Below is the complete list of clues and answers to the Sunday January 11th LA Times crossword puzzle by Merl Reagle with the theme ‘Triple Play’…lots of the answers include the number 3.
ACROSS
1 Blueprint details SPECS
6 Some New Zealanders MAORIS
12 Morlock victims ELOI
16 Genie’s offer 3 WISHES
18 California college POMONA
19 It’s the red solid 3 BALL
20 ___ lunch 3 MARTINI
21 “The Old Man and the Sea,” basically 3 LETTER WORDS
23 Roof material TIN
24 Floors AMAZES
26 Crude oil, e.g. GOO
27 Cries from sties OINKS
28 “Walk-___ welcome” INS
29 Dissuade DETER
30 Sighted starter FAR
31 Spend less money, in store names SAV
32 Dirt + water MUD
33 Verb ending? OSE
34 When Hamlet says “To be, or not to be” ACT 3
36 Wes Craven’s 2000 sequel to a sequel SCREAM 3
40 Schoolboy collars ETONS
42 Greek letters PSIS
43 ___-jongg MAH
44 Bad for traction SLICK
46 ___ fine seam SEW A
47 The going rate? SPEED
49 “Go ahead, ask” TRY ME
51 Name in brotherly baseball lore ALOU
52 Criticize sneakily SNIPE AT
54 MacMurray’s old TV series MY 3 SONS
56 Private response? SIR
57 Baloney peddler LIAR
58 ___ a dime STOP ON
60 Maroon STRAND
62 “___ in a boat” 3 MEN
64 U.S. milestone reached in October 2006 300,000,000
67 Faux pas follower OOPS
68 Like a triangle 3 SIDED
70 Big, to a maestro GROSSO
71 Math course, for short CALC
73 Argument side CON
74 Work like a gland SECRETE
76 Oxymoronic shout STRIKE 3
79 River between China and Russia AMUR
81 Just-caught FRESH
82 Back-to-back-to-back win 3PEAT
84 Shuttle launcher NASA
86 Offends the olfactories REEKS
88 Founded: abbr. EST
89 Shin-kicker BRAT
90 Greek letters BETAS
91 Trio in shorts STOOGES
93 Overly detailed BUSY
94 Said twice, a classic Mardi Gras song IKO
96 Apt. coolers ACS
97 Vain sort FOP
98 Wee hour mentioned in “Get Off of My Cloud” 3 AM
99 Muscle power SINEW
101 Opening for three TRI
102 Refinement TASTE
105 ___ Saud IBN
106 Scrub (a mission) CANCEL
107 Exerciser’s run JOG
108 Boarding house offering 3 SQUARES A DAY
111 Quick inning, perhaps 3 UP 3 DOWN
113 Goat-leg deities FAUNS
114 A Canadian capital REGINA
115 Sagged DROOPED
116 Math course, for short TRIG
117 ___ one’s laurels REST ON
118 Falls in flakes SNOWS
DOWN
1 Fabric used in baby clothes SWANS DOWN
2 Part of a circle formula PIR
3 Sonora and others, to Sonorans ESTADOS
4 Musical bells CHIMES
5 Legislative body SENATE
6 Napster files MP3S
7 Yahoo! competitor AOL
8 Type of essential fatty acid OMEGA 3
9 Palindromic part ROTOR
10 A big fan of INTO
11 Abbr. on motor oil SAE
12 Black, to poets EBON
13 Carefree outing LARK
14 Reo’s creator OLDS
15 They, in Marseille IL
16 Length of a boxing round 3 MINUTES
17 AA, AAA or C, e.g. SIZE
19 Classic 1949 film, “A Letter to ___” 3 WIVES
20 Commodores hit, “___ a Lady” 3 TIMES
22 Den din ROAR
25 Puzzle solvers may do it ERASE
30 Worth and Wayne, for ex. FTS
31 Doofus SCHMO
35 Heston film, “El ___” CID
36 Doesn’t consent SAYS NO
37 Montgomery’s st. ALA
38 Ronnie of country MILSAP
39 “___ in the Fountain” 3 COINS
41 Caught red-handed NAILED
42 Treat like a dog? PET
43 Film in which Bernie Mac plays a retired baseball star who didn’t get quite as many career hits as he thought MR 3000
45 Many a northern Iraqi KURD
47 Aegean, e.g. SEA
48 Hole whose eagle would be a hole-in-one PAR 3
49 Proof catches TYPOS
50 PT boat officer: abbr. ENS
53 Needle bearers PINES
54 Lodge member MOOSE
55 Popular vodka, briefly STOLI
58 Most achy or angry SOREST
59 Paste target TOOTH
61 Notre Dame legend ROCKNE
62 Bears, Wise Men, etc. 3SOMES
63 Ballroom dance MINUET
65 Fiona is one in “Shrek 2” OGRESS
66 Intro to -gon OCTA
68 Large, as a garage 3 CAR
69 OED listing DEF
72 “But is it ___?” ART
75 Pussyfoot around? CREEP
76 Ready/go insert SET
77 Classic sandwich-board sign EAT AT JOE’S
78 Not-so-subtle hint to your date’s kid sister, perhaps 3’S A CROWD
80 Old MGM rival RKO
82 Grade-school basics 3 R’S
83 ___ compliment PAYS A
85 Give out, as homework ASSIGN
87 ___ a pillow SOFT AS
89 Ne’er-do-well BUM
90 Throw a perfect game, perhaps SA
92 Attendee GOER
93 Stagecoach robber BANDIT
94 Brings upon oneself INCURS
95 “___ truckin’!” KEEP ON
98 “… yes sir, yes sir, ___ full” 3 BAGS
100 How some films are shown IN 3D
102 Romanov ruler TSAR
103 Here, in Seville AQUI
104 Like Eastern Orthodox services SUNG
105 “Interesting!” I SEE
106 Ink-cartridge color CYAN
108 1 yd. 3 FT
109 Be off a bit ERR
110 “I’ll take that as ___” A NO
112 Govt. org. concerned with infrastructure DPW
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