Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“THE FINAL FRONTIER” By GARY LARSON and AMY ENSZ

ACROSS

1 Country that’s about 24 times longer than its average width 6 Vendor’s wagon 14 Online access cos. 18 Nixon’s older daughter 19 It established Congress 20 PDQ, in the ER 21 Satisfied with one’s work in the transporter room? 23 Miles’ “Sideways” love interest

24 NFL official 25 Conger catchers 26 Daring deed 28 Informer 29 Setting for searches 31 Black

34 Big mess 36 Title book in a classic computer game 37 Brezhnev of the

USSR

40 One who gets in 42 Detain Dr.

McCoy? 47 Sends, in a way 48 Cover letters? 51 One may be

painted

52 Fancy topping 54 Mangy mutt 55 Apple product 56 Opening tempo of Dvorák’s “New World Symphony” 58 __ gratia artis:

MGM motto 61 End of a

warning 63 Weave

66 “Be silent,” in

music

68 Arch type 69 Phaser, slangily? 73 Tiny 74 Katniss’ ally in “The Hunger Games” 76 Surpasses 77 Forward pass 79 No. with two dashes

80 Ski weekend destination 82 Pluck 84 Flamenco shout 85 Heineken brand named for a Mexican city 87 Recurring 90 Actor Beatty 91 Warm sign-off 93 DNA sample from Kirk’s chief engineering officer? 97 Beverly Cleary title dog 99 Defrauded, say, with “on” 100 18-wheeler 104 Frontier home 105 Either Zimbalist 107 Creme-filled Drake’s cake 111 Bobby of the

Bruins

112 Contents of

some banks 114 Gloomy

116 Wedding

promise

117 Newton, e.g. 119 Masseuse trained in massage techniques from Spock’s home planet?

124 Fabled loch 125 Observing lions in the wild, maybe

126 Sign up 127 De Matteo of

“The Sopranos” 128 Uncalled-for 129 Candy mogul

H.B. __

DOWN

1 Makes with skill 2 Gender-specific

pronoun

3 Less cordial 4 Flax fabric

5 High nester 6 “Easy to Be

Hard” musical 7 Song and dance 8 Unnamed degree 9 Cocktail party staple

10 “Bad Moon Rising” band, briefly 11 Adjust in a garage

12 Flight by night 13 Connections 14 School of thought 15 Allure of boldly going where no man has gone before? 16 Pony up the service charge, say

17 Museum pieces 18 Wee

21 Cup part 22 Bayou, perhaps 27 Poet who used the name Old Possum 30 Abbr. often after a comma 31 Carbon

compound 32 Storage spot 33 Horatian work 35 Sports org. name since 1910 38 Historic time 39 It’s a wrap 41 Big name in jeans

43 Elevator name 44 Runs easily 45 Grazing area 46 Barely enough 48 News exclusives 49 Clears of data,

as a PC 50 Happy Meal toy replica of Captain Kirk’s ship? 53 “A Death in the Family” author James 56 Wonderstruck 57 “Buenos __” 59 Flea market deal 60 Did salon work 62 Allow

63 Latin “behold” 64 Bygone depilatory brand 65 First word in all but one “Seinfeld” episode title 67 Cause of

inflation 70 Everglades

deposit

71 Wheel

connectors 72 Play delayers 75 Gave in (to) 78 Start of a classic

accusation 81 Fabled racer 82 Flapjack cooker 83 Dorm overseers, for short 86 Wilcox daughter in “Howards End” 87 Tabloid couple

88 Sign-off letters before L

89 Nice season 91 Blow away 92 “Ambition should be made of __ stuff”: “Julius Caesar” 94 EMT skill

95 It’s found in banks 96 Immigrant’s subj. 98 Tighten the strings of, maybe

101 Safe to have 102 Example 103 Composer

Stravinsky 106 Bogus

108 Church official 109 Nemo’s creator 110 Habituate 113 Makeup line 114 Galahad et al. 115 Action movie

weapons 118 Screening org. 120 Heel

121 CIO partner 122 Dundee denial 123 NYY rival