L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Avian mimic

5 Selling point? 10 Weasel cousin 15 Passed quickly, as time 19 Pigeon calls

20 Kind of column 21 Stands at lectures 22 Lead in a movie, say 23 What the acrobatic landlady liked to do? 26 Wile E. Coyote supplier 27 Run-of-the-mill 28 Former LeBron team, on sports tickers

29 Lost on purpose 31 Buds, possibly 32 TruTV show for board game enthusiasts? 37 Sorority letter 39 Former LeBron team, on sport tickers

40 Takes a breather

41 “The Simpsons” retailer 44 “Chain of Fools” name 47 Out in the yacht

49 Bite playfully

52 When a pro might practice at Augusta National? 56 Departed

57 “Once __ a time ... “58 Yon yacht

59 Name in a Tolstoy title 60 Formal split 62 Electric wheels 64 Second-tallest living bird 66 Inform 68 Skin-related

69 Gym employees for those getting in shape fast? 73 Don’t hold your breath 76 Antelope playmates 77 Musical muscle car 78 Agave plant

82 “The wisdom of many and the wit of one”: Russell 84 Dread

86 Bigelow product 88 Often painful crack 89 Cut with a small knife 90 Gold medal winners at the Renaissance fair? 94 Thesaurus wd.

95 Doing nothing

96 Cabinet department 97 Minute

98 China’s Zhou __

101 QB’s stat

102 Shocked text letters 104 Wedding chapel’s main

form of advertising? 111 Vacation destination 115 Caroline Islands

components

116 Rescue squad initials 117 Rant

119 Fictional plantation 120 Where bills should be put

after an audit? 125 “Slippery” trees

126 “... but I could be wrong” 127 Celestial ovine 128 Shuts down 129 Colorist’s supply 130 Price enders, often 131 Category 132 Obliterate, in Oxford

DOWN

1 Menial work

2 “__ it!”

3 __ plume

4 Have high hopes 5 Hindu “Destroyer” 6 Start of an adage about humanity 7 Sandwich shop order 8 Often tickled bone? 9 “Foucault’s Pendulum” author

10 Diagonal sail extender 11 Now

12 Pindar piece

13 Make widely known 14 Samples 15 Stadium staples 16 Eastwood’s “Bronco Billy” co-star Sondra 17 Fictional hunter in a floppy hat

18 Signs of garden neglect 24 GM subsidiary 25 Guy’s girlfriend 30 Comedy __

33 One may be dull

34 Trek pack animal 35 Algonquian language 36 Picked up

38 Trojan War god 41 Touch 42 Nickname for José 43 Eerie fliers

45 Old anesthetic

46 Like many crosswords 47 “Up” star

48 WWII prison camp 49 Standard

50 Subject of Huáscar 51 Orange discard 53 Legally off base 54 Baited insect collector 55 Beans or greens 56 Scalia’s successor 61 Enhancing word 63 Shaft between wheels 65 Handy

67 Trivial

70 Vivacious

71 Words near an “F,” maybe 72 Musical handicap 73 Omar of “In Too Deep” 74 Doctor’s order 75 French __ 79 Consider carefully, with “over” 80 Attention

81 Basilica recess 83 Astros catcher McCann 85 Bonnie Blue’s dad 87 2012 Ben Affleck film 91 “Gotcha!”

92 Casino game requirement, often

93 Symphonic disc 98 Mercedes line

99 Kings’ org.

100 City from which Vasco da

Gama sailed

101 NBA part

103 Driver’s license info 104 Hardly favored

105 Volta’s birthplace

106 Musical Mel

107 86-Across variety 108 Drops

109 German river, to locals 110 Less risky

112 Gemini docking target 113 Lumps for Miss Muffet 114 German state

118 Climbed

121 “Exodus” protagonist 122 “The Situation Room”

airer

123 It’s game

124 Longtime Eur. realm