LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

“AMAZEBALLS*” BY ROBIN STEARS ACROSS

1 Takes the odds 5 Flop’s opposite 10 Anchored

16 Braying beast 19 Audition piece 20 1988 Summer

Olympics site 21 From C to C

22 __ Victor 23 *Convenient carrier 25 *Small, flat legume 27 Braille bits

28 Poet Pablo Neruda,

e.g.

30 “My treat” 31 Distinctive Rolls

Royce feature 34 Many a text writer 36 Hikes from the

center

37 Wilson of “Pitch

Perfect” movies 38 Heinz Field player 39 Rapid __ 41 Nickname for young

Skywalker 42 Ramshackle shelters 43 One way to get you 44 *Octal system 47 *Item found in a parlor 51 Like Fran Drescher’s

voice 52 Cheerleaders’

handfuls

56 Your cousin’s

81-Across, maybe 57 Plague critter 60 Pudding starch 61 Carne __

63 Subject of a Dean

Martin classic 64 *Pneumatic silo

declogger

66 “Your table’s ready”

gizmo

67 Chekov on “Star

Trek”

68 Directed

69 Last to arrive 70 French article 71 Proclaims 72 Passionate

74 *Fund for fun 77 *Path for a promising

young exec

81 See 56-Across 82 Fouls up, as plans 85 “The Crow” actress

Ling

86 “The Star-Spangled

Banner” quartet 89 “Les Misérables” girl 90 __ Ste. Marie

92 Prefix with centric 93 Barbaric 94 Worrisome engine

sound

95 Teatro __ Scala

96 Old copiers

98 Right on the map 99 *It covers the Batmobile 101 *Brie, e.g.

107 Ottoman bigwig 108 Cooling-off period? 109 City of NE Italy 110 Garbage hauler 111 B-day numbers 112 “Full House” surname 113 Award for “Mr.

Mercedes”

114 Lift one’s spirits?

1 “Phooey!”

2 Significant time 3 Bronze component 4 Tack room item

5 Ice __

6 Shade of green 7 What Indiana sought 8 “What did I tell you?” 9 Chopper

10 Calder pieces 11 Telescope eyepiece 12 Weasel relative 13 Pro follower 14 102-Down opposite 15 “__ Rosenkavalier” 16 Spots for sports 17 Trattoria entrée 18 Least extreme 24 Weevil’s target 26 Tied-under-the-chin

topper

29 Prefix with gram 31 Take the wrong way? 32 Sofer of soaps 33 Sacred Nile bird 34 Longtime “60

Minutes” reporter 35 Small price to pay 36 Backtalk

38 Sonic the Hedgehog

maker

39 “Mr. Citizen”

autobiographer 40 Regrets

42 Santa has a famous

one

45 Acclimatize

46 Art supporter? 47 Fashion first name 48 Pixel pattern 49 Secret stuff

50 Target rival 52 Worrywart, at times 53 Eye-fooling genre 54 Extraction sites 55 Golden or Walden

DOWN 57 Drink from a bowl 58 Spender of rials 59 Group of 13,

traditionally 60 Genealogy chart 61 Spaced out 62 Lustful deity 64 Portfolio listings 65 Wee

69 Rents

71 “Frozen” princess 72 Conviction

73 “Cast Away” setting 75 Fanatic

76 Anise liqueur 77 Dieter’s concern 78 Lie next to 79 Birdsong

80 Toy with a tail 82 Skeptic

83 Italian noble family 84 Budget bin record 86 Ramshackle

87 One taking a lot of

notes

88 Soothes

89 React to an awkward

moment

90 Military band

91 Bear witness 93 Queen lead guitarist

__ May

94 Track figure 96 Animal lovers’ org. 97 French city where William the Conqueror is buried 98 Italian smoker 100 Many an IKEA buy 102 14-Down opposite 103 Newton fruit

104 Green prefix

105 Sponge (up)

106 Woolly mama