Crossword,
LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
1 8 for O, e.g.
5 Quibbles
10 “M*A*S*H” actor
14 Like bachelor parties
18 Excel
20 Autumn color
21 Tea party host
23 Pie company exec?
25 Bad brunch review?
26 Find new quarters for
27 Winter fall
29 Film units
30 Michelangelo masterpiece
31 MSN competitor
32 Cooking fat
34 Guadalajara girls
37 Neighborhood with meat purveyors?
43 Air freshener scent
46 Performed, in Shakespeare
48 How surprise party guests should arrive
49 Blanched
50 Yours, in Tours
51 Doc bloc
52 Keisters
54 “Momo” author Michael
55 ATM code you rotate regularly?
59 FICA benefit 60 Unit in Ohm’s Law
62 Costa del __
63 Female antelope
64 Mellow
66 Looked lecherously
67 Suffix meaning “living substance”
69 Not yet on the sched.
70 Coast
72 Like many churches
75 Light
78 Adaptable truck, for short
79 “Bravo!”
82 Barbershop parts
83 Batman and the Boy Wonder, e.g.
84 Thief at a fertility clinic?
87 AA and AAA, e.g.
88 Takes from a deck
90 “Do Ya” rock gp.
91 “I see”
92 Starry-eyed agreement, often
93 Area below the abdomen
95 Leslie of “Gigi”
97 Holders of roasts
98 Nasty group of directors?
101 Like Dennis the Menace
103 Part of Q.E.D.
104 Bit of baby talk
105 Leg bone
108 Old will?
111 Work (out)
114 Inflexible
116 Stadium for a boxing match?
118 Journalists covering a spicy story?
121 Wood preservatives
122 Farm refrain
123 Spock’s father
124 Firm employees: Abbr.
125 Bone on a menu
126 Some NCOs
127 Time at the inn
DOWN
1 Cleopatra killer
2 Choreographer Twyla
3 Japanese-American
4 Without delay, as payment
5 Intimidates
6 Advil target
7 MLB scoreboard abbr.
8 Homes built indoors
9 Traitors
10 Crazily
11 Like a flimsy excuse
12 Backstage theater workers
13 An MRI may reveal a torn one
14 “Fiddler on the Roof ” setting
15 Bind, in a way
16 Asian sea
17 Mil. bigwigs
19 Arousing
22 As a result of this
24 Chinese currency
28 __-rock
33 Modern address
35 Commonly used saws
36 Gullible sort
38 Cut out
39 “You lose a lot of time, __ people”: Marian Anderson
40 Dog tag datum
41 Close-knit group
42 Injured, in a way
43 Drummer Ulrich
44 “Am __ late?”
45 Hang loosely
47 Place for an honoree
53 Collection of heir pieces?
54 Blunt blade
56 Do-nothing
57 Wikipedia policy
58 Words indicating a delay
60 Thomas associate
61 Euripides tragedy
65 “Criminal Minds” agcy.
67 Some Olympians, nowadays
68 Leaf ’s central vein
71 Two-time Tony winner Patti
72 Zeno, notably
73 Concealed
74 Bullion unit
76 Natural fertilizer
77 Hungarian wine region
79 “I wasn’t expecting you”
80 “__ we forget” 81 God with a quiver
85 Hardly haute cuisine
86 Large South American rodents
88 Easy paces
89 Misers
93 Saddle-holding bands
94 Tiny messenger
96 Keats, in a Shelley title
97 Economizes
99 AT&T and
Verizon
100 Dept. of Justice bigwigs
102 Opp. of legato, in music
106 Still
107 Baffled
108 Humane org.
109 On the disabled list, say
110 Without __: riskily
112 Farm females
113 “Not to mention ... ”
114 Came down
115 “Vaya con __”
117 Bit of heckling
119 “Andy Capp” cartoonist Smythe
120 __ blue