LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
1 Jelly Roll Morton genre 8 Benjamin
13 Kind of manner
20 Repertoire
21 Riveting WWII icon
22 Volatile solvent
23 Irish region named for a literary nobleman?
25 Vehicle in a pit
26 Works with purls
27 Easy comparison
28 Heartache
30 “Star Wars” antagonist 31 Commiseration at a cookout?
35 Inquire
38 Advance with determination 40 “The Purloined Letter” author
41 Cream additive
42 __-jongg
45 Normandy city
46 Bro, for one
48 Spent
49 Bouquets
51 Sham indignation?
56 San Juan __: California mission city 59 Athlete-turned-sportscaster Rashad
60 “Weeds” law org.
61 Word with rule or show 62 Wears down
65 USG successor
66 “It’s __ a while”
67 Excited cry from a gemologist?
71 Short rules?
74 Female lobster
75 Wells’ island doctor
76 Degrade
80 Junior Olympic Games org. 81 __ Tranquility
83 Feature of much commercial maple syrup
85 Dilemma presented by a suspicious peace offering? 89 “Yeah, right!”
90 Ho-hum feeling
91 India is home to a plurality of its employees
92 __ Victoria
94 Remote needs
95 “Do-Re-Mi” critter
96 Three Kingdoms Chinese
state
99 Trading post visitors
103 Nutrition fig.
104 Young farm animals’ taxi
company?
106 Radio switch
110 Middle Jackson sister
ACROSS
111 Uzbekistan, once: Abbr.
112 Farm song letters 113 Coup member? 116 Cues from the Miracles’ lead singer?
121 Loom power source
122 Whiteplumed heron
123 Hot air
124 Gave the
okay
125 Framing
supports 126 Night
flights
DOWN 1 Spaces for spices 2 Rice-__ 3 Astronaut’s apparel 4 5, in 2.5 5 QB’s concerns 6 5, in 5/8, say 7 The past, in the past 8 Buster of old Hollywood 9 Game with strikers 10 Nittany Lions’ sch. 11 Jed Clampett’s find 12 Needle 13 Hispanic city area 14 Whist relative 15 Shill 16 Booyah or bouillabaisse 17 Games org. 18 CSI stuff 19 Poetic adverb 24 __ to go: eager, colloquially 29 On the facing pg. 31 Really good time 32 Block ending 33 Mozart’s “__ fan tutte” 34 Textbook segment
35 Refer (to)
36 Nighttime shindig 37 Ugandan neighbor
39 “The Plough and the Stars” playwright Sean
41 TV alien
42 Apple offerings
43 Depleted sea
44 Southwestern native
47 Song cry heard here, there and everywhere? 48 Furthermore
50 Golden touch king
51 “You __ out?”
52 Internet link
53 Sequence of online posts 54 Saturate
55 Nicole Kidman’s island birthplace
57 Try again
58 Playground crack?
63 That, to Tito
64 Classic Fender, for short
66 One way to get around town 68 Vincent van Gogh’s brother 69 Actress Lamarr
70 Harsh critic
71 Very violent, perhaps
72 Made
73 Mali neighbor
77 Río contents
78 Poet Teasdale
79 Cockney toast opener 81 __ lodge
82 “Good” day occurring once a yr. 84 “Okey-__!”
86 Snake
87 Declines
88 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
92 Skeptical
93 BOS posting
96 Rooster feature
97 Runs off to wed
98 Boston __
100 Wagered
101 Den furnishings
102 Jeanne d’Arc, par exemple 104 Reese’s output
105 Relieves
107 Rich, as tomato sauce
108 Dijon daughter
109 Exodus leader
110 It’s usually played by a star 112 “Yikes!”
113 Mark and Luke: Abbr.
114 “Deathtrap” playwright
Levin
115 Island garland
117 Co. heads
118 Okla. campus with a Prayer
Tower
119 6-Down is in it: Abbr.
120 Hot state