LET’S GET LITERATURE
Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is the assistant crossword editor for The Los Angeles Times. Katie Hale is a stay-athome mom in London, England. The idea for this puzzle started with Katie. She had a few minutes to kill while waiting for an online cours
ACROSS 1 Precursor to a
circuit breaker
5 _____ bar
10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa
descriptor
19 “Hello there,
sailor!”
20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous lookalikes
21 Somewhat
22 Core workout
challenge
23 Looks up from reading “Frankenstein”? 27 Moody North
Yorkshire setting 28 Handy
29 Restless
30 Split hairs?
31 Words exchanged during an “altar”cation
32 Revise
33 Reads “Catch-22,” “Closing Time” and “Something Happened” —
and doesn’t stop there?
39 Atmospheric
driving hazard
42 Came to
43 Assistant
44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a
grump
47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near
the cheek
48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner
50 “Aquaman” actor
Jason
52 English indie-pop
singer Parks
53 Sleek reef
swimmers
55 Borrows “The Color Purple” from the library instead of “The Flowers”? 60 1960s activist
Bobby
62 Word with play or
fight
63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down
65 First in a line of
13 popes
67 Strands
69 Lifewater and
Elixir brand
71 “Wow!”
74 Fashion guru Tim 76 “_____ the spirit!” 78 D.E.A. target
81 Listens to “Tom Jones” on audiobook?
85 Matterhorn range 87 Wheely good
invention?
88 Off
89 _____ tube
91 H
92 Conclude by
94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
95 “Chat another
time!” in an I.M. 97 Bolt in a sprint
99 Director
Guillermo _____ Toro
100 Reads “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” so many times its spine splits?
105 Cryptids on snowy mountains
107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate
108 [sigh]
109 Pilot greenlighter, in brief 111 “Ask away!”
113 Iconic scarecrow
topper
117 Donates some copies of “King Lear” to the Renaissance
Festival?
120 Still
121 Curling locale
122 Musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” 123 _____ Rachel Wood of “Westworld” 124 Castles,
essentially 125 Chances
126 Not let lapse 127 It can be
outstanding
DOWN 1 “Octopuses can
use tools,” e.g.
2 “This is not
good!”
3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust
4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an
airport shop
5 Suave
6 Decant
7 Painting and
filmmaking
8 Person in a head
set?
9 Keebler cookie with shortbread
and chocolate
10 Send away
11 Biblical analogue of Aron in “East of Eden”
12 High-_____
(kind of jeans or apartment building)
13 South Korean “Princes of
Pop”
14 Jimmies and
corkscrews
15 Debbie of “Fame” and “Grey’s Anatomy”
16 Things often next to napkins in place settings
17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut
alternative
24 Put in order
25 Text-writer’s
segue
26 Philosopher
David
31 Alternative to a
diaphragm 32 Like games
marked 1->99
33 Strong wind
34 Pains for
preschoolers
35 Chivalrous avatar
of Vishnu
36 Sounds from a
64-Across
37 Saint associated
with a “fire”
38 Birds on
Canadian dollars 40 Big-eyed
hatchling
41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor
46 Follower of “So”
or “lo”
49 Patronized a
restaurant
50 Homes for cattails and bulrushes
51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberrypicking girl of children’s literature
56 “Yuck!”
57 “You’re right
about that!”
58 “You’re not right
about that!”
59 “Chiquitita”
singing group
61 Endurance, so to
speak
66 Scarfs down
68 Norm: Abbr.
70 Geological span 71 Chose
72 QB’s protection 73 Very rarely
75 Ancient home of
a mythical lion
77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop
specialty
80 Fiber-_____
82 “I’m in favor”
83 Rat
84 The Big Easy
86 Sound
90 Fabric made
from jute
93 Med. exams with intradermal
injections
No. 0612
95 O’er yon
96 “The Muppets”
villain Richman 98 Macroalgae
101 Costa _____
102 Baby birds?
103 Deuces
104 Cold War pact
city
106 Use, as
influence
109 “Here I come,
weekend!”
110 In _____ veritas 111 Reported
112 Back
113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr.
115 Horse with
endurance
116 Billowy dress
style
118 To’s counterpart 119 Broadway, for
one: Abbr.