L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Defeat

4 Miniature vehicle that

uses a remote, briefly 9 1956 hot spot 13 Seafarer’s direction 17 Biker’s ride

18 “__ roll!”

19 Cavalry weapon 20 Provide an address 21 *Poet who influenced T.S.

Eliot

23 Hold-up man?

24 Brought down 25 *Flattering words before

a request

26 *’90s nickname for pop’s

Mel C

28 Regarding

29 Cut

31 *Pre-TV performance

genre involving arias 32 Of course, in Cannes 35 Swerved at sea

37 “Sister Act” role

38 Fa follower

39 Terminus

40 To boot

42 Seriously outrun on the

track

43 Price-qualifying word 44 Packaging meas.

45 Bath tissue packaging

word

46 Santa Monica landmark 48 Class assignment 50 *Pancake order 54 Baker’s dozen?

56 ‘50s TV innovation 60 *Fish that doesn’t taste

like its name suggests 61 Numbered work 62 “Fantastic Four” villain,

briefly

63 Brown brew

64 Row of seats

65 Joltless joe?

67 AFL-__

68 GOP org.

69 Unidentified flying radar

blips

71 Salsa order

72 *Killjoy, in modern lingo 75 It may take a licking 76 Went down

77 *Kraft offering, casually 78 Old Turkish title 80 Blubber

81 Hip

82 Stuns

85 Common URL ending 86 Spot for suds

87 Very little

89 Twin, say

92 Here, in Jalisco

93 “As __ to breathe were

life!”: Tennyson

94 Silently understood 96 “Encore!”

98 *Sushi fish

101 Formally surrender 103 Novelist Waugh

104 *Fruity fountain offering 106 *Drywall material 109 Busy

110 “101 Dalmatians”

protagonist

111 *Dessert literally represented in six pairs of answers to the starred clues 112 Soda measure

113 Solo

114 “The Jungle Book” wolf 115 “M*A*S*H” set piece 116 Highlands miss

117 Arguments

118 Fresh

119 Blasting stuff

DOWN

1 1992 baseball biopic 2 Enters slowly

3 Like many Pixar movies 4 Kelly of morning TV 5 “Let’s go!”

6 BYU team nickname 7 Make part of a larger

state

8 “To Kill a Mockingbird”

recluse Boo __

9 Course for H.S. exam

takers

10 Empty, as a U-Haul 11 Digital greeting

12 Zing

13 “Sound of Music” name 14 Least distinct

15 Was humiliated 16 Handed out fresh cards 19 Head for Vegas? 20 Director Welles 22 Presently, quaintly 27 Letter closer 30 Destructive “Doctor Who”

creature

33 “Push It” hip-hop trio 34 Tennyson work

36 Target of some Bob Dylan

songs

41 Birthstone after sapphire 43 Cribbage pieces 44 Long-distance swimmer

Diana

45 MLB player, e.g. 47 Trapped, in a way 49 Scottie in Hitchcock’s

“Vertigo,” for example 50 Concrete hunks 51 Spartan serf

52 __-3 fatty acids

53 Pull behind

54 Greener Living org. 55 Hearty laugh

57 Conveyed

58 Yearns (for)

59 Run from a stage?

61 Med. condition with

repetitive behavior

62 Old Sony CD player 66 Lodge member 67 Anderson Cooper’s

network

70 Little devils

71 Polite address

73 Mayim Bialik alma mater 74 Voluminous ref.

76 Has a mediocre round ...

for a pro

77 Copperfield field 79 Neutral vowel symbol 80 Tampa Bay NFLer 82 Shipping document 83 South Pacific region 84 Waldorf salad morsels 86 Speaks badly of 88 Stereotypical ingenue

facial feature

89 Beyoncé, since 2002 90 “S’pose so”

91 “Waiting for Godot”

playwright

93 Cosmetics liquid

94 Up to this point,

informally

95 Model 3 autos 97 “Walking in Memphis”

singer Cohn

99 Cuts with a beam 100 Ohno on skates

102 Bangladesh capital 105 Low digit

107 Snaky swimmers 108 Cafeteria fixture