SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
POSITION PAPERS
ACROSS
1 “Doctor Who” airer
4 Comedian Wong
7 North African expanse
13 Flying disc game
19 Traffic regulator in a construction zone
21 Chemical cousin
22 First-string units
23 Periodical for prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges? 25 Xterra maker
26 Yalies
27 Promo
28 Altercations 29 Commoner
30 Paint brand sold at Home Depot
31 Canoe material 34 Foreign policy gp. 36 Support
37 Rooney of “Women Talking”
38 Guitar accessories 40 880 square feet, for a pickleball court
41 … for con artists?
44 … for kitchen remodelers?
46 Drift
47 Captain Nemo creator 49 Geek
50 Org. created two years before the 1896 Athens games
53 Major work
54 Cape __, Massachusetts
55 Actor Vigoda 58 “Monday Night Football” channel
61 Pod members 63 Everyone
65 Missed the mark
67 ... for aspiring entertainers?
71 Physicist Mach 72 Squeeze (out) 73 Gaming tile
74 Retired jets
75 Kama Sutra topic 76 Informal greetings 78 Sonic the Hedgehog platform
79 Gaming cubes
81 Paris river
83 Ohio home of Minor League Baseball’s RubberDucks
84 Shel Silverstein’s “A Light in the __”
88 … for potato chip aficionados?
91 … for scuba divers?
95 Granola bar bits 96 Sag
97 Private aid gps. 98 “Insecure” star Issa 99 Sample on a swab 100 Soul singer Baker 102 Gear parts
103 Cross products
104 Like hot yoga
108 Venus flytrap snack 110 Sandy sediment
111 Margaret Atwood’s homeland
112 … for clockmakers? 116 Spring river phenomenon
117 Amp toter
118 Takes the plunge 119 Talks to online
120 Bays, e.g.
121 Sigma follower
122 Show with an early a.m. after-party
DOWN
1 Fave pal
2 Offside boundary in hockey
3 Picked in class 4 Gremlins, or where some saw “Gremlins” 5 Southeast Asian language
6 Yet to be delivered 7 Instrument that dates to the Mughal Empire 8 Nile vipers
9 Biblical peak 10 Alaskans, Hawaiians, etc.
11 Hi or low follower 12 “__ longa, vita brevis” 13 “Citizen __” 14 Bickering
15 Jay’s home
16 “All the President’s Men” Oscar winner 17 Stockpiles
18 Yahoo! rival 20 Smooth-talking 24 Post-injury regimen 28 “Grey’s Anatomy” production company 29 Bygone
30 The Orioles, in box scores
32 Broccoli __ 33 Cost-of-living fig. 35 Purr-former 37 Baseball VIPs
39 In stitches
40 Mimic
42 Hurts
43 Increase in
complexity, perhaps 44 Passionate activists 45 Moral principle 48 Fencing sword 51 Yelps of pain 52 Charcuterie board accompanier
56 Tuckered out
57 Ice cream brand 58 Peepers
59 Vexed
60 “Groundhog Day” town
62 “Raiders of the
Lost __”
63 Actor Assante 64 Wearable wreath 66 Met, as a challenge 68 Set of principles 69 Enticing sales acronym 70 Showy carp
77 With sharp resolution 78 Having doubts 80 Cleveland NBAers, for short
82 Nav. rank
83 Mine, in Marseille 85 Indefatigable 86 “Things never go my way!”
87 Copyright symbols 88 Cape __, Massachusetts
89 Rifle
90 Cyclotron particle 92 Pre-flood Biblical patriarch
93 Custardy dessert 94 Like a negative number squared: Abbr. 101 Battery terminal 102 Hands over
103 Flamingo hue
105 Wyatt of the Old West
106 Together, in music 107 Souvenirs from an island vacation?
109 Bit of pique
110 California sch. of Padres legend Tony Gwynn
111 Prefix with gender 112 __ Lanka
113 Geological stretch 114 “Candyman” director DaCosta
115 Gateway Arch city, for short