Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword
Cereal Boxes
ACROSS
1 Hunk 5 Tortilla-wrapped
serving
11 Hardly a haymaker 14 Pulled up a chair 17 Whom Samwise accompanied to Rivendell
18 Backspace key, often 19 One who might err
on the safe side? 20 __ dixit: assertion
without proof
21 Add zing to
22 Berate
23 “Heavens!”
25 *Lids for a fancy
box?
27 *Easy order for a
mixologist
29 Zing
30 Donizetti aria “Regnava __ silenzio” 31 Bee bunch 33 Watergate figure with a radio talk show
34 Exude
36 Learn
37 Giant __, world’s
largest antelope 39 *Ceremonious choreography 42 *Lothario’s organ 46 Bearded blossom 47 G, in the key of C 48 Adjust, as a chronometer
49 Tat misreadable as
WOW
50 Honey
52 Tweaks
56 “Is this some kind of
__?”
58 New England cape 59 __ chi
61 Biting
62 “Good-bye, cruel
world!,” in Westerns 65 *Ring leaders 68 Worldwide anticrime
gp.
71 Rod’s partner 72 Author Deighton 73 Bench press muscle 76 Ethel on “I Love
Lucy”
77 Produce a steady
stream of 80 Words with remember or forget
82 Bon __: Comet rival 83 “__ the loneliest number” 85 “Argo” org.
87 Fine __
88 *Joe may come from one
91 *Moved like a crowd 95 Crease-resistant fabric
96 Estefan with Grammys 98 Consider to be 99 Steel, e.g.
101 Form opener
102 Key preposition 103 Boxer with feats of Clay? 106 *Significant other 110 Deep-rooted ... and what the uncircled letters of the answers to starred clues are?
113 Rank people? 114 Swab’s assent 116 Blink of an eye 117 D.C. pros 118 Cleo’s undoing 119 Fix, as a pump 120 Former Midwest territorial capital
121 Is for you 122 Steely __ 123 Airborne camera holders
124 Many a competition
DOWN
1 Bone to pick 2 Fictional turn-on 3 Smelly-sounding
German river? 4 Windfall
5 Wild
6 Smell __
7 Fugitive portrayer
before Ford 8 Believer’s suffix 9 Pots, cups, etc. 10 Prefix with -pod 11 Handled containers 12 Every which way 13 Fraternal initials 14 Leadfoot
15 Syrian president 16 Touchy
17 Bomb 20 Baseball unit with distinct halves 24 Musician with a Nobel Prize 26 Bread butts
28 The Who classic 32 Female in WWII 35 Boot from power 36 Heavenly topper 37 Original sinner 38 Fired up 39 Dexter’s wife in “Dexter”
40 Metal that’s pumped 41 __ effect 43 Alternate version, in scores
44 Farm connection 45 ER part: Abbr. 48 Word with debt or guilt
51 HBO rival 53 Beaver’s work 54 Victim of hot wings? 55 More classy 56 Bond or bonding follower
57 Delight
60 Dada daddy? 63 “Uncle” of old TV 64 Flagon filler
65 Risk
66 Peptic problem 67 Rain-__ gum 68 Apple computer 69 Nautilus captain 70 Like poison ivy 73 One who remembers old flames with fondness? 74 Shocked accusation 75 Outlay
78 Actor Pat of Batman films
79 NCAA’S Bruins 81 Broccoli __
83 LBJ’S antipoverty agcy.
84 “The Sound of Music” extra 86 Calculating snake? 89 Leads, as a band 90 “Family Ties” mom 91 Ancient Roman currency minter 92 Anger 93 Go-between 94 Bubbler 97 Gecko, for one 99 Dryer brand 100 Texas university in Beaumont
102 Fairy tale baddies 104 Café con __ 105 Thought 107 Campus area 108 Heavenly bear 109 “Monday Night Football” channel 111 Shade of green 112 Hogwarts librarian __ Pince
115 That thing in Tijuana