LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD EDITED BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS BY PAM AMICK KLAWITTER

SEEING PROGRESS

ACROSS

1 Playground game

with hoops

6 Blobby sci-fi villain 11 Biker’s protective

wear

19 In the know 20 Fitness motto

starter

21 Removes faded

flowers from

22 Fit

24 Brand with a

Jumpman logo 25 Regret

26 School near

Windsor

27 Stiles of “Whose

Line Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a

brainstorm

34 A, to Beethoven 36 Fair

37 Formal talk

39 Deer sir

43 Droid from Naboo,

familiarly

46 Volume unit

48 Go inside

50 Long, long tail? 51 Start of a hopeful

chant

55 Tower engineer 57 Simone’s state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be

62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed

66 Like some fried

food

68 Letters on a

bathroom tube 69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org. 75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet

is often demanded

Puzzle answers, 7C 78 81 84 85 86 88 92 93 95 96 97 99 101 103 105 111 113 115 116 117 119 123 124 125 126 127 128

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Cut of the loot River past Logroño It’s raised at a circus Obligation Many surfers Ignore mistakes, say

Letters on a GI’s letters Absorb, as a spill Twitter rampage Hale-Bopp, for one Alphabetically first V8 ingredient Yawning cause Place to make a rial deal Some tributes Disney theme park Part of many a plot Bristol bye-bye Bit of politeness from a hat-tipper That guy, to Guy Subject of many a watch Family film feature Enthusiastic to a fault

Elicit a chuckle A detective may act on one Spoofs Minibike kin __ music

DOWN

Clues for DNA analysis Accept the blame Wild party

“No seats” sign Job listing abbr. “Precisely like this” “Take __ at it” Bingo cousin Marcel Marceau clown persona Snacked 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21

23 27 30 31 32 33 35 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 49 52 53 54

56 60

Princess with cinnamon-bun locks

Not kidding Asleep in Eng. class? Cause of sticker shock at the florist? They may be unsung

“CSI” actor George Old food label figs. I-9 ID Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g.

MIT offerings Boxing div. Suspects Jordanian queen dowager José’s hand

A light bulb may symbolize one “It’s clear now” Multi-lingual Irish singer

First golfing U.S. president Pulitzer-winning author James __ standard Bowl, say

Was highly regarded Formal wear item 1983 Indy 500 champ Tom Fancy moldings Throw very hard Berkshire racecourse Deadlocked Alleged creation of Buffalo’s Anchor Bar

Wray of “King Kong”

Herd mentality output? 64 65 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 77 78 79 80 82 83 87 89 90 91 94 98 100 101 102 104 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 114 117 118 119 120 121 122

Golfer’s gouge Pasta restaurant closing?

RPI and NIH Cards, for short Tiberius’ tongue Blessed __ Casual Friday fabric Musical workout, at times Singer’s perfect pitch, say

“... chips-down” link “Ciao” Swedish auto

Bit of optimism Lotion additive Fuzzy memory One taking a class over

Juice with a lizard logo Picard’s counselor Jon of “Mad Men” Checkout action Stamps Figure with a cape __ kit: Ancestry. com item Signed off on Speechless player Like morning fields Stimulate Memory miscue Pass-rushing group, briefly Prevention amount Strength Inventing middle name

Card holder, maybe Pub mugfuls Jazzy genre Yokohama yes Omelet filler 70-Down trio opener

Bright students’ org. “How obvious”

NEW CDS

“Detroit Stories,” Alice Cooper “That’s Life,” Willie Nelson “Life Support,” Madison Beer “For Those That Wish to Exist,”

Architects

“The Best Is Yet To Come,” Bonnie Tyler

“Choices,” Lucy Spraggan

“The Croods: A New Age.” “Last Call.” “Redemption Day.”

“Silk Road.”

“The Last Vermeer.” “Wrong Turn: The Foundation.”