LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Wii or Xbox
aficionado 6 Tantalizes
12 Mop & __
15 Persian Gulf capital 19 Moby Dick, e.g. 20 Hint at, with “to” 21 Long time 22 Unknown author, for
short
23 Cherries jubilee? 25 Area that separates a nave from a sanctuary
27 Nixed, at NASA 28 Make less strict 29 Areas of human
development 30 “Macarena” band __
del Río
31 Topped, in a way 34 French possessive
pronoun
35 “I mean a different cereal box mascot!”?
37 Actor Holbrook 38 Swill
40 Warn with a horn 42 Brown in the kitchen 43 Spring flower 45 India’s smallest
state
47 “Trinity” novelist
Leon
49 Ships with
staterooms 52 Headline after the IT department fixes a bug on Hulu? 57 “Law & Order: SVU”
actor
58 All over the place 59 Headliner
61 Merrie __ England 62 Hold on to 65 Comedian Silverman 68 Scrutinized
70 All __ sudden 71 Tipped off
73 Neck parts
75 Sea nymph of Greek
mythology
77 Junior
78 Roof with removable
panels
80 Defensive trenches 82 Birch family trees 83 Check mark 85 Reggae great Peter 87 Plain
89 Sailing
90 Beer brewed by the
Royal Family? 96 Security system
component 99 Manitoba First
Nations people
100 __ trip
101 North Carolina
college town
102 Crook
104 “Yeah, right!”
106 Tight-fitting
109 Former owner of
Virgin Records
110 Where NHLers serve
penalty time?
113 Game with
matchsticks
115 Fruit jam in Sacher
tortes
117 Japanese IT services
giant
118 Mila of “Bad Moms” 119 Useless, batterywise
121 Small fruit pie
122 Knight spot?
124 Wading bird that a girl can really look up to?
128 River in Tuscany
129 Before, in ballads 130 Changed into
131 Battery terminal
132 “Oh, shoot”
133 Leb. neighbor
134 “... if you know
what’s good for you!”
135 Repairs
DOWN
1 Hudson Riv.
crossing 2 Sushi-grade tuna 3 Official flower of two
Southern states
4 __ grease
5 Rules
6 Schoolyard game 7 Dresden’s river 8 Margaret Atwood’s
“__ Grace”
9 Nightly show with
free admission 10 Beats by a whisker 11 “Catch my drift?” 12 Really bug
13 Golfer Ochoa 14 Winning steadily 15 Some govt. lawyers 16 Dolly the sheep,
sitting all by herself?
17 Climb aboard 18 Nasty anagram 24 Yule tune
26 Tucci’s “Road to
Perdition” role 29 Lets loose 31 Gambler’s marker 32 Almost unique 33 Religious doctrine
36 “Pagliacci” clown 39 Audre Lorde and Lord
Byron, e.g.
41 NHL great Bobby 44 Ink mishap
46 Like most of the
world’s people 48 Make full
50 Colorful timber tree 51 Places
53 Travis of country 54 “BoJack Horseman”
voice actor Will 55 “Get lost!”
56 BLT spread
60 Car manufacturer’s
woe
62 Many dreadlocks
wearers
63 Plaza Hotel girl 64 Cheap perfume? 66 Mil. mail drop 67 Fling with force 69 Street of mystery 72 Way in
74 __ whisper
76 Wise words
79 Tiny fraction of a
min.
81 Catches
84 Golean cereal maker 86 Hound
88 Massey of old films 91 French article 92 Sven of “Frozen,” for
one
93 Kind of microscope 94 Dallas quarterback
after Bledsoe
95 Cross mood 97 Farmyard noises 98 Picture puzzles
103 Fancy duds
105 Intense
107 Until
108 “Gilmore Girls”
actress Lauren
110 Early Peruvian
111 India’s first prime
minister
112 Compound in
fireworks
114 Taj __
116 Joliot-Curie who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry
120 Pols from blue
states, usually
123 Brillo rival
124 “Succession”
network
125 Food Network host
Drummond
126 Out of the
ordinary
127 Early video game
letters