LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Wretched
7 Mount Rainier gateway
13 Hoops statistic 19 Taste
20 In favor of Mideast unity
21 Arty
22 The drivethrough diner scene that was cut became a __
24 Right after this 25 Fall garden? 26 Riverbank residue
27 Parisian season 28 Vote of support 29 What Jill has that Jack doesn’t? 30 Break
31 Stab
32 1956 title film monster
34 Smart
36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __
41 LP’s 33 1/3 44 Browsing annoyances 45 Wordless agreement
46 Sugary ending 47 Reduce
48 Long
50 Shot __: competitive event 51 Privileged people 53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __ 57 False front
63 Get into
64 What a stationary orrery part may represent 65 Clarifying Latin words
67 Grew dimmer 68 Sweetens, as yams
70 Iraqi currency 72 Modified for the better
74 Private
75 Barely sufficient 77 Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant 78 Surrealist German-French painter
79 Gazes fixedly 81 The casual quarterback made an __ 86 Expand
88 Bossy utterance 89 African capital on the 30th parallel
90 “It is a __ told by an idiot”: Macbeth 94 What chatty tongues do?
95 Poke fun at 96 Mrs., in Madrid 98 Apply a new hue to
99 A navel ring is a piercing one may __ 105 It has pipes and keys
106 Source of some overhead footage 107 Apple operating system
108 Hadrian’s defense
112 Follow (along) closely
113 “It totally happened!”
115 Memorable first name in soccer
116 Small racer
117 Sailing
118 Indicating stress 120 The fast-learning police cadet had the __
123 Most trifling
124 Fail to take seriously
125 Red-skinned root
126 Current events? 127 Soaked through 128 Demands and gets
DOWN
1 Following 2 Business end of an ax
3 “North and South” trilogy author John __ 4 Track contests 5 Bill’s partner 6 Confided in 7 Showing strain 8 One lining up for food?
9 Took care of the food
10 Strong speaker 11 Be resourceful 12 Prez on a penny 13 Feeling it after a workout
14 Lusters 15 Honorary title 16 Picnic pitcherful 17 NBA’s Steph Curry, frequently 18 Early photograph
20 Sea anemone, e.g.
23 Gives out
28 “__ of robins ... ”: Kilmer
33 Refrains from 35 The Eiger, for one
37 Secure, as a job
or a role
38 “Get __”: James Brown biopic 39 Choose at the polls
40 Shipping hazard 41 Bread-making grain
42 Locket, for one 43 Singer/actress
known as the “Queen of Pop” 49 Cause to become 50 Mae West’s “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted,” e.g. 51 Icelandic literary work
52 Sidelong glance 54 Consume 55 Kitty 56 Beethoven’s __ 58 Response to the sublime
59 Largest Englishspeaking country 60 Google operating system
61 Cook, as much county fair fare 62 Announcer Hall 66 Gauge on the dash
68 Opposite of trans 69 Hot temper 70 Inane 71 Lowdown 73 “Give __ minute” 76 Often “old” eccentric
77 Big deal
80 Like fireplace logs
82 Within
83 Plant stem joint 84 Final Four org. 85 Moriarty, to Holmes
87 __ longlegs 90 Cheat on one’s sweet, say 91 Freshened up, in a way
92 Slowpoke 93 Often titled stretch 95 Massaged 96 Excalibur, e.g. 97 Put back as it was
100 Not sensible 101 Pecorino __ cheese
102 __ Kingdom 103 Laughing
104 Its capital is Kigali
109 Gelatin garnish 110 “Not in the __” 111 Framework strips
114 Book after John
116 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle
119 Gift with an aloha
120 Brief afterthoughts
121 Metal source 122 Become more intense, as the
moon