L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD Triple play

ACROSS

1 Wii or Xbox aficionado 6 Tantalizes

12 Mop & __

15 Persian Gulf capital 19 Moby Dick, e.g.

20 Hint at, with “to”

21 Long time

22 Unknown author, for

short

23 Cherries jubilee?

25 Area that separates a

nave from a sanctuary 27 Nixed, at NASA

28 Make less strict

29 Areas of human

development 30 “Macarena” band __ del

Río

31 Topped, in a way 34 French possessive

pronoun

35 “I mean a different cereal

box mascot!”?

37 Actor Holbrook

38 Swill

40 Warn with a horn 42 Brown in the kitchen 43 Spring flower

45 India’s smallest state 47 “Trinity” novelist Leon 49 Ships with staterooms 52 Headline after the IT department fixes a bug on Hulu?

57 “Law & Order: SVU” actor 58 All over the place 59 Headliner

61 Merrie __ England 62 Hold on to

65 Comedian Silverman 68 Scrutinized

70 All __ sudden

71 Tipped off

73 Neck parts

75 Sea nymph of Greek

mythology

77 Junior

78 Roof with removable

panels

80 Defensive trenches 82 Birch family trees 83 Check mark

85 Reggae great Peter 87 Plain

89 Sailing

90 Beer brewed by the Royal

Family?

96 Security system

component

99 Manitoba First Nations

people

100 __ trip

101 North Carolina college

town

102 Crook

104 “Yeah, right!”

106 Tight-fitting

109 Former owner of Virgin

Records

110 Where Nhlers serve

penalty time?

113 Game with matchsticks 115 Fruit jam in Sacher tortes 117 Japanese IT services

giant

118 Mila of “Bad Moms” 119 Useless, batterywise 121 Small fruit pie

122 Knight spot?

124 Wading bird that a girl

can really look up to? 128 River in Tuscany 129 Before, in ballads 130 Changed into

131 Battery terminal 132 “Oh, shoot”

133 Leb. neighbor

134 “... if you know what’s

good for you!”

135 Repairs

DOWN

1 Hudson Riv. crossing 2 Sushi-grade tuna 3 Official flower of two

Southern states

4 __ grease

5 Rules

6 Schoolyard game 7 Dresden’s river 8 Margaret Atwood’s “__

Grace”

9 Nightly show with free

admission

10 Beats by a whisker 11 “Catch my drift?” 12 Really bug

13 Golfer Ochoa 14 Winning steadily 15 Some govt. lawyers 16 Dolly the sheep, sitting all

by herself?

17 Climb aboard

18 Nasty anagram

24 Yule tune

26 Tucci’s “Road to Perdition”

role

29 Lets loose

31 Gambler’s marker 32 Almost unique 33 Religious doctrine 36 “Pagliacci” clown 39 Audre Lorde and Lord

Byron, e.g.

41 NHL great Bobby

44 Ink mishap

46 Like most of the world’s

people

48 Make full

50 Colorful timber tree 51 Places

53 Travis of country 54 “Bojack Horseman” voice

actor Will

55 “Get lost!”

56 BLT spread

60 Car manufacturer’s woe 62 Many dreadlocks wearers 63 Plaza Hotel girl

64 Cheap perfume?

66 Mil. mail drop

67 Fling with force

69 Street of mystery

72 Way in

74 __ whisper 76 Wise words

79 Tiny fraction of a min. 81 Catches

84 Golean cereal maker 86 Hound

88 Massey of old films 91 French article

92 Sven of “Frozen,” for one 93 Kind of microscope 94 Dallas quarterback after

Bledsoe

95 Cross mood 97 Farmyard noises 98 Picture puzzles

103 Fancy duds

105 Intense

107 Until

108 “Gilmore Girls” actress

Lauren

110 Early Peruvian

111 India’s first prime

minister

112 Compound in fireworks 114 Taj __

116 Joliot-curie who won a

Nobel Prize in chemistry 120 Pols from blue states,

usually

123 Brillo rival

124 “Succession” network 125 Food Network host

Drummond

126 Out of the ordinary 127 Early video game letters