Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“THREE’S COMPANY” BY ED SESSA

ACROSS

1 Creature of __ 6 Profound 10 Golden Arches

pork sandwich 15 Crime novelist

Buchanan 19 Lingering

evidence 20 One-named singer from Ireland 21 Pimento holder,

perhaps 22 Mireille of “Big

Love”

23 Big brawl 24 Dvorak,

Masaryk, Havel? 26 Riveted

27 Wee woolly one 28 Bit of heckling 29 Great Plains

people

30 Asian island

capital

32 More mad

34 Sp. misses 35 Suez Canal ship 36 Find not guilty 38 Jeans line 39 Holiday, Hampton, Red Roof?

42 Circular 43 Declares 45 Harbor haulers 46 Evergreen tree 47 Fair __ coffee 48 Touch lightly 49 Small

amphibians 51 Number of

billiard ball colors 52 Down in the

dumps 53 Cathedral topper 55 Exclusively 56 Music genre

with accordions 57 Voucher 58 Home buyer’s

option

60 Queen, drone,

worker? 62 Two-bit 64 Continental org. 65 Measure of

brainpower 66 Pharoah, Chou,

Leno? 67 Aesop’s grasshopper, e.g.

68 Some golf trophies 69 MacDowell of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” 70 “Stay” singer Lisa 71 Longtime NPR news analyst Roberts

73 “I knew it __ you” 76 With 92-Across, “The Dragons of Eden” writer 77 Actress Merrill 78 Elisabeth of “Leaving Las Vegas”

79 Put up

81 Prefix with

meter 82 “Severance”

actor Scott 84 Make right 86 Panasonic TV

line

87 First, Second,

Third?

89 Purple flower 90 Boris who won three Wimbledon championships in the 1980s 91 City on the

Seine

92 See 76-Across 94 Boardroom

stand

95 Azadi Tower city 97 Assertive to a

fault

98 Wily

99 Michelle, to

Barack 102 Cooking show

appliance 103 Galahad,

Lancelot, El Cid? 106 Strength

107 Marshy land 108 Radii neighbors 109 Dynamic start? 110 Lower joint 111 Ran, as dye 112 Scholarly article

reviewers 113 “Probably shouldn’t open this in your cubicle” shorthand 114 Younger siblings,

probably

DOWN

1 Web programming language 2 Focus of study 3 ChapStick, Burt’s Bees, Lip Smacker? 4 Frozen over 5 Light shirt 6 Interior design 7 Automaker

Ferrari 8 Organ with a

lens

9 Hoarders 10 “Dune” actor

Jason

11 Lobster portions 12 “Let You Love

Me” singer Ora 13 “So __ heard” 14 Topping

15 More creepy 16 Genetic

fingerprints 17 “Nothing doing” 18 Prosecco kin 25 Blackjack

request 28 Wager

31 MLB playoff

event 33 Vanpool, e.g. 34 Bering, Coral,

Baltic? 35 Responsibility 36 Liberal __ 37 Red Sox

manager Alex 38 Recipe

instruction 39 __-bitty 40 Pretend not to notice

41 __ journal

43 Bunny slope conveyance

44 Mail recipient 50 King Arthur, Gold Medal, Pillsbury? Pillsbury?

51 Short messages 54 Plumbing part 55 16 oz. 56 Personal sources of aggravation

57 Poet Day-Lewis who wrote mysteries as Nicholas Blake 59 Worrywart’s lament

60 Squabble 61 Prefix with distant

62 Manitoba’s country 63 All the Earth’s water 66 Social reformer Riis

70 Fancy transport 72 French affirmatives

73 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? 78 78 74 75 77 80 Part maybe One Glory’s Place Graffiti Graffiti handful Fermented of of of artist’s artist’s a Old 50 honor plot, 82 83 beverage Asian Gillette “Down hatch!” cuisine the razor in 85 Elite Madness __: March round 88 90 Merited __ window 92 Baking staple 93 Campfire remnants 94 Macaroni shape 95 Many an archaeological site 96 Hardly holy 97 Evergreen tree 98 Banzai Pipeline feature 100 Sensed 101 Woolly ones 104 Nats’ div. 105 French article 106 Drain