Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle - The Best of Times

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
1. GDPEP NJO J RCNPEXTS ATG TKRSPJOJKG IPOOJYP CK
IM XCEIPE YBESXEBPKW’O WCCE: “WCK’G ACGDPE IP.
B JI SBUBKY DJRRBSM PUPE JXGPE.”
2. EZDL PRFRKE BPRVIG OWU HWLEDKA TVL BWQKC WK
TRU UQMMREDK UWVPCL VKC DK EZR FMVLLDBDRCL:
“ERMRHVEZ KRRCRC: DB GWQ IKWT TZRPR EW VHHMG
GWQ TDMM ARE EZR OWU.”
3. RVYBY FNU N MYBP CBNOYASWWP WYRRYBYX UKCZ
LSRUKXY RVY ILUU’U LAAKOY: “YBBLBU VNMY IYYZ
GNXY: LRVYBU FKWW IY IWNGYX.”
4. ZAADEDXV ZU UYC HLAMJGZPC, UYC XCH CRJGLTCC
GLLMCQ KJ ZXQ WZH UYDW RLUDEZUDLXZG WDVX NT
YDW QCWM: “UYC NCZUDXVW HDGG PLXUDXKC
KXUDG RLAZGC DRJALECW.”
FOR RELEASE June 20, 2010