LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
10/29/23 ANSWERS FOUND UNDER HOROSCOPE
ACROSS
1 “The Name of the
Game” pop quartet 5 Driver’s lic. info 8 Nixed, at NASA 12 Back teeth 18 Adolescent 19 Concessions
purchase
20 Very, informally 21 Bright red liqueur 22 Date night, or a midgame show starring Beyoncé instead of the coach’s nephew’s garage band? 25 Stovetop piper
26 Still going 27 Cappuccino topping 28 Prophetic sign 30 Pliable wood 31 English article
32 “And so forth” abbr. 34 Bohr played by Kenneth Branagh in “Oppenheimer” 37 Word with bright or
big
39 Giving up a lazy Saturday to clean up a beach at sunrise, or waking up to pancakes instead of gruel?
45 Busy mo. for a
102-Across
47 Weep
48 Brazilian berry 49 Cancel
50 Ease of movement 53 Target
55 Food stamp org.
56 A chic gray bob and cat eye bifocals, or sleeping until noon and dancing until dawn?
59 Classified
60 Ethically indifferent 61 Skip over
62 Fast Amtrak train 64 Took first place 65 Underground
systems
67 Fluffy craft supply 70 Writing tip? 73 Adventure game
console
75 Soy block
76 “I am enough,” e.g. 78 Snouts
80 Cardstock instead of newsprint, or the work of a wordy student?
85 Feel (for)
86 Spanish diacritic 87 Meetings
88 Bite noisily 90 Operatic icon
91 Pub choice
92 Wolfed down
93 “The copy editor says this needs a capital letter,” or a judge saying “Not enough evidence” in a bassbaritone?
99 Flit
100 Greek fabulist
101 Wallach of “The
Holiday”
102 Tax prep pro
105 Scolding sound
108 Spring
110 2-Down, for one
112 Ready at a moment’s
notice
114 “Girl on Fire” singer
Keys
116 God’s rest on the seventh day, or forty winks on a bunk bed?
120 Sharp grabbers
121 Large barrel
122 Fish caught in pots 123 Hippocratic __
124 Orbital extreme
125 18-wheeler
126 “Happy now?”
127 __ bargain
DOWN
1 Up, in baseball 2 Canvas for many an
arborglyph
3 Midler of “Hocus
Pocus”
4 Against
5 Play-__: Fun Factory
clay
6 Norwegian saint 7 Balderdash 8 Cappuccino topping,
perhaps
9 __-Wan Kenobi
10 Jewel
11 Cookie used to make Halloween batshaped treats 12 Manage with whatever’s available
13 1968 to now, in
professional tennis 14 “__ the games
begin!”
15 Highbrow
16 Part
17 Whole lot 19 Heraklion’s island 23 Eternally
24 Event where pies win
ribbons
29 “La Bohème” heroine 33 Prickly plants
35 Like fertile soil 36 Bolsa Chica State Beach’s locale, informally 38 Single-season bloom 39 Actress Pam
40 Take a shot at 41 Promposal goal
42 Appliance that performs under pressure?
43 In the buff
44 Happy
45 Dollar alternative 46 Give ‘em the old
razzle-dazzle, say 50 Weak spot
51 Many Oscar
contenders
52 Not as well
53 Sale caveat 54 Hirsute cousin 57 Punk offshoot 58 Drain
59 Plots again
63 PR focus
66 Ending at, casually 67 Bioré target 68 Frequently, poetically 69 Oaty breakfast mix 71 Oscar nominee
Dunne
72 Xylophone parts 74 Abounded (with) 75 Journalist Koppel 77 Water nymph
78 Salt formula
79 Nueve preceder 81 Singer Redding 82 “Love your skin” body
brand
83 Woody area 84 Actress Witherspoon 89 Nutty confection 90 __ mining
91 Current units
94 Fold
95 Thin strips of land 96 Irked
97 Loses speed 98 German article
102 Gondola waterway 103 Tectonic __
104 First Greek letter
105 “Toodles”
106 Thwack
107 2.2 lbs., roughly
109 Univ. conferrals
111 Sport sword
113 Trim, as a photo
115 Horologist’s piece
117 Wrath
118 Orbit, e.g.
119 Fútbol cheer