L.A. Times Crossword
“ROCK ‘N’ ROLL” BY TOM PEPPER & ZHOUQIN BURNIKEL
ACROSS
1 Bugs 7 Flat-topped hills 12 Faux wood in a
fireplace
18 Pass by 19 Harding biopic 21 Chihuahua coin 22 Place for a rock 24 1984 Jeff Bridges film that begins with a UFO crash 25 Shorthand
system
26 Just
27 Place for a roll 29 Geometry
calculation 31 U.S. intel org. 33 “Trainwreck”
director Judd 34 Place for a rock 39 Carbon
compound 40 Short evening
wear?
43 Driver’s assignment: Abbr. 44 Microsoft Office default typeface until 2007 45 Ore-Ida side,
familiarly
47 Tech company with an exclamation point 49 Envelope abbr. 51 Burden
52 Take a break 55 Hulu alternative 56 Left high and dry 58 Place for a roll 61 __ as punch 62 Bring home 64 Shopping cart
count
65 Choice words? 66 Fit together, as
some dolls 69 Brobdingnagian 71 Barbecue fuel 73 Kung __ chicken 76 Booze
78 Bit attachment 80 Dave Barry
genre
84 Place for a rock 87 Natural ability 90 Mammal with more gray matter than a human 91 Caesar __ 92 Nabe in lower
Manhattan 93 Miami Heat
coach Spoelstra 94 Buy time 96 Australia’s national gemstone
98 In the midst of 100 Pub pintful
101 Orecchiette
shape
102 Asgard god
105 Place for a roll 108 Actress Jennifer in Capital One commercials
110 Letters after nus 111 “Othello” villain 112 Place for a Rock 116 Matching
118 Put in more
chips, say
122 Stretch with no
landmarks
123 Place for a roll 126 Firsthand
accounts
127 Fast and furious 128 Sharp kitchen
tool
129 Tons
130 Knobs on a pipe
organ
131 Respected ones
DOWN
1 Loch in hoax
photos 2 Tons
3 Strong wind
4/14/24 4 Word with
column or cord 5 Oregon’s oldest
city
6 Cha, chai, or
matcha
7 Bog down
8 2021 Marvel movie directed by Chloé Zhao 9 Most tender 10 “32 Flavors”
singer DiFranco 11 Bring into
alignment 12 Arrives at 13 Chess legend
Karpov 14 Milkshake insert 15 Meat common
in Greek cuisine 16 Shape of
sesame seeds 17 No longer there 20 Indian city with
a mausoleum 21 House channel 23 “Just think ... ” 28 Hairy Halloween
costume 30 Disgraced
energy company 32 Make a scene? 34 Swimmer’s woe 35 __ Pradesh:
Indian state 36 Fashionably
dated
37 “All in the
Family” spinoff 38 Short trips 40 Part of a magazine spread
41 Class clown 42 Some whiskey
drinks
46 Largest island in French Polynesia 48 Wall flowers,
perhaps
50 Wall or flower 53 Architect’s
detail, briefly 54 Muppet who
rarely says “I” 57 Port city south
of Kyiv
58 __ Lankan
rupee
59 Take heat from? 60 Japan’s largest
beermaker 63 Factor in sibling
rivalry, often 67 Costco rival,
familiarly 68 Bulky brass
instrument 70 Bridal bio word 72 Instrument for a
troubadour 73 Counterpart of
poetry
74 Place for a stent 75 Prized statuette 77 Sanders, for
one
79 “No Logo”
author Klein 81 Big picture? 82 Black swan of
ballet
83 Type in again 85 Rogue computer of scifi
86 Small amount 88 Hypocritical
sorts 89 Polynesian kingdom with more than 170 islands
92 Tortilla chip
topper
95 Adds, as paper
to a copier 97 Fish in some
omelets 99 Series of bad
takes
103 Appliances with
drums
104 Ancient Cuzco
dwellers
106 Not tricked by 107 Gave for a short
time
108 Italian city known for salami
109 Oldest of the
Pointer Sisters 112 Lombardy lake 113 Cartel founded
in Baghdad
114 Widely shared
post
115 Sweeties
117 Karaoke gear 119 Castaway’s
home
120 One who’s
forward-looking 121 Makes a
misstep
124 Interest rate
fig.
125 Safety gear for
ER workers