l.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PuzzlE

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1 Take pieces from? 7 Applaud 11 Practice fighting 15 likely to evoke an “Eww!”

19 Big fan 20 Sword handle 21 Andrew Jackson carried one with a sword in it

22 Not just eat 23 Marie Curie has two of them

24 Tiny bit 25 Juan’s “yesterday” 26 Grandson of Eve 27 Spirited style 28 Disney film set in Polynesia 30 Amphetamines, e.g.

32 Petit four purveyor 35 West Coast ZIP starter

36 Wore (away) 37 Econ. indicator 39 Alcohol type 40 Braided Jewish bread

42 Julia louis-Dreyfus’ eleven 44 Deutsche darling 46 lab dish eponym 47 It was inspired by Sunshine Hydrox cookies

48 Not quite circular 49 Dangerous snake 51 Hebrew winter month 53 finishes

56 Ill will 59 Something you don’t see everyday 61 Derby favorite, say 63 Black-and-white 65 Get some rays 66 Neighbor of Mex. 67 Rehab symptoms, briefly

70 Where Tennyson’s “light brigade” charged 71 Noble Brit 73 Cloud site

74 Very long time 75 Gift-wrapping aid 76 Asset in a crisis 79 Trite saying 81 Happened to 82 use just one water ski 86 Hamlet’s first option 87 letter abbr. 89 1986 u.S. Open champ Raymond __ 91 Over with 92 Dupes 94 Organic fertilizer 96 Domestic platforms

99 Not at all glossy 101 Actor Douglas and quarterback Cousins 102 Snowboarder White

103 Cigar discard 104 latin lover’s assertion 105 Horse color

107 Playground game with a rope and a pole 110 Wallabies and wombats 113 Bread source 114 Not much 117 Soft cheese 118 Notice 119 Sushi seaweed 120 Ready to play 122 Over again 123 Silhouetted road sign animal 124 Soon, long ago 125 Succumbs to static 126 Impertinence 127 Span. miss 128 Warp 129 Becomes aware of

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1 Jutland native 2 false god 3 Tearjerker’s quality? 4 large venue 5 Brother, e.g.: Abbr. 6 Title assassin in a 2005 Pitt-Jolie film 7 Mysterious foliage-sprouting proclivity? 8 Model train giant 9 Vow locale

10 Org. concerned with students 11 Vocal improv 12 Remit with goatskin?

13 Persistent weakness 14 Show again 15 Notion 16 Vehicle for transporting bark spice? 17 Difficult to solve 18 Words of assent 29 Rapper Ice Cube’s first name 30 Senator’s place 31 lascivious look 33 Gumshoe 34 Spanish airline 37 Seize, slangily 38 Met celebrity 41 Donkey song? 43 Come across 45 Radar screen spot 46 Sheet material 47 Greek victim of the furies

50 Glen cousin 52 Shame 54 Writing __ 55 legal suspension 57 Desert plants 58 Online stock transactions 60 Moving memoir subject? 62 Nordic toast 64 Get ready to eat? 65 Western hero noted for his thoughtfulness? 67 Card balance, say 68 Matador’s opponent 69 Tales of social climbers?

72 Move, in some ads 77 Gush

78 Pops, to baby 80 Essence 81 Short-term memory? 83 farmers market baked goods? 84 Change for a five 85 Netting 88 Ceramic dog, maybe?

90 “The Wreck of the Mary __” 93 Quechua is one of its official languages 95 Trading places: Abbr.

97 Text entries named for their traditional red color 98 Genetic letters 99 African snakes 100 Historic Nile excavation site 101 Roll or emperor 102 2000s Israeli leader Ariel 106 Slanted columns 108 Steak named for its shape

109 Virgil’s language 111 Stitches up 112 Heavenly harp 115 Kansas-born playwright 116 Hardy’s “Pure Woman faithfully Presented” 119 Pick up 121 Phillies’ div.