LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
“BEGONE” By MARK MCCLAIN
ACROSS
1 Impressive sights at
affairs
8 Fendi rival
13 Paved
19 Victim of river diversion in
Asia
20 Like some R-rated films
21 Comfortable
22 Sports venue where the home team hasn’t won in years?
24 Boulevard feature
25 Invoice no.
26 Brainstorm
27 Dreyfus defender
29 Heavy weight
30 Hubbub
33 Trimming plans 35 Industrial site
37 Like memories to smile
about
39 Sock part
41 Hottest, in a way
44 Cattle farm run by
bigwigs?
51 __ Stephens: 2017 US Open Women’s Singles champ
52 Tennis feature
53 Isolated work group that hinders corporate efficiency
54 Bone near a calf
56 Belgian artist James
57 Chews like beavers
60 “I __ noticed”
62 Change for a ten
64 Drop the ball
65 Bird rarely on the wing
67 Pitt URL ending
68 Toys “R” Us giraffe mascot
71 Epithet for Henry Ford? 76 Stayed to the bitter end 79 NBA impossibility 80 Hide out
84 Sushi bar order 85 Company named for the exaggerated height of its tallish bottles
87 Bowling headache 90 “Crazy” vocalist 91 Mountain gap
94 Blood bank fluids 96 Blackthorn fruit
97 FD employee
98 Magnate
100 Advice for runners’ practice sessions?
105 Feeling guilty
107 Ducks org.
108 Frozen Four org.
109 Tough goings
110 Like some promises
114 Swan dive revelation 118 Expected result
120 Cause for a claim
123 Not as relaxed
125 Smeltery input
126 French star
128 Powerful fall cleanup tools?
132 Having a twist
133 Bug, for one
134 Gets back to business 135 Sorrowful tune
136 Free-for-all
137 Red Sea land
DOWN
1 Mother of Isaac 2 First-class
3 Totaled
4 Reindeer cousin
5 Japan’s Mount __ 6 Disobedient
7 Org. concerned with youth substance abuse
8 Ramble on
9 Egyptian site of a historic 1799 discovery
10 NFL passing stat
11 Nueve y uno
12 Bat prefix
13 Spicy food truck items 14 Had some 13-Down
15 Purplish veggie
16 TV weather promo about a
storm threat?
17 Biblical twin 18 Entertainment center sites 20 Actor Morales
23 Iraq War weapon: Abbr. 28 Vinyl revival items: Abbr.
31 Low USMC rank
32 MLB Hall of Famer Brock 34 Family guys
36 Bar on a truck
38 Chef’s creation
40 Cavern phenomenon 42 [Bo-ring!]
43 Absorbent fabric
44 Many an MIT grad
45 Lawless role
46 Coup d’__
47 Routing word 48 Respected figure
49 Concerto finale, perhaps 50 Depend
55 Poetic contraction
58 Hot spot service
59 ER demand
61 Research university with a
Boston campus 63 Agronomist’s concern 66 School near Windsor 69 Org. created by the 1933 Banking Act
70 Sense
72 Shades
73 Early number? 74 Buzzed
75 Familiar greeting
76 Fall mall hiree 77 Ship-to-ship greetings 78 Quarters for a spell caster?
81 Actor Schreiber
82 “I’m buying!” 83 Moistens
86 Country whose name ends in the same three letters as its capital 88 Debtor’s note 89 Gull relative
92 Lynn’s father worked in one
93 Primate genus
95 Pain pill target 99 Ignore
101 Provider of shade 102 Harder to get
103 Corn unit
104 Fast flight 106 U.K. military award 111 Goal of an accord 112 Flanged fastener 113 Fashion initials
115 __ face
116 Peace goddess
117 “The Gondoliers” bride 118 Playwright Simon 119 Sierra’s “other”
121 Carpenter’s wedge 122 “Auld Lang __” 124 Cork’s home 127 Maya __, Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer
129 ISP option
130 French king
131 Just right