South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Often abbreviated reaction to information overload 12 Ukulele ridge 16 “Gotcha” sounds 19 Starter
20 Indian flatbread 21 Laser pointer
chaser
22 Altruism
23 Most of the 2010s 25 Span of a scale
with three sharps 26 That, in Madrid 27 Gucci of fashion 29 “Elements of
Algebra” author 30 “Don’t back down,
bro!”
32 Completely
different situation 36 Certain carton
components 39 Reunion attendees 40 Café freebie 41 “Don’t think so” 42 Nos. for alums 43 Comparative data
diagram
48 “The Misery Index”
network 51 Bulgarian’s neighbor 53 Type of diet that might replace potatoes with cauliflower
56 New Deal agcy. 57 “High Rollers”
co-host __ Lee 59 Grams
61 Alert on the road 63 __ in Charlie 64 “Play it cool” 66 Prefix with treat or
giving
67 Blow a fuse 69 Sellers of KAFFEREP cinnamon buns 70 Middle-earth ring
bearer 74 Following
75 Tokyo airport 77 Apple runs on it 78 Raggedy
80 Hot state
81 How three nurseryrhyme merchants went to sea 84 Trailer follower 85 Laker legend,
familiarly
86 Votes against 87 Soybeans served
in the pod
89 Gawk at
91 With 6-Down, Rudolph’s guiding light
92 Dad’s referral? 95 Boarding precedes
it: Abbr. 97 Penicillium, e.g. 99 Half a martial art 100 Kendrick with a
Pulitzer
102 On the lam
106 Résumé alert about an unfinished goal
112 Like a romantic
dinner, in Paris
113 Chef’s protection 114 Word with words or
chance
115 Org. with many
returns
117 Paris gal pal
118 Most sentimental 120 Total removals
125 Maiden name
preceder
126 __-Ball
127 “The Crocodile” of
early tennis
128 ID on many returns 129 Post
130 “Give me some gossip!” ... and a hint to this puzzle’s sets of circles, which affect four Across answers
DOWN
1 What Rickey Henderson often beat
2 Chinese for “black
dragon”
3 NIAID director 4 Luzon, for one:
Abbr.
5 JFK predecessor 6 See 91-Across 7 Thompson of
Marvel movies 8 Beat it
9 Night before
10 ___ Technica: tech
news website 11 Make drinkable, as
seawater 12 70-Across nephew 13 “Mr. __”: Rami
Malek drama 14 ORD posting 15 Zoom annoyance 16 Amtrak speedster 17 Sultan’s group 18 Intimidate, with
“down”
22 Identical
24 Foretell
28 Paris article 31 Trivia night settings 33 Flings
34 “That’s wrong __
many levels”
35 Like some
remedies 37 Hammer parts 38 “Ghost Story”
author Peter 43 Forbid
44 Flood shelter 45 23andMe discovery 46 “Thank the Lord!” 47 Got a move on 48 Instruction
49 “__ Holiday”: opening section of Copland’s “Rodeo” 50 First woman to be named Doctor of the Church, briefly 52 __ B’rith
54 Tory adversary 55 __ de’ Medici, first de facto Lord of Florence
58 Berry in a bowl 60 Garlic genus
62 Get plastered 65 Piedmont bubbly 66 Classic U.K. sports
cars
68 Prepare, as beans 71 Fett in “The
Mandalorian”
72 De __: again 73 Stain
76 Short on iron,
maybe
79 Serf of Sparta 82 Ruckus
83 Cap with a pompon 84 Convened in 88 Idea that spreads
in a culture
90 “First Lady of Song” 93 Entrance porch 94 Teen dystopian
novel narrator 96 Hanukkah top 98 Duchamp, for one 100 CD precursors
101 Lets out, say
103 Channel changer 104 Kind of pig that’s
not a pig
105 They can be tricky
to run into
106 Daybreaks
107 Foil relatives
108 Putting __
109 Designer Ashley 110 Like some
cornered kings
111 “You know the __” 116 90-Down’s improv 119 Just make, with
“out”
121 Good name, briefly 122 “Star Wars”
nickname
123 German “Alas!”
124 __ the line