Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
Illegal tender
ACROSS
1 “Please stay” 7 Fallopian tube neighbor 12 __ Beta Kappa
15 Just peachy, in old slang 18 Tool for winter fishing 19 “I swear!”
20 Royal problem? 21 Superhero sound effect 22 Mad money? 24 Lingerie brand 25 Chapter in history 26 Close-knit team 27 Navel type
28 Grant money?
30 Takes too much, briefly 31 The OED’s 21,728, e.g. 33 Australian rockers __ at Work
34 Shoot for
35 Voice below soprano 36 French toppers
39 NFL pass rushers, as a unit
40 Hot money? 45 They’re used for emphasis 47 Olympian Bolt
48 Bit of info
49 Nasty type
50 Social media pic that may go viral 51 Intrinsically 52 Ransom money? 56 Amtrak track
57 Talk Like a Pirate Day word
58 Undoing
60 “What else could it be?!” 61 Go head to head 62 From sunup to sundown 64 Afterwords
67 Greek goddess of wisdom 69 Hawaiian staple 70 Gamer’s complaint 72 Arrived at, as a conclusion 73 BuzzFeed reaction button 75 Wears on
76 Old money?
79 Dishes out incautiously 81 Sister of Rachel 82 Mercedes-Benz sedan line 83 “What are you gonna do about it?!”
84 Put on
85 Should really
87 Paper money?
89 Type of drum or dance 90 Cassock wearer 92 Long, long time 93 Heavenly body?
94 Bear in Baja
95 Seder staple
97 Pres. when Sputnik was launched
100 Bad money?
103 Hindu teacher
105 Rumble in the Jungle
setting
107 Celtic Sea land, to the IOC 108 Hard end?
109 Smart money?
111 Wonderland drink 112 “I would consider __ honor” 113 Backwoods type 114 Self-referential “Don’t you think?”
115 Fizzy prefix
116 Flyers’ org. 117 Witherspoon of “Wild” 118 African pest
DOWN
1 ‘70s music genre
2 Pie slices, often 3 Water and air, e.g. 4 Peter the Great, e.g. 5 Strategy
6 Be indebted to 7 As expected 8 Battery count
9 Jai __
10 Ancient mariner’s story, e.g.
11 Positive answer 12 Besties
13 Runner’s __ 14 Unfavorably 15 Feature of club nights for comic wannabes 16 Main cast of “Parasite,” e.g.
17 Discarded old PCs, say 20 Finer-tipped
23 Well-intentioned humanitarian
28 Like a bairn
29 Fried foods, vis-à-vis baked ones 32 Georgia airport code 33 Dash in a spice rack? 35 Word rarely used without “far”
36 Living symbol of happiness
37 State tree of Massachusetts 38 No-nonsense 40 Undeserved punishments 41 Rely heavily on 42 Hermanos, primas, etcétera 43 Ballet-inspired workout method 44 Oft-mispunctuated word 46 Time Person of the Year et al. 49 Compressed file format 51 Accounts __
52 Ski slope apparel 53 Stuff oneself silly 54 Connection
55 Pet control aids 59 Tavern mugful
63 Tina Fey’s boss on
“30 Rock”
65 Devices made largely obsolete by smartphones 66 NFL ref’s review aid 68 Multinational hotel chain 71 Understand
74 Like many La Scala productions 77 Bookkeeper’s book 78 Ovarian hormone 80 Rent
83 ‘60s protest gp.
84 Big bores
85 Special guest, perhaps 86 Like many Cubist paintings 87 Fair-hiring inits.
88 “__ me!”
89 Bolivian bungalow 91 Sorta cousin 95 Former fillies
96 More than enough 97 “__ We Almost Have It All”
98 Mildly annoyed cries 99 Unnerving
101 Swear words?
102 River through Orsk 103 Pump, e.g.
104 Aftermath
106 “Zip-__-Doo-Dah” 109 Home of many 2010s
refugees: Abbr.
110 Magician’s source of
surprises