LA TimES CROSSWORD:
ACROSS
1 Beat decisively
5 Evoke an “Eww!,” maybe 13 Venetian Renaissance
painter
19 He played Klaatu in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008)
20 Inferior accommodations
21 Common cone color
22 All caps in an angry blog? 24 Glutinous
25 Christmas in Rome
26 Etna output
27 Nonsense
29 Artist friend of Dal
30 They usually have frames 32 “Untoward behavior shall call for appropriate countermeasures,” e.g.? 36 Trig function
37 Word with tax or L.A.
41 __ martini
42 Put away
43 Fruity, so to speak 44 Absorbs, with “up” 46 Barfly
47 Wiseacre mom and dad?
53 Hider’s hissed revelation 55 Biblical spy
56 Means
59 Skilled at painting, say 63 Type of dog that does
origami?
69 Perjurious testimony 70 81-Down friend
71 Astonish
72 23rd Greek letter 73 Capital NNW of
Copenhagen
74 Farsi editor’s mark? 77 Submit a crossword, say 79 Nytol competitor
80 “I’m not __ brag, but … ”
81 Urban park snack snitcher 84 Finishing touch for foppish painters?
92 __ roll
93 Long-running CBS drama 96 Nose-wrinkling
97 Prov. bordering four Great Lakes
98 Formicidae family member 99 Mourns
100 Meat serving
104 1932 presidential election victory?
108 Fixed function
110 Gator relative
111 White team
112 Shout
115 Heat units
116 “Tear down this wall!” speaker
118 Hush-hush lamasery topic?
122 Keep going
123 Higher than normal, maybe
124 Cal State city
125 Joust participants
126 Sticks in drinks
127 Brings together
DOWN
1 U.S. peak officially renamed in 2015
2 Palm used in furniture 3 Angst
4 Rounded, knotty tree growths
5 Follower of Mao?
6 “__ girl!”
7 Congressional mtg. 8 Worker with mice
9 Go left instead of right, say
10 One inspiring PDAs
11 “F Troop” corporal played by Larry Storch 12 Musicians’ garage creations, maybe 13 “Mazel __!”
14 “Fighting” Indiana team 15 It’s shocking 16 Go up
17 Washer component 18 “Spider-Man” reporter __
Leeds
19 Board members who
might become mated? 23 Supplies order phrase 28 Beginner
31 Ivory, for one
32 Viking great Tarkenton
33 No. 2
34 Entering, as data
35 Head of France 38 Significant archaeological
find
39 Long-nosed fish 40 Boise-to-Fargo dir. 45 Brush off
47 Make a killing on, in a way 48 Skyler’s sister on
“Breaking Bad”
49 Redo
50 Come out with a more
current version of 51 “Chad” network
52 “A pity”
54 Most any Disney princess 57 Ones often seen in
restricted lounges 58 Massachusetts motto
starter
60 Sleeper, for one
61 Electrolysis products 62 Pixar film set in Mexico 63 Distant
64 Need to pay
65 Permit
66 Fragrant compound
67 Top names
68 Prohibition words
75 Privy to
76 Concert piece
78 Pt. of an age calculation
81 Storied bear
82 Unworldly
83 PepsiCo sports beverage 85 1970 Kinks hit
86 Driver of
“BlacKkKlansman” 87 Dot follower?
88 Choler
89 Prefix with event or issue 90 Nerve
91 Valuable things
94 Swing voters: Abbr. 95 Lightning simulators 100 Yuletide display
101 Really awful
102 Early Mexicans 103 Basil-and-pine-nuts sauce 105 Lauren Hutton has been on its cover 26 times
106 Modern greeting
107 Rejoice
109 “Superman & Lois” network
112 Burn a bit
113 Solemn event
114 Belgian river 116 Hi-__ image
117 Video game letters 119 Agnus __
120 Binge-watcher’s device 121 Ideal NFL drive endings