Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle - The Best of Times

COURSE HUMOR
By Julian Lim
ACROSS
1 Some bars
9 Benjamin
14 Political fugitive
20 Communications
collectible
21 Overgrown tract
22 Intolerant
23 Golfer’s excuse
for a bad chip
shot?
25 Swing one’s hips
26 It’s multifaceted
27 Bridge opening,
for short
28 Checking line
29 Golfer’s shot into
a water hazard?
38 Naval officer
41 Volume-control
devices, in
recording
42 Scads
43 Stared salaciously
44 Where to get off:
Abbr.
47 Categories
48 Like Key lime pie
49 Golfer’s lament
about difficult ball
positions?
52 Digs up?
53 Green light
54 Baseball great
Combs
55 Fills with cargo
57 Dols. and cts.
59 Start of a 1961
inaugural quote
60 Religious rift
65 What a golfer
who’s not playing
well doesn’t do?
71 Greek
marketplaces
72 Got watery, in a
way
73 Thugs’ pieces
74 Friendship
bracelet items
78 Drawn fawn
79 “Kung Fu” actor
80 Indian nurses
84 Mind-set for a
golfer wary of
sand?
89 __ of Silence: “Get
Smart” security
device
90 Long bones
91 Melancholic
92 Mike user, maybe
93 Minuscule amount
94 Brad of “Deuces
Wild”
96 Noms de guerre
97 Golfer’s slicing tee
shot?
102 Describe in
drawing
103 Ties
104 Crowd around, as
a celebrity
107 Pope who met
with Attila the Hun
109 Golfer’s admission
after missing
fairways?
115 1974 Mocedades
hit
116 Fix, as a green
117 Ford 1925 “Tin
Goose” aircraft,
e.g.
118 Vegas strategy
119 Neural impulse
carriers
120 Sitcom sewer
worker
DOWN
1 Sea cell
2 Hard to come by
3 Kingdom south of
Moab
4 Prevail
5 Cast intro?
6 “__ the force ...”
7 Hoodwink
8 Play terribly
9 Trouser material
10 Yell “Bon voyage!”
to
11 Searing utensil
12 Non-Rx
13 Your, of yore
14 Rivet
15 “Waiting on the
World to Change”
singer John
16 Chafe
17 Like salt
18 Baloney
19 One in a flock
24 Start to cry?
29 Soldier’s barked
denial
30 General heading
31 Maker of the
V10K, the world’s
hardest watch
32 __ Hari
33 Tennyson work
34 Old photo tint
35 Unfettered
36 Sushi seaweed
37 Luncheon end?
38 Husband of Fatima
39 Fourth-qtr. month
40 Predestined, with
“be”
44 Gambler’s fund
45 Ocean fliers
46 Tolerate
50 New Ager John
51 Beatles’ last album
52 Writer Sholem
56 Abbr. pertaining to
origin
57 Muslim general
58 Gig fraction
59 To __: exactly
61 Plateau
62 Foolishness
63 Snorkel, e.g.: Abbr.
64 Ed.’s workload
66 Apprehends
67 Gets close to
68 Harmful ray type
69 Spherical
70 Sinn __
75 More likely to get
hired
76 “I’m stumped!”
77 Big mess
79 Claire’s baby, on
“Lost”
80 Battery fluid
81 Peaty wasteland
82 Curaçao’s chain
83 Most weighty
85 “Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes”
composer
86 Vocal quality
87 Mix in oaters
88 Hist. class data
90 Coffinite element
95 Had way too much
96 Preposterous
98 Ham it up
99 Super Bowl
highlights?
100 “Talk to __”: 2002
Almodóvar film
101 Online reminder
104 Chef’s protection
105 1847 novel set on
Tahiti
106 Alpine capital
107 Paris possessive
108 Effort
109 Tax-deferral
vehicle, for short
110 Bewitch
111 Japanese prime
minister who
succeeded
Fukada in 2008
112 Gimlet choice
113 Insurance gp.
114 Craggy crest
Los Angeles Times
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Diagramless, 21 x 21
By Myles Mellor
ACROSS
1 Light touch
4 Water lily leaf
7 Astrologers
8 Give off
10 Leg bone
11 Runner on snow
14 Sioux lodge
16 Plant again
17 Layer
18 Kind of arthropod
20 Shower alternative
21 Pilots on one’s
own: 2 wds.
26 Tasty cabbage
dish
28 Ruined “City of
1001 Churches”
29 Reindeer herder
30 Translucent
mineral
31 Buzzing about
32 Go on to say
33 Operative starter
34 Eye problem
35 Medicinal amt.
36 Go for the
bronze?
37 Ship’s crew,
usually
38 Genesis site
42 Solitary kid: 2 wds.
46 Paid the penalty
47 TV network
48 __ publica
49 Spanish river
52 Pill popper
56 Torso
appendages
58 Obstacle
61 Latin abbreviation
62 Glittering affair
63 Glitz
64 Detergent brand
65 Flub
67 Deserted: 2 wds.
69 Half man—half
goat
70 Breakfast fare
73 NBA team (abbr.)
74 Lecture hall
77 Sri Lanka’s one
dollar
78 Indian maybe
79 Send, in an old
way
80 Sarcastic
remarks
81 Bibliographic
abbr.
82 Diaper wearer
83 Separate
DOWN
1 British title
2 Malarial fever
3 Avian illness
4 Leaf stalk
5 Definitely!
6 Business slumps
7 Work well together
9 Golf ball props
10 Malodorous
11 Waterway: 2 wds.
12 Continue: 2 wds.
13 Old immigration
department
15 Ceremonial
splendor
16 “We the Living”
author
19 Thaddeuses, for
short
20 Bleat
22 Light in a case
23 Brillo rival
24 ___ out
25 Non-clerical
27 Doo __ music
37 Noted Warhol
subject
39 Knotted weave
40 Perform
41 In spite of, briefly
43 Become engaged
44 Sci-fi series
45 Pesticide
48 Type of coat or
sweater
49 Stabilize, a price
for example
50 Einstein’s
preoccupation
51 Use elbow grease
on
52 Least attractive
53 Returnable
envelope, for short
54 “The Lord of the
Rings” figure
55 Double-crosser
57 Metal refiner
58 Lovers
59 Plant
60 Sprinted
66 Clash of clans
68 Baba, of “Sesame
Street” fame
69 Experience
71 Narrow strip of
land
72 Interlocking toy
75 Himalayan
mystery
76 Applaud
Last Week’s Cryptograms
1. A speaker gave a talk about relationships at the local club. He started out with: “Our marriage
was a love match pure and simple. She was pure and I was simple.”
2. A man was telling a lifelong friend how he viewed lively arguments: “There are three sides to
every story: his side, my side and the truth.”
3. I can teach my dog how to go and get a stick and bring it back. I can teach my cat any trick he
wants to do!
4 The pharaohs suffered from back pain like the rest of us. Their solution for the problem became
masseuses and Cairo-practors.
CRYPTOGRAMS by Myles Mellor
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TRU UQMMREDK UWVPCL VKC DK EZR FMVLLDBDRCL:
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FOR RELEASE June 20, 2010