L.A CROSSWORD "I HAD A BAD DAY"
ACROSS
1 Swahili boss 6 Canasta combination 10 Cockatoo feature
15 Boring tools
19 Many a surfer 20 Others, in Latin 21 Vigor
22 Acquire, as an advantage 23 My crayon __
25 Pay television 26 Designated space 27 Four-wheeler, briefly
28 My ruler __
31 Step on it when you need to step on it
33 Carnival city 34 Applies henna to, say
35 Mink cousin
38 Sack lead-in 41 Mount north of Redding, California
46 Golf course rental 49 Blunted sword 51 Text sent with x’s and o’s
54 Cultural character 55 Felt remorse for 56 My needle __ 59 Quacked company name
61 Computer instructions 62 Courtyard 63 Dramatic offering 64 Mediterranean capital
66 Tats
68 One of this puzzle’s 144 70 My belt __ 79 Ground cover 80 “Yess!”
81 Empower
82 What may come to mind
86 Native New Zealander
89 Fix, as a toy
92 Sleep disorder 93 My cake __
97 Shut (up)
98 South Pacific island group 99 Parasite
100 Benefit
101 Cookie with a Red Velvet variety 102 Attacks
104 Climb, in a way 106 Direct attention 108 Soften
111 As we speak
113 Beefy soup ingredient 117 My knife __ 125 Genetic material 126 “Need anything __?”
127 Fluffy-eared marsupial
128 And my champagne __ 130 Crossword-solving Simpson
131 Celtic language 132 Trac II cousin 133 Walt Whitman volunteered as one during the Civil War
134 Title for fictional detective Peter Wimsey 135 Parachute fabric 136 Help grow up 137 Printer cartridge contents
DOWN
1 Lacking talent for 2 Deserving of
3 “All Day Strong” brand
4 Not seen before 5 Longtime PLO chairman 6 Mauritania neighbor
7 Airline to Israel 8 Hard-hit batted ball
9 Small antelope with an echoic name
10 First name in design
11 Wander aimlessly 12 Reporter at the front
13 Spread outward 14 Academic research papers 15 Jellylike alga extract
16 Goods suffix 17 Stead
18 Start of a football play 24 Poured juices over 29 Bar mixer
30 Director in the theater? 32 Approached nightfall
36 “Iliad,” for one 37 Second chance 39 Leaning to one side
40 Reebok rival 42 Resting upon 43 Jewish assembly site
44 Roman garment 45 Grayish 46 19th-century diarist Henry __ Robinson
47 Pot-__: “on the fire” French stew 48 Thing of the past 50 Lead to
52 Twining plant 53 Functional
57 Look after 58 Legislative body 60 Snake worshippers, e.g. 65 Spanish 51-Across 67 Tab, say
69 European erupter 71 Slow way of speaking
72 Barely ahead 73 Reckless 74 Personality categories
75 Bond that promotes easy communication 76 Baseball’s Doubleday 77 __ Woods, original voice of Disney’s
Cinderella 78 “Groovy!”
82 In that case 83 Basketball Hall of Fame coach Smith 84 Stately trees
85 Cream additive 87 Small deer
88 Move bit by bit 90 “When it’s __”: answer to a classic riddle 91 Symbol of bondage
94 So last year
95 “To __ own self be true”: “Hamlet” 96 Soil
103 Finally registered 105 A stone’s throw 107 Degree
109 Apartment building unit
110 Web message 112 Harmless, as a lie 114 Add splendor to 115 Occupied
116 “See ya” 117 Honeycomb compartment 118 Miscellany
119 Cold War initials 120 Play the first card 121 Besides that 122 Madeline of “Blazing Saddles” 123 Poet Pound
124 Old Russian autocrat
129 Sonny and Cher, for one