Sunday’s crossword by: Merl Reagle
Theme: Holiday Trio
Above are the answers to the newspaper version of the Sunday December 15 2013 L.A. Times crossword puzzle. Here are the clues that Merl gave us:
ACROSS Clues
1 Dickens’s Marley
6 Garbo and Gable employer, once
9 47 Down rank
12 It might be wireless
15 Actor (and crossword fan) Matthew
16 Mobile home?: abbr.
17 Prohibition, for one
18 Cry of dread
20 “For Christmas my uncle gave me a palm-tree coffee mug from ___ …”
21 “A ___ full of cigars …”
23 “A genuine Civil War ___ …”
25 A bunch of
26 Something to chew
28 Thompson and Stone
29 “Then fine!”
30 Little rascal
31 “Haven’t ___ before?”
33 Best qualified
35 Skin soother
36 It often follows you
38 “A trip to the ___ …”
40 Actor prompter
42 “___ lessons …”
45 Nasty-smelling
46 “A DVD of the 1992 Rodney Dangerfield film ___ …”
50 Slippery varmints
51 Baja bash
53 Fields of comedy
54 Pen pal?
55 ___ Lanka
56 Colorful annual
57 Island crooner
58 Room, to Ruiz
59 Least fresh
61 My uncle’s name
63 Few seconds
64 Theme, Part 1
65 Theme, Part 2
66 Theme, Part 3
67 Relating to form
70 How we describe my uncle ever since his, um, visitations
74 Shiraz resident
78 Henry VIII’s last wife
79 Container weights
80 Xterra maker
82 Pilot’s dir.
83 Light-bulb moment word
84 Warmer and sunnier
85 Real go-getters
86 Actress Gershon
87 “A ride on the ___ …”
89 Coffee order
90 “… in my uncle’s ___ …”
92 Exceptional
93 “… and a ride back in my uncle’s ___ …”
95 Lab subj.
96 With 14 Down, a Mae West film
99 Relaxed
101 Have a feeling
103 Half a score
106 Bus lines, e.g.
108 Formal orders
110 Rizzo the Muppet, for one
111 Mickey’s maker
112 “When I got home a new ___ was in the driveway …”
113 “… and a box set of Robert ___ DVDs was under the tree.”
115 “My uncle sure knows how to make an average guy feel like a ___!”
117 Croon a tune
118 The same partner?
119 Down Under critter
120 Register for (with “in”)
121 Show stoppers?
122 Dept. overseer
123 Casting need
124 Concise
DOWN Clues
1 Vatican VIP for 26 years
2 “Not ___ eye in the house”
3 OSS successor
4 Chilling
5 Remove feeling from
6 ___-jongg
7 You can stick with it
8 Musical that features “Dancing Queen”
9 Military “fruit salad”
10 Came up
11 Cookie holder
12 1967 Peter Sellers film, “The ___”
13 Squabble
14 See 96 Across
15 Polite address
19 Hodgepodge
20 ASCAP rival
22 Michael Jackson’s 1987 assertion
24 Parisian season
27 Stun with sound
29 Place to rehearse
31 Attic sight
32 Dissertation
34 Criticize severely
37 Apt. units
39 Fastens
41 It might be keen
42 Take a break
43 Munich mister
44 ___ out of water
46 Protracted
47 Abbr. on a jet
48 Mickelson’s game
49 Convince
52 Certain earnings: abbr.
53 Overly
56 Fervor
57 West Indies nation
58 Gemini, e.g.
60 Kind of ski lift
62 Tiresome routine
63 Don or San follower
66 Audacious
67 Movie-rating org.
68 Pearl Harbor site
69 Mild oath
70 Potpourri bag
71 Chirpy bird
72 Auction ending?
73 Round numbers?
74 Eshkol’s land: abbr.
75 Unique
76 Meryl’s co-star in “The Devil Wears Prada”
77 In the area
79 Pageant toppers
81 Usher, often
84 Org. of the no-look pass
85 As a team
86 Big name in trucks
88 Rich-voiced
89 Classical, e.g.
91 Bring into play
93 Trade
94 Feeling peevish
96 Gull repairman in the comic strip “Shoe”
97 Does a yard job
98 Ancient Nile kingdom
100 “Dallas” family name
102 Skipper on the water
104 Its hub is Tel Aviv
105 Ultimate
107 Fragile cartonful
109 Shoving match?
111 “___ calling?”
113 Sitcom character, often
114 Hut material
116 Legendary Bruin
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