LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
“WALK-OFF” By C.C. BURNIKEL ACROSS
1 Org. with the slogan “No More Victims”
5 Addis __ University
10 Thunder god
14 Tributes in verse
18 Inbox pileup
20 Made level, with “up”
21 State since 1846
22 Present
23 Mucho
24 Ski resort hangout
25 Big name in women’s apparel
27 “Ozark” or “Fargo”
28 Young Darth
29 Goose that sometimes
nests in lava fields
31 Lies for, maybe
32 On an even keel
35 Job for Sam Spade
37 Remote battery
38 Two-time NBA Finals MVP
39 Asian fusion restaurant chain
41 Glad offering
45 Become defunct
46 Multi-platinum Steely Dan album
47 Type of sale
49 Language in the Tai family
50 City near
66-Down
52 Challenge in court
54 Orchestra pitch setter
55 Fourth-down play
56 Unbearably confident
58 Instruction Alice followed
60 Rapid-fire
62 “Hmm ... doubt it”
63 Withdrawal site
65 Cry at a shearing
66 “I’m good with it”
67 Streamed, perhaps
69 Run-D.M.C.’s “You Be __”
71 Pretended to be
72 “You don’t have to remind me”
75 “The Matrix” role
76 Big ball of energy
78 Food since the Han Dynasty
81 “Casino” co-star
82 Like ripe mangoes
84 “Well done, sista!”
87 Chocolat chaud need
88 It has colorful suspects
90 __ Khan
92 Crazy Taxi publisher
93 Summer hrs. in Buffalo
94 Knock response
96 Deli order
98 Put a Singer to work
99 Track tie
101 105-Across output
102 Modifies to fit
104 Drone, e.g.
105 “Mae West Lips Sofa” sculptor
107 Thai chili sauce
109 Saves, with “away”
111 Cause of some nodding
113 “Hold on a sec,” in texts
114 Lunar path
117 Acknowledges the applause
119 Early life stage
121 Haka dancers
122 “American Psycho” author __ Easton Ellis
123 Ancient France
124 Prime minister after Major
125 Nubian Museum city
126 Have the nerve
127 Bar worker: Abbr.
128 Cigna rival
129 “Frozen Fever” queen
DOWN
1 Canasta play
2 Love in Spain 3 Hacker’s coup 4 Consternation 5 SunTrust Park player 6 Rodeo mount
7 Theater group
8 Plead with
9 Yemen’s principal port
10 “The Princess and the Frog” princess
11 Presidential moniker
12 Beat consistently
13 Pro __
14 “Now I remember”
15 Genre from Mississippi
16 Bow-toting god
17 Sun. delivery
19 Yellow Teletubby with a curly antenna
26 Humiliate
30 Quito’s land: Abbr.
33 European pear
34 Sweetly, to Salieri
36 Game designer Rubik
38 Delicate trinket
40 Heart rhythm manager
42 Hickok’s last hand, reportedly
43 Texas school, informally
44 “Somebody That I Used to Know” singer
45 Dwarf wearing specs
48 Punic Wars fighters
51 “You don’t have to remind me”
53 Jacuzzi feature
55 Nana and Toto
57 Ping producer
59 __ chi
61 St. Peter’s Basilica sculpture
64 Movement in Brahms’ Serenade No. 1
66 University of California city
68 Throat lozenge
70 Molokai memento
72 Sat at a light
73 Winner at Gettysburg
74 “Sweet Love” R&B singer
77 AA flying rival
79 Annual Arizona football game
80 Prompts 82 Almost
83 Domed Asian shelters
85 Swinton of “Burn After Reading”
86 Bar code?
89 Dryer unit
91 Sausage at tailgate parties
94 Piques, as an appetite
95 Locks up?
97 Washington port
100 Remove
103 Sentence fragment
106 Humble
108 NFL Network analyst Michael __
109 Lee whom nobody doesn’t like
110 Long tale
112 Island off Tuscany
115 Some S&L plans
116 Grammy winner Turner 117 Sched. uncertainty
118 Something flipped after a walk-off home run ... and in the nine longest Down answers
120 Mirror Pond product