The los angeles times
Flip-Flops
ACROSS
1 Wretched 7 Mount Rainier
gateway 13 Hoops statistic 19 Taste
20 In favor of
Mideast unity 21 Arty
22 The drive
through diner scene that was cut became a __ 24 Right after this 25 Fall garden? 26 Riverbank
residue 27 Parisian season 28 Vote of support 29 What Jill has that
Jack doesn’t? 30 Break
31 Stab
32 1956 title film
monster
34 Smart
36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __ 41 LP’s 33 1/3 44 Browsing
annoyances 45 Wordless
agreement 46 Sugary ending 47 Reduce
48 Long
50 Shot __: competitive event 51 Privileged people 53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __ 57 False front
63 Get into
64 What a stationary orrery part may represent 65 Clarifying Latin
words
67 Grew dimmer 68 Sweetens, as
yams
70 Iraqi currency 72 Modified for the
better 74 Private
75 Barely sufficient 77 Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant 78 Surrealist German-French painter
79 Gazes fixedly 81 The casual quarterback made an __ 86 Expand
88 Bossy utterance 89 African capital on the 30th parallel
90 “It is a __ told by an idiot”: Macbeth
94 What chatty
tongues do? 95 Poke fun at 96 Mrs., in Madrid 98 Apply a new hue
to
99 A navel ring is a
piercing one may __
105 It has pipes and
keys
106 Source of some overhead footage
107 Apple operating
system
108 Hadrian’s
defense
112 Follow (along)
closely
113 “It totally
happened!”
115 Memorable first
name in soccer 116 Small racer
117 Sailing
118 Indicating stress 120 The fast-learning police cadet had the __
123 Most trifling
124 Fail to take
seriously
125 Red-skinned
root
126 Current
events?
127 Soaked through 128 Demands and
gets
DOWN
1 Following 2 Business end of
an ax
3 “North and South” trilogy author John __ 4 Track contests 5 Bill’s partner 6 Confided in 7 Showing strain 8 One lining up for
food?
9 Took care of the
food
10 Strong speaker 11 Be resourceful 12 Prez on a penny 13 Feeling it after a
workout 14 Lusters 15 Honorary title 16 Picnic pitcherful 17 NBA’s Steph
Curry, frequently 18 Early photograph 20 Sea anemone,
e.g.
23 Gives out
28 “__ of robins ... “:
Kilmer
33 Refrains from 35 The Eiger, for
one
37 Secure, as a job
or a role
38 “Get __”: James
Brown biopic 39 Choose at the
polls
40 Shipping
hazard 41 Bread-making
grain
42 Locket, for one 43 Singer/actress known as the “Queen of Pop” 49 Cause to become 50 Mae West’s “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted,” e.g. 51 Icelandic literary
work
52 Sidelong
glance 54 Consume
55 Kitty 56 Beethoven’s __ 58 Response to the
sublime 59 Largest English
speaking country 60 Google operating
system
61 Cook, as much
county fair fare 62 Announcer Hall 66 Gauge on the
dash
68 Opposite of trans 69 Hot temper 70 Inane 71 Lowdown
73 “Give __ minute” 76 Often “old”
eccentric
77 Big deal
80 Like fireplace
logs
82 Within
83 Plant stem joint 84 Final Four org. 85 Moriarty, to
Holmes
87 __ longlegs 90 Cheat on one’s
sweet, say 91 Freshened up, in
a way 92 Slowpoke 93 Often titled
stretch 95 Massaged 96 Excalibur, e.g. 97 Put back as it
was
100 Not sensible
101 Pecorino __
cheese
102 __ Kingdom
103 Laughing
104 Its capital is
Kigali
109 Gelatin garnish 110 “Not in the __” 111 Framework strips 114 Book after John 116 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle
119 Gift with an
aloha
120 Brief
afterthoughts
121 Metal source
122 Become more intense, as the moon