrew Bible book 54 Coll. units
56 Japanese tech company 57 Sparkling rock
59 Happen at the same time
60 Fall behind
61 Addis Ababa’s land: Abbr. 63 Company named for a volcano 64 Playwright Chekhov
65 About, on memos 67 Weep
68 “The Purloined Letter” writer 69 Allow
70 Reach
72 Bee team 75 Iridescent gems 78 How some things are set
80 Mortise joiner 81 Dutch city, with “The”
83 Eve’s first home 84 Civil War fighters 86 Paul Anka’s
“__ Beso” 88 Mythical elephant carrier
89 Inspiring acts? 90 Counseled
91 Lost Colony’s island
92 Blow up
94 Incite
95 Sets a match to 97 Plod 98 White-plumed wader
100 Painting on wet plaster
105 Annoy constantly 107 “Almost
Like Being in Love” composer Frederick 110 Happening right now
111 Pet reindeer in “Frozen”
113 Lyft competitor 114 Lion’s warning 115 They’re often smashed
117 Friendly dog’s offering
119 Like Bach’s French Suite No. 6 120 Superfan