L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Pet sitting

ACROSS

1 Medical chart entry 4 Author Janowitz 8 Green eggs and ham promoter

14 USPS deliveries 18 Brown of jazz 19 Beats it

21 Thorny shrub 22 “That’s not good”

23 On easy street

26 Beer buy

27 Hall of Famers

28 Put away

29 Knife holder 31 Demands

32 Curtail

37 “__ fair ... “

38 My Chemical Romance 2-Down 40 Sedentary sort

44 They pick up things 48 Mailed

49 Get ready to eat? 50 Muffin topping 51 Battery terminal 53 Assure 55 Orchestra section leader 57 Response in court 59 Blues singer James 60 Tiny lab subjects 61 Maxwell competitor 63 “If it’s handcrafted, ... it’s on __” 64 Designing initials 65 Airline to Stockholm 66 Most Dresden residents 68 H.S. class 71 Medical suffix 74 Anatomical canal

76 Its “B” is sometimes turkey

77 Lively musical piece 81 1993 Literature Nobelist Morrison

83 Brings home

84 Chart with branches 86 Chaotic but appealing person 88 Powerless motion? 90 Boosts, e.g.

91 Sneak off to Vegas, maybe

92 Pinpoint

95 Part of a Shakespearean soothsayer’s warning 97 Track foundation 99 Parenthesis, essentially 100 Film __

101 To begin with

105 Bridge positions

110 Repair, as sewn-together

edges

112 A in French

113 Excoriate

114 Queens’ __ Field

115 Opposite of commends 121 Choir voice

122 Conservative foe, in the

U.K.

123 Suddenly paid attention 124 “Yo te __” 125 Stereotypical angst

sufferer

126 Wears slowly 127 High-tech workers 128 Gymnast’s goal

DOWN

1 Adjust, as car wheels 2 Category 3 Cosmetician Lauder 4 African menaces 5 Orthopedic surgery targets, initially

6 Kid’s cry

7 For face value 8 Longtime “The Avengers” comics artist Buscema 9 Pressure lead-in

10 Nth degree 11 Post-OR area 12 Affectations 13 Perchance, old-style 14 Hour in a pilot’s announcement 15 Response to sad news 16 Hebrew for “head”

17 “__ Loves You”: Beatles hit

20 Annual Jan. speech, in Twitter hashtags

24 Ate

25 Bog 30 Ecuadoran gold region 32 Holy scrolls

33 Emailed a dupe to 34 Bang-up

35 “For shame!”

36 Outer: Pref. 39 Deerskin attire 41 Aspirations 42 Proficiency determiners 43 1992-’93 NBA Rookie of the Year

44 Slight, as a chance 45 Architect Saarinen 46 Attendance count 47 Penn, e.g.: Abbr. 48 Aching to a larger degree 50 Birds-feather link 52 Staff builders 54 Dancer who played a scarecrow

56 Not yet on the sched. 57 Quintet

58 Capt.’s inferiors

62 Fed. fiscal agency 66 Acquire

67 1966 Michael Caine title role

69 Aloof

70 Group of eight

71 Wise start?

72 Loot

73 2006 Dunst title role 75 Big name in electric cars 77 Soldier’s helmet 78 R&B vocalist India.__ 79 “Bill & __ Excellent

Adventure”

80 ‘50s political initials 82 Self-destruction 85 Charles River sch. 87 Like TV’s “Supernatural,” e.g.

88 Mother of the Titans 89 Former Fords

93 Harem room

94 “60 Minutes” network 96 Antarctic features 98 Expert in futures? 102 252 wine gallons 103 Unwanted workers 104 Detox program

106 Berne’s river

107 Fifth-century bishop in

Ireland, familiarly 108 Most crosswords have

one

109 Determined about 110 Upset and then some 111 Photographer Dora who had a relationship with Picasso 113 Cottontail’s tail

114 One of six hidden in this puzzle, each sitting on an apt location 116 Certain corp. takeover 117 Airport near Tel Aviv 118 Go after, in a way 119 Surg. sites

120 Ike’s WWII arena