L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Why not?

ACROSS

1 Writers

5 Bearlike marsupial 10 Super-impressed 14 Numerical suffix for “about”

17 Fast Northeast train 19 Severe distress

20 Greater

21 Usually well-compensated

leader

22 Animated image of Santa repeatedly going down the chimney?

24 Adorn

26 Owie spot, maybe 27 Burdens

29 Windshield sticker 30 Cashew family shrubs 33 Garage service

34 Extract with a solvent 35 Crew member

38 Robert who sang the role of Figaro 46 times at the Met

41 Fruity neckwear?

43 Votes at a beer

convention?

45 Smaller

46 Socially challenged one,

often

47 Rural skyline standouts 48 Hereditary

50 Japanese pond fish 52 Beach volleyball team 53 Woman’s name that means “pleasure” in Hebrew

55 Country sound

58 Sam or Wiggily

62 Cruller coating

64 Words before a view 66 Muffin grain

67 First catch the fly, then eat the fly? 71 Indication of growing impatience? 73 Valentine card hugs 74 Popular school cafeteria item

76 Immerse (in), as maple

syrup

77 Togo neighbor 79 Sharpening tool 80 Fare-well link

82 Maker of Aspire laptops 85 “Sorry, lad”

87 How Sitka, Alaska, ranks

as the largest U.S. city 89 Wedding party

90 Trojan War god 93 Small-time British crook 96 Social newcomer who

won’t go away?

99 Basic banking rule? 101 Plague

102 USCG officer

103 Courage

104 __ even footing

106 __ network

108 Meaningless

109 BP, pulse, etc.

112 Causes of traffic jams ... or

ways to avoid them 116 The “there” in “Don’t go

there”

118 Subjecting to a basic

haunting strategy? 121 Heart test letters 122 Hunger remedy wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette

123 Means

124 Hard work

125 Poor grade

126 Is indebted to

127 Principle

128 Goes off

DOWN

1 Treaty 2 Repetitive sound 3 Emperor adopted by Claudius

4 Buttonholes, e.g.

5 Ukulele wood

6 MD workplaces

7 Ship protected by Hera 8 Cut of meat

9 Really bad

10 Tiny shape-shifters 11 Goes downhill

12 North end?

13 Numb

14 Rock at the bar?

15 Cato the Elder or Cato the

Younger 16 Cop’s case-breaking tip, perhaps

18 Supposes

19 Campaign nastiness 23 Kitchen convenience 25 Skin pigment

28 Renter’s rental

31 1993 Aerosmith hit that begins “There was a time / When I was so brokenhearted”

32 Tuscany city

35 Recipe meas.

36 Tenor’s moment

37 Faith

39 PC-to-PC system 40 Future attys.’ exams 42 Set as a price

44 __ Cup

49 Unexpected story ending 51 Improve upon 53 __-Nehemiah: Hebrew

Bible book

54 Coll. units

56 Japanese tech company 57 Sparkling rock

59 Happen at the same time 60 Fall behind

61 Addis Ababa’s land: Abbr. 63 Company named for a

volcano

64 Playwright Chekhov 65 About, on memos 67 Weep 68 “The Purloined Letter” writer

69 Allow

70 Reach

72 Bee team

75 Iridescent gems

78 How some things are set 80 Mortise joiner

81 Dutch city, with “The” 83 Eve’s first home

84 Civil War fighters

86 Paul Anka’s “__ Beso” 88 Mythical elephant carrier 89 Inspiring acts? 90 Counseled

91 Lost Colony’s island 92 Blow up

94 Incite

95 Sets a match to

97 Plod

98 White-plumed wader 100 Painting on wet plaster 105 Annoy constantly

107 “Almost Like Being in

Love” composer Frederick 110 Happening right now 111 Pet reindeer in “Frozen” 113 Lyft competitor

114 Lion’s warning

115 They’re often smashed 117 Friendly dog’s offering 119 Like Bach’s French Suite

No. 6

120 Superfan