Crossword by: Amy Johnson and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Sunday August 18 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! Today’s theme is ‘Extra! Extra! with each of the second words in the themed answers being a commonly used as a part of a newspaper name.
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Across Answers
1. Gelatin garnish ASPIC
6. Engaged in battle AT WAR
11. 99 on tags, often: Abbr. CTS
14. __ and Buster Bunny: “Tiny Toons” stars BABS
18. Disco era star Summer DONNA
19. Buzzed DRONED
21. Scoot HIE
22. Zeno’s town ELEA
23. Newspaper for visionaries? DREAM JOURNAL
25. Said over ITERATED
27. Golfer Watson BUBBA
28. Newspaper for convicts? CRIMINAL RECORD
30. Shirt part ARM
31. __ candy EYE
32. Gp. with a Creative Cities Network project UNESCO
33. Attribute ASCRIBE
37. What some lie in WAIT
39. Open, as a vitamin bottle UNCAP
43. Classic roadster REO
44. Newspaper for settlers? COLONIAL TIMES
50. Harem chamber ODA
51. Jack-in-the-pulpit family ARUM
53. 1982 Grammy winner for Record of the Year ROSANNA
54. “Cool!” AWESOME
56. Kindle IGNITE
58. 911 respondent EMT
59. In again RETRO
62. Barely manages, with “out” EKES
63. Chose not to pursue, as an issue LET DIE
64. Morning deity EOS
66. Oil filter accumulation GUNK
67. Golfer’s back NINE
68. Dietary no. RDA
69. Newspaper for skiers? SNOW GLOBE
72. “The Bells” poet POE
73. Country poem IDYL
75. Ready for business OPEN
76. Tyke TOT
77. Twisted WARPED
80. Jazzman Allison MOSE
81. Order to a boxer SIC EM
83. Old PC monitor CRT
85. Pied-__: temporary home A TERRE
86. Eccentric NUTCASE
88. Museum offering EXHIBIT
91. Blacken SEAR
92. Baja bear OSA
93. Newspaper for hams? RADIO DISPATCH
97. Complex bus. office STE
98. Not inclined to go on TERSE
100. 1990s game console release, initially SNES
101. “No sweat” THAT’S OK
103. Heckle HOOT AT
106. “Have You Seen __”: 1971 hit HER
109. Old cosmonauts’ destination MIR
110. Newspaper for demons? DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
115. Greet the day ARISE
118. Tiramisu flavoring, perhaps AMARETTO
119. Newspaper for wedding planners? HITCHING POST
122. Scrabble piece TILE
123. Canal site EAR
124. Dieter’s statistic INCHES
125. Extract with a solvent ELUTE
126. Belligerent Olympian ARES
127. Cape Town’s country: Abbr. RSA
128. Ring leader? CHAMP
129. Painter Neiman LEROY
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Down Answers
1. Put in ADD
2. Ending for ab or ad SORB
3. Tire, in Toulouse PNEU
4. Where many jokes are set IN A BAR
5. Fabric used in lace CAMBRIC
6. “Without further __ …” ADO
7. Start of a postwar period TRUCE
8. Fret WORRY
9. Potts of “Designing Women” ANNIE
10. Paper unit REAM
11. Italian red CHIANTI
12. Best-seller list datum TITLE
13. Tarot readers SEERS
14. Major Boston street BEACON
15. Like some saxes ALTO
16. Craft __ BEER
17. DUI-fighting org. SADD
20. Sixth-century year DLI
24. Big Scouts meeting JAMBOREE
26. Dismiss, as a potential juror RECUSE
29. Jour’s opposite NUIT
33. Thin as __ A RAIL
34. Suit material SERGE
35. Newspaper for bumpkins? COUNTRY STAR
36. “Evil Woman” rockers, familiarly ELO
37. Colorless WAN
38. Banned fruit spray ALAR
40. Newspaper for bakers? COOKIE PRESS
41. Jingle writers AD MEN
42. Bel __: creamy cheese PAESE
45. Suffix with lact- -OSE
46. “I bet you don’t know any!” NAME ONE
47. Being pulled IN TOW
48. River to the Seine MARNE
49. Dweller on the forest moon of Endor EWOK
52. Good note for beginners to start on MIDDLE C
55. Three amigos, e.g. SENORES
57. Aunt, to 55-Down TIA
60. Voyage taken alone? EGOTRIP
61. Place for a soak TUB
65. Pvt.’s boss SGT
69. Saw SPIED
70. Tokyo-based electronics giant NEC
71. Rannoch and Tummel LOCHS
72. Square in a breadbasket PAT
73. “__ making this up” I’M NOT
74. Put out DOUSE
75. Greek mount OSSA
77. Guard WATCHMAN
78. Pindar’s Muse ERATO
79. Two-time Olivier Award winner Jacobi DEREK
82. Ancient Persian MEDE
84. “We really don’t know yet,” on a sched. TBA
87. Ring of color AREOLE
89. Omicron preceders XIS
90. Addams family member ITT
94. Dancing Duncan ISADORA
95. Being broadcast ON TV
96. Stylist’s supply HAIR GEL
99. British counties SHIRES
102. Hit that clears the bases TRIPLE
104. Blender brand OSTER
105. Casual good-byes TA TAS
106. Come out of one’s shell HATCH
107. __ Sketch ETCH A
108. Adjust the length of REHEM
110. Much input DATA
111. Kuwaiti ruler EMIR
112. Depressed area VALE
113. “__ just can’t wait to be king”: “The Lion King” lyric OH, I
114. Prez’s title CINC
116. Whiskey drink SOUR
117. This, to 55-Down ESTO
120. www access ISP
121. Mystery writer Josephine TEY
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