The los angeles times
ACROSS
1 “The Name of the Game” pop quartet
5 Driver’s lic. info 8 Nixed, at NASA 12 Back teeth 18 Adolescent 19 Concessions
purchase
20 Very, informally 21 Bright red
liqueur
22 Date night, or a midgame show starring Beyoncé instead of the coach’s nephew’s garage band? 25 Stovetop piper 26 Still going 27 Cappuccino
topping 28 Prophetic sign 30 Pliable wood 31 English article 32 “And so forth”
abbr.
34 Bohr played by Kenneth Branagh in “Oppenheimer” 37 Word with bright
or big
39 Giving up a lazy Saturday to clean up a beach at sunrise, or waking up to pancakes instead of gruel?
45 Busy mo. for a
102-Across 47 Weep
48 Brazilian
berry
49 Cancel
50 Ease of
movement 53 Target
55 Food stamp org. 56 A chic gray bob and cat eye bifocals, or sleeping until noon and dancing until dawn? 59 Classified 60 Ethically
indifferent
61 Skip over
62 Fast Amtrak train 64 Took first place 65 Underground
systems
67 Fluffy craft
supply
70 Writing tip? 73 Adventure game
console
75 Soy block
76 “I am enough,”
e.g.
78 Snouts 80 Cardstock instead of newsprint, or the work of a wordy student?
85 Feel (for) 86 Spanish diacritic 87 Meetings
88 Bite noisily 90 Operatic icon 91 Pub choice 92 Wolfed down 93 “The copy editor says this needs a capital letter,” or a judge saying “Not enough evidence” in a bass-baritone? 99 Flit
100 Greek fabulist 101 Wallach of “The
Holiday”
102 Tax prep pro
105 Scolding sound 108 Spring
110 2-Down, for one 112 Ready at a
moment’s notice 114 “Girl on Fire”
singer Keys
116 God’s rest on the seventh day, or forty winks on a bunk bed?
120 Sharp grabbers 121 Large barrel
122 Fish caught in
pots
123 Hippocratic __ 124 Orbital extreme 125 18-wheeler 126 “Happy now?” 127 __ bargain
DOWN
1 Up, in baseball 2 Canvas for many
an arborglyph 3 Midler of “Hocus
Pocus”
4 Against
5 Play-__: Fun
Factory clay 6 Norwegian saint 7 Balderdash 8 Cappuccino
topping, perhaps 9 __-Wan Kenobi 10 Jewel
11 Cookie used to make Halloween bat-shaped treats
12 Manage with whatever’s available
13 1968 to now, in professional tennis
14 “__ the games
begin!” 15 Highbrow
16 Part
17 Whole lot 19 Heraklion’s
island
23 Eternally
24 Event where pies
win ribbons 29 “La Bohème”
heroine
33 Prickly plants 35 Like fertile soil 36 Bolsa Chica State Beach’s locale, informally 38 Single-season
bloom
39 Actress Pam 40 Take a shot at 41 Promposal goal 42 Appliance that performs under pressure?
43 In the buff 44 Happy
45 Dollar alternative 46 Give ’em the old