Crossword Puzzle Los Angeles Times

‘The Irreverent Grammarian’

ACROSS 1 Repetitive geometric patterns 9 Collinsworth with many Sports Emmys

13 Showed openly

18 Ricky Martin’s birthplace

20 Use a hammock

21 Other side

22 Confident opinion piece?

24 Approach evening 25 Eligibility factors

26 Most in need of water

27 Where Brazil took Olympic soccer gold

29 Concert finale?

30 Pitcher’s problem

34 Ammonia and water?

37 Get more precipitous

39 Regret

40 Track event

41 Draw back

44 Aveeno competitor

45 Mark of shame

48 Hot tub feature

49 Overlap in a photo lab?

53 Writer Deighton

55 Remark that hurts

56 Track winnings

57 Ambulance gp.

58 Org. with no “L” in its name, ironically 61 Brings down 62 Disney film starring Auli’i Cravalho 64 Cell pic 66 Author Dinesen 67 Adam? 70 E-commerce icon 71 Officially rebukes 73 Pride group 74 Focus of much TV drama 75 Saint-Tropez summer 76 Title like Bugs Bunny’s “Hare Trigger” 77 Harbor sights 79 Macbeth and Macduff 80 Handheld amp? 81 Truce that’s barely holding? 84 Olympic contact sport 87 Ad rep’s links 89 Adjust for pitch 90 Souse’s woe 91 Single section 92 Single 93 White Castle offerings 96 Consecutive jail terms? 101 “I can’t eat all this!” 105 British verb suffix 106 Always, poetically 107 Biblical voyage terminus 109 Bierce’s definition of it starts, “A temporary insanity curable by marriage” 110 Buddhist spiritual text 112 Will sections covering family members? 117 Spud 118 Sturdy trees 119 Not giving up 120 Iditarod array 121 Scheme

122 Bar for adults and children

DOWN

1 Felipe’s fire

2 Point (to) 3 Comes up 4 Many an Amazon dely. 5 Nome : yours :: Nice : à __ 6 Collages and such 7 Wasn’t true 8 Not often seen 9 Autumn adjective 10 Page one, generally 11 Part of 77-Down: Abbr. 12 Chest protector 13 Not on deck 14 Carrier with HQ in Tokyo 15 No longer playing 16 Corrected 17 Zhou or Qin 18 Palm gadgets, briefly 19 Neighbor of Taurus

23 Pro __

28 Mr. Right, presumably 31 Much of Micronesia’s makeup 32 Get a new tenant for 33 Indicate 35 Strong desire 36 Sign that may make you nervous 38 Joe-__ weed: herbal remedy 41 Building 42 Supposedly medicinal herb that sounds relevant to chiropractors 43 Restricted road part 45 Like some elegant gowns 46 “Whether __ nobler ... ”: Hamlet

47 “__ been there” 50 Adds muscle mass, with “up” 51 Honor roll stats 52 Family member 54 “The Green Mile” subj. 57 Slaughter of old baseball 58 Confined, in a way 59 Badger 60 Bears witness (to) 62 Personal bearing 63 Hosp. areas 64 Common ID 65 “Hit the road!” 67 Sugar in much corn syrup 68 Celt’s land 69 Actress Salazar of “Maze Runner” movies 72 Venerable letters in global news 74 Glass-aloft salutation 77 Smallest Canadian prov. 78 Place to stay 79 Belief

80 Con __: tempo marking 81 Many a freshman 82 Sporty VW 83 Designer Gernreich 84 Gavel wielders 85 Extraordinary 86 Unlikely banquet setting 88 Wrong 93 Legal tender substitute 94 Target of suburban cleanups 95 Respectful gesture 97 Approaches 98 Negotiations 99 Expunge 100 D.C. athlete

102 28-Down’s opposite 103 Kitchen equipment 104 Proficiency determiner 108 Shore bird 111 Like two-thirds of Austria’s flag 113 Dominique’s thirst quencher

114 15-season show whose final episode was “Immortality” 115 Driving need: Abbr. 116 Propose, in a way