LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
“SEEING PROGRESS” By PAM AMICK KLAWITTER
ACROSS
1 Playground game with hoops
6 Blobby sci-fi villain
11 Biker’s protective wear
19 In the know 20 Fitness motto starter
21 Removes faded flowers from
22 Fit
24 Brand with a Jumpman logo 25 Regret
26 School near Windsor
27 Stiles of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a brainstorm
34 A, to Beethoven 36 Fair
37 Formal talk 39 Deer sir
43 Droid from Naboo, familiarly 46 Volume unit 48 Go inside 50 Long, long tail? 51 Start of a hopeful chant
55 Tower engineer 57 Simone’s state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be
62 “I, Claudius” role
63 Collapsed 66 Like some fried food
68 Letters on a bathroom tube 69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org.
75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet is often demanded
78 Cut of the loot 81 River past Logroño
84 It’s raised at a circus
85 Obligation 86 Many surfers 88 Ignore mistakes, say
92 Letters on a GI’s letters
93 Absorb, as a spill 95 Twitter rampage 96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first V8 ingredient 99 Yawning cause 101 Place to make a rial deal
103 Some tributes 105 Disney theme park
111 Part of many a plot
113 Bristol bye-bye 115 Bit of politeness from a hat-tipper 116 That guy, to Guy 117 Subject of many a watch
119 Family film feature
123 Enthusiastic to a fault
124 Elicit a chuckle 125 A detective may act on one
126 Spoofs
127 Minibike kin 128 __ music
DOWN
1 Clues for DNA analysis
2 Accept the blame 3 Wild party
4 “No seats” sign 5 Job listing abbr. 6 “Precisely like this”
7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin 9 Marcel Marceau clown persona 10 Snacked 11 Princess with cinnamon-bun locks
12 Not kidding 13 Asleep in Eng. class?
14 Cause of sticker shock at the florist? 15 They may be unsung
16 “CSI” actor George
17 Old food label figs.
18 I-9 ID 21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g.
23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div. 30 Suspects 31 Jordanian queen dowager
32 José’s hand
33 A light bulb may symbolize one 35 “It’s clear now” 38 Multi-lingual Irish singer
40 First golfing U.S. president 41 Pulitzer-winning author James
42 __ standard 43 Bowl, say
44 Was highly regarded
45 Formal wear item
46 1983 Indy 500 champ Tom 47 Fancy moldings 49 Throw very hard 52 Berkshire racecourse 53 Deadlocked 54 Alleged creation of Buffalo’s Anchor Bar
56 Wray of “King Kong”
60 Herd mentality output?
64 Golfer’s gouge 65 Pasta restaurant closing?
67 RPI and NIH 69 Cards, for short 70 Tiberius’ tongue 71 Blessed __ 72 Casual Friday fabric
73 Musical workout, at times 74 Singer’s perfect pitch, say
75 “... chips-down” link
77 “Ciao” 78 Swedish auto 79 Bit of optimism 80 Lotion additive 82 Fuzzy memory 83 One taking a class over
87 Juice with a lizard logo 89 Picard’s counselor
90 Jon of “Mad
Men”
91 Checkout action 94 Stamps 98 Figure with a cape
100 __ kit: Ancestry. com item
101 Signed off on 102 Speechless player
104 Like morning fields
106 Stimulate
107 Memory miscue
108 Pass-rushing group, briefly
109 Prevention amount
110 Strength
111 Inventing middle name 112 Card holder, maybe
114 Pub mugfuls
117 Jazzy genre
118 Yokohama yes 119 Omelet filler 120 70-Down trio opener
121 Bright students’ org.
122 “How obvious”