Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword
ACROSS
1 Balls and some apples
6 “Bicycle Thieves”
director Vittorio 12 Cleopatra’s killer 15 Hindu epic hero
19 Wanting words 20 Spots for spectacles
21 Lobbying gp. 22 Airline whose name
means “to the skies” 23 *Band aide
25 Stuck playing a familiar role
27 Pacific current
28 Top drawers? 30 Incomplete body of
art
31 Budgetary figures 34 *Period after a crash,
perhaps
36 Wood cutter
39 Do another hitch 40 Time VIPS
42 Burglar’s take 43 *Figure in many Monty Python routines
47 __ mentality
48 Ones using mixers,
for short
51 Former Sony brand 52 Afghanistan neighbor 53 Saucer, briefly
55 “Hey, that’s great!” 58 Animal shelter 59 “Family Circus” creator Bil
60 *Figurative place for
deferred options 62 “Give me a break!” 64 MLB’S “Splendid
Splinter” Williams 66 Phi follower
67 Staggers
68 *Airbags in cars, e.g. 73 “Bless you” evoker
76 “That feels good” 77 Rum __ Tugger:
“Cats” role
78 Making a big deal
out of
82 *Hoops buzzer-beater, for one
85 Files in shop class 88 Emulate a frigatebird 89 “Godzilla” franchise co-creator Tomoyuki __ 90 LAX posting
91 Job safety org. 92 Eclectic magazine 93 Cephalopod’s discharge
94 “__L”: “Bye for now” 96 *Mall rarity on Black
Friday
100 Pained expression
102 Bank account ID
103 Very wide shoe
104 Pink Floyd’s Barrett
105 *Nightly barracks
routine
108 Biometric security
procedure
112 Mtge. issuer
113 Like some eaves in
winter
115 Pharaoh depicted on
the Sphinx
119 Capital east of New many
Delhi
121 Wimbledon category, and a hint to the answers to starred short clues
124 Gillette blade
125 Cool, like a cat
126 Crib outfit
127 Gaming rookies
128 Back in the day
129 Holiday song syllables
130 Lipton rival
131 Forum garments
DOWN
1 Barb
2 Base runner?
3 Oz traveler
4 Welcome at the door 5 Fight souvenirs 6 Hammarskjöld of the
U.N.
7 Historical period 8 “Sonic” consoles
9 Like krypton and
xenon
10 Don’t get
gger: 11 Piedmont bubbly 12 Likely will, after “is”
13 “Oh yeah?”
14 Angel dust, briefly 15 Snap back
16 Cause to sweat
17 Vertical billiards shot 18 __ sax
24 Well-known
26 Julius’ cry to Marcus 29 ’60s activist gp. 32 Nobelist of 1903 and
1911
33 “William Tell,” e.g. 35 Big cheese
36 Rogaine target
37 No-frills font
38 “Holy Toledo!”
41 Beat handily 44 Florida coastal city or
its county 45 Red-and-white topper 46 Scornful look
47 Latte variant
48 Ready to eat
49 “An Innocent Man”
songwriter 50 Canon AE-1 et al., for
short
54 Cover for some superheroes
56 “We don’t have much
time!”
57 Stealthily nears, with
“on”
59 Mauna __
61 Modeler’s buy 63 Seller’s supply 65 Rachel Carson subject
69 Quick snooze 70 Family name in Chicago politics
71 Hubbub
72 Sounds of hesitation 73 Musical opening
74 Family group 75 Tarzan type
79 Little bits
80 Rival of Tonya 81 Devotion to Mammon, biblically 83 Come out of one’s
shell
84 Toy dog’s barks 86 Draws back 87 Philatelist’s buys 95 “What nerve!” 97 Dye-making compound
98 Insurance lizard 99 Old TV series with a
scuba-diving hero xwordeditor@aol.com; ©2017 Tribune Media Services Inc. 100 Guy who’s often out
101 Pac-12’s Bruins
102 Go downhill fast
105 Saddam’s party
106 Between, in Brest
107 Some bra features 109 Curly-coated cats
110 That is, to Cicero
111 Jar Jar Binks’ planet 112 Card game for three 114 “Let’s do it!”
116 Aggressively promote
117 Singer Mcentire
118 Latin “to be”
120 Devils org.
122 Lose power, as a
battery
123 Org. that makes
traffic stopss?tops?