LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Game Day by Lynn Lempel ACROSS
1 Interpretation
5 Left on board? 9 Smartphone array 13 Church reading 18 Falafel bread
19 Civil rights leader
Medgar
21 Vault
22 Submit for judging 23 Bind with a cord 24 Piece of history 25 Gumbo pod
26 Lines on GPS displays 27 Vague amount 28 Prompt to a Twister
player?
31 Over the speed limit 33 Glove material 34 Half-baked, as a plan 37 Impulse
38 Bursts
40 Former NBA star
Ming
42 Figs.
43 Correspond 45 Encouragement to a
Yahtzee player? 50 One in a dory 51 Biblical preposition 52 Dory’s companion 53 “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
co-star 54 Psychology 101
subject
55 Brief times, briefly 57 Coarse
59 Heavenly octet 61 Benchmark
63 “Salt Fat __ Heat”: Samin Nosrat cookbook
65 “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
co-star
67 D’backs, on a sports
ticker
68 Actor Alan who hosts the “Clear+Vivid” podcast
69 Sad request to one’s Hangman opponent? 72 Microwaves 76 “Summertime
Sadness” singer Lana __ Rey 78 Equally matched 79 Climate change sci. 80 Entertainment
industry grand slam, for short 81 Diminished
85 Vegas calculation 87 Arborist’s patient 89 Atmosphere
90 One way to think 91 Prosecco kin
93 Trim, perhaps 95 Originate
97 Advice to a checkers
player?
100 Connective tissue 101 Sports drink suffix 102 Sculling need
103 Botanist Gray and
actor Butterfield
104 Crown array
105 __ opener
108 Like the River
Shannon
111 Forced (on)
114 Prayer for a chess
player?
118 Damage
119 Geometry surface
121 “A __ technicality!” 122 Real doozies
123 Globetrotter’s need 124 Knuckle or knee
125 Prune, before drying 126 Singer Ronstadt
127 Turn over __ leaf
128 Some TVs
129 Fed. IDs
130 Over
131 Spill the beans
DOWN
1 Bug-hitting-thewindshield sound 2 Yamaha with a bench
seat
3 With 73-Down, assertion to one’s Scrabble opponent? 4 “Not gonna happen” 5 Read
6 1980 Olympics track
medalist Steve 7 Count (on)
8 The Jonas Brothers,
e.g. 9 In flight
10 Black tea
11 Sudden burst of
emotion
12 Quarrel
13 Woman on Argentina’s 100 peso
note
14 Bamboozles 15 Slanted 16 Spearheaded
17 “__ America”: 2020 miniseries about the ERA movement 20 Artist who works
with a chisel 28 On-call devices 29 Impetuous
30 French fashion giant 32 Priceless?
35 Like two 2015 Max
Scherzer games 36 Will of “Blue Bloods” 38 Thoughtful 39 Classical pianist Alice
Sara __ 41 Resting on
43 Sports stadium 44 Nikolai who wrote
“The Overcoat” 45 Italian fashion giant 46 __ pale ale
47 Do a slow burn 48 Allowing access 49 Charge, in a way 56 Philadelphia NFLer 58 Overturn
60 Chili scoop 62 Fabricated 64 Dedicate, as time 66 Strategic steps 70 First-aid dispenser 71 Opposite of sur 73 See 3-Down
74 Grace under fire 75 Spread around 77 Medieval Icelandic
collection
81 Hindu royalty 82 Give the slip 83 “Huh?”
84 Survey results, e.g. 86 Beachcombing
prize
88 Enter gingerly 92 Dries up
94 Strands in a lab 96 Wheel parts
98 Lots and lots
99 __ out: resolve
104 Attacks
106 Jazz saxophonist
Rollins
107 “Waiting for Lefty”
dramatist Clifford 109 TV Land fare
110 Agenda entries
111 Extended conflicts 112 Stand for
something?
113 Southern twang
115 Roadie’s vanload 116 Witticism
117 Pinkie-side arm
bone
119 Comfy loungewear 120 Lav
123 Napa Valley tub