Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday July 13th LA Times crossword puzzle by Merl Reagle:
Across Answers
1 Rubbing-up-against-you sound MEOW
5 Short stories? BIOS
9 Of a brain membrane DURAL
14 Shack HOVEL
19 Novelist Wiesel ELIE
20 Food-label figs. RDAS
21 Future seed OVULE
22 With 16 Down, actress in “Spy Kids” (before she got married) ALEXA
23 Spoof specialist * MEL BROOKS
25 He’s the president in “The Contender” * JEFF BRIDGES
27 Benz trailer? ENE
28 Mustard, for ex. COL
29 Do nothing LOAF
30 Alveoli AIR SACS
31 Tiffany Trump’s mom * MARLA MAPLES
35 Offers (a hand) LENDS
37 Renamed oil company ESSO
38 “___ little harder” TRY A
39 Family inheritance? GENES
40 Floor meas. FQFT
44 DVD precursors VIDEOS
47 Show people CASTS
48 Half an unintelligible rock classic LOUIE
49 Green great * TIGER WOODS
51 Make another version of RE RECORD
53 TV’s “___ a Certain Age” MEN OF
54 Big Gulp cousin SLURPEE
56 They’re clearly marked EXITS
57 Filmdom’s Joey, e.g. PAL
58 Cinque minus due TRE
60 Lab personnel TESTERS
62 It can be a curse OATH
64 Jonson work ODE
65 Spread’s other name OLEO
68 Stat ASAP
69 Ovine opinion BAA
70 Pirate portrayer DEPP
72 Deep gulches for which a famous dam is named COULEES
76 Janitor’s prop MOP
78 Spill preventer LID
79 Make watertight CAULK
81 Tarnish BESMEAR
84 Snooped (around) NOSED
86 Set sail PUT TO SEA
88 Longtime “SNL” star * TIM MEADOWS
90 Set of values ETHIC
91 Villain’s look SNEER
93 “That’s ___ wrote” ALL SHE
94 The Y, for ex. ASSN
95 “Schindler’s List” character OSKAR
96 Losing proposition? DIET
97 Panda’s home ASIA
101 Smashing good time BLAST
102 1999 Nobelist in literature * GUNTER GRASS
105 Butt holder ASH TRAY
109 “I’m ___” (Jack Lemmon’s last words in “Some Like It Hot”) A MAN
111 Politico Paul RON
112 Radical ’70s grp. SLA
113 Sullivan-era comedienne * TOTIE FIELDS
115 Presidential family * THE BUSHES
118 Mural opening INTRA
119 Reckon, informally SPOSE
120 Rival of Cassio IAGO
121 Rose family member? PETE
122 Not handwritten, perhaps TYPED
123 Poet Allen et al. TATE
124 Place for a coin SLOT
125 Secy.’s cousin ASST
Down Answers
1 “Who wants ice cream?” answer ME ME ME
2 Justice Kagan et al. ELENAS
3 Squeak killers OILERS
4 Intrigue’s metaphor WEB
5 Witch craft BROOM
6 Heathen of sorts IDOLATER
7 Sturdiness symbol OAK
8 Draft org. SSS
9 Karate schools DOJOS
10 Eye part UVEA
11 Aggravates RUFFLES
12 Sitcom ET ALF
13 Like Casey Kasem’s parents LEBANESE
14 Forensic evidence, often HAIR
15 Detroit pioneer OLDS
16 See 22 Across VEGA
17 Office VIP EXECS
18 Colleen LASS
24 Elvis’s longtime label RCA
26 Frees RIDS
29 Bucolic setting LEA
32 Humperdinck hit, “After the ___” LOVIN
33 Places for figureheads PROWS
34 Disinfectant brand LYSOL
36 Main menu items * ENTREES
39 Circus crowd sounds GASPS
40 Intro to economic SOCIO
41 People worth citing, jocularly * QUOTABLE
42 Emergency treatment FIRST AID
43 Speechwriter Sorensen TED
45 “___ nothin’ ” (card player’s remark) I GOT
46 Ousts from the clergy * DEFROCKS
47 Navy capt.’s superior, once CDRE
48 Superman foe’s name LEX
49 Clairvoyants * TELEPATHS
50 Unsafe? OUT
52 Writes back * RESPONDS
53 Wielded a budget axe MADE CUTS
55 Delivery guess, briefly ETA
57 Okra unit POD
59 “Turn to Stone” grp. ELO
61 Run into RAM
63 Hoodwinked HAD
66 “The Newlywed Game” host * EU BANKS
67 Soccer stadium cry OLE
71 Yeltsin’s successor PUTIN
73 Perfume compound ESTER
74 VIP on Al Jazeera EMIR
75 Theology inst. SEM
77 Bear in a red shirt POO
80 Opp. of express LOC
82 At full speed AMAIN
83 Found a new tenant for RE LET
85 Promise and then some SWEAR
86 Low-tech missile PEA
87 Editorial writer ESSAYIST
89 Mr. Hyde, e.g. ALTER EGO
92 Stuff oneself EAT A LOT
95 Norse name OLAF
96 Horse hue DUN
98 Pageant attire SASHES
99 Keys ISLETS
100 How sheets and covers are often sold AS A SET
101 Lettuce or clams BREAD
102 Neon and xenon, e.g. GASES
103 Drone’s relative ROBOT
104 Serengeti stampeder GNU
105 Fighting (again) AT IT
106 ___ Pictures SONY
107 Internet start-up? HTTP
108 Lose steam TIRE
110 Goods: abbr. MDSE
114 MPG watcher EPA
115 Contraction missing an i TIS
116 Actor Holbrook HAL
117 Hotel amenity SPA
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