San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

- Lend Me Your Ears! by Ricky Sirois

ACROSS

1 Kid around

5 Agcys.

9 “The Goonies” role

for Ke Huy Quan

13 Wind instrument?

18 Chapati flour

19 Former Ford div.

20 Discover, as a

solution

21 Organ __

22 Promo for a production at the Globe Theatre?

25 Cygnets’ parents

26 Comics unit

27 Proprietor

28 Image file type

30 Bobby honored at

Boston’s TD Garden

31 Pitch tents

33 Sign of impending

bad weather?

38 Scuba spot

39 Pup’s bark

41 Canadian prov.

42 Escarole kin

43 Doone of fiction

45 Crash site?

48 Madre’s sister

49 Essay by the author

of “The Martian”?

53 Country with the southernmo­st capital city in the Americas

55 “Yes __, Bob!”

56 Rich dessert

57 Fall loosely

58 Memorizes

60 Tennis do-over

61 “We’ve all __ there” 62 Milky birthstone

66 “Crikey!”

67 Jewelry displayed next to keychains and fridge magnets?

72 “No seats” sign

73 Bygone depilatory

brand

75 GPS lines

76 Chinese tea

77 “Whichever”

79 Bit the dust

81 Invents, as a word

83 Taurasi who was the first WNBA player to score more than 9,000 points

84 Regular expense for

an employer

87 Polish for posh light

fixtures?

90 Taking after

91 Shoe reinforcem­ent

93 Parsonage

94 Jibes

96 French masculine

pronoun

97 Winter Games gp.

98 Quaint contractio­n

102 School friends in

Troy, New York?

107 Angular abode

109 __ World Service: internatio­nal news org. based in London

110 Oil field apparatus

111 “Bridesmaid­s” actor

Chris

113 Wears

114 Expansive 116 Soreness after a long day working at Sotheby’s?

120 Room brightener­s

121 Home of the southeast route to Everest

122 Pixar clownfish

123 NBA legend Bryant

124 Home of the northeast route to Everest

125 Dutch cheese

126 Tiny particle

127 Wet septet

DOWN

1 Fforde who writes the “Thursday Next” mystery novels

2 Hydrocarbo­n gas

3 Position

4 Gamble (on)

5 Sounds of

meditation

6 Bank’s takeback

7 Lost intimacy, say

8 Negligible

9 Quick swim

10 The Hawks, on

scoreboard­s

11 Head-scratcher

12 Harmon of “Rizzoli &

Isles”

13 LP successors

14 [Scratches head]

15 Two-time Best Director Oscar winner Alejandro González __

16 Liberia’s capital 17 Triage ctrs.

20 Protagonis­t

23 Furniture wood

24 Sleep cycle letters

29 Allowed to graze

32 Funeral rite pile

34 __ bar

35 Euro pop?

36 Land

37 Austin __: Tennessee

university

40 Singer DiFranco

44 Berlin Olympics star

Jesse

45 Part of an emergency

warning system

46 Frilly underskirt

47 Martin Van __

49 Narnia lion

50 Female kin

51 Male mallard

52 Flag bearers

54 Cable TV’s Nat __

Wild

57 Agnus __

59 Player who pouts

after a rout

61 __ new

63 “As if!”

64 Place for matches

65 “I speak for the trees” Seuss character

68 Practical

69 Zoo doc

70 Cologne’s river

71 Heads and tails

74 La Brea abundance

78 Mustang’s prints?

80 “Completely,”

casually 81 Committee leader

82 Like some

chocolate

84 Jack of early talk TV

85 Ninth grade math

course, often

86 Crafty street art

87 “Professor Plum, in the library, with the candlestic­k” board game

88 Southeast Asian

language

89 Peru native

92 Troubled greatly

95 Get away from it

all

99 Nevada’s secondmost populous county

100Pond protozoan

101 Has a feeling

103 “Big Little Lies”

novelist Moriarty

104 More than simmer

105 Asparagus-like vegetable in some miso soup recipes

106 Disco legend

Summer

108 Govt. mortgage

insurer

112 Many a helpful

video, for short

114 Letters on a lunch

menu

115 “Spring forward”

letters

117 Bk. reviewer?

118 Flat cap

119 __-com

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