SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
BY JOHN-CLARK LEVIN, EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS
ACROSS
1 Talmud scholars
7 Always and forever 14 Test runs
20 Wide of the mark 21 Italian aperitif
22 “What a piece of work is a man” speaker
23 “The Mousetrap” playwright
25 Magazine sale
26 A, in braille
27 “The Westing Game” novelist Raskin
28 Fort Knox block
30 Press
31 Green Toyota
32 Fishy bagel topper 35 Turn down
38 Dry-spell relief 39 Non-neutral atoms 40 Really bothered 41 Objectives 42 Greyhound, e.g. 44 Former quarterback Tim
48 Dinner table question 52 Mimic
53 Spot for a Hindu bride’s nath
54 Winter sport where competitors wear spiked gloves
55 “Queer Eye” fashion expert France
56 Lassie, for one
59 NNW opposite 60 Camera option 61 Answered charges 63 Released early
64 Ikea task, and a task that can be applied to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle
68 Car care franchise that started as a muffler specialist
70 Recess
71 Beanies and berets 72 “That’ll be the day!” 75 Crossword heading 76 Club door requests 77 Jabot material
78 Deep sleep
79 “__ Wolf”: Shakira song 80 Colorful Galápagos bird 84 Puccini opera about an opera singer
87 Scrape (out)
88 Bird with a down-curved bill
89 “21” and “25” Grammy winner
90 USAF no-show 92 Egyptian fertility goddess
93 False fronts
95 Free rein
100 Rubbernecks
101 Some keg contents 102 “Gymnopédies” composer
103 84-Across solos 104 OB-GYNs, e.g.
107 Swindle
109 “You must be joking!” 113 Gimme courses 114 Possible to make out 115 Bring down a Giant, say
116 Mocking looks
117 Went viral on Twitter, say
118 Actress with the most Oscar nods
DOWN
1 __ receipts
2 Fictional movie in a real movie of the same name 3 Tantrum thrower 4 Baseball club
5 Comes into
6 Yalta conferee
7 Some flu symptoms 8 “Shucks”
9 Rival sch. of The Citadel 10 Mini-albums, briefly 11 Parcel out
12 Cliff’s edge
13 10-year event in the “Iliad”
14 “You don’t say” 15 Wicked cool
16 Itch
17 Freak out
18 “Hands off my waffle!” 19 Dutch painter of “Peasants Before an Inn” 24 Escape room find 29 Horace, for one 31 Saucer
32 __ old story 33 Overlook
34 Amazon worker? 35 Begins
36 Value system 37 Engagement breakers? 38 Heckle relentlessly 41 Shoptalk
42 Miyuki bracelet elements
43 Banquet dispenser 45 Heavily hyped
46 Ryan Hurst’s “Sons of Anarchy” role
47 Quack grass or crabgrass
49 Doesn’t pass 50 Protruding navel 51 Swordfish cut
56 Was in tents? 57 Spheres
58 IM giggle
60 Mars counterpart 61 Narrative writing 62 Soccer great Messi, to fans
63 “See ya!”
65 __ Flip!: Mattel card game
66 Excessive 67 Improvises vocally 68 Sailboat pole 69 Amazon gadget 73 Hike leisurely
74 Sean of “Will & Grace” 76 Variety
77 Reporter Lane of “Superman”
78 Musical closings 80 “Twilight” heroine 81 Catch some rays? 82 Drama honor 83 Spot for an irritating “driver”
85 Colorful marble 86 Feeling reported by astronauts viewing Earth from space
91 Fixate (on) 92 Animated film featuring a sloth named Sid
93 “Words __ me!”
94 Lies ahead
95 Latte art sites 96 “Ulalume” author’s middle name 97 Witherspoon with a book club
98 Uneven
99 More spruced-up 100 Selfish desire
103 Up to it
104 Hockey term derived from “decoy”
105 Agitate 106 Fitbit unit 108 Budget rental 110 “Delta of Venus” author Anaïs 111 Like postseason matchups before the end of the season: Abbr. 112 Old TV hookup