Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday July 3rd 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 ”Voilà!” THERE!
6 Midday refresher NAP
9 ”Monday Night Football” airer ESPN
13 Note-to-self paper SCRAP
18 Dealt with a squeak OILED
19 Busy as __ A BEE
21 West Point mascot MULE
22 ORD, on luggage tags O’HARE
23 Clobbered, old-style SMOTE
24 Wine bottle info YEAR
25 Sticking point? CRAW
26 Hard to spot FAINT
27 Something to deal with? COPING STRATEGY
30 Fence crossings STILES
31 ”We agree completely!” AMEN!
32 Brewer’s kiln OAST
33 Pay attention to HEED
34 Lady lobster HEN
35 Like granola bars OATY
37 Rene of “Nightcrawler” RUSSO
38 Beyond belief UNREAL
42 Olympic sport since 1988 TABLE TENNIS
47 Sickly WAN
49 View from Catania ETNA
50 It beat out Madrid as host city for the 2016 Olympics RIO
51 Unisex wrap SARONG
52 Back FUND
54 Sonoran flora CACTI
55 Brand that evolved from Standard Oil of Indiana AMOCO
57 Needles TEASES
59 Bummed MOOCHED
61 Salon indulgence MANI-PEDI
64 Old hand PRO
65 Tracy Marrow’s stage name ICE-T
66 Road or gang ending STER
67 Music in a shell BAND CONCERT
71 Carnival stop ISLE
75 Red options, briefly CABS
77 Organ with a drum EAR
78 Thought-out REASONED
80 Misery ANGUISH
83 Coca-Cola brand FRESCA
86 Gale’s 40, on the Beaufort scale KNOTS
87 Sam of “Jurassic Park” films NEILL
88 Breyers shelfmate EDY’S
90 Not effective FUTILE
93 MLB line score letters RHE
94 Forum attire TOGA
95 Air pressure meas PSI
96 Mouse feature SCROLL WHEEL
98 Rudely sarcastic SNARKY
100 Some entryways RAMPS
103 Operate with a beam LASE
104 Rapper __ Wayne LIL
105 Falco of “The Sopranos” EDIE
106 Certain language unit SIGN
108 Montand of cinema YVES
112 Make a decision CHOOSE
115 More than an idea CONCRETE OBJECT
118 Ladder units RUNGS
119 Houston player, to fans ’STRO
120 Penzance pad FLAT
121 Site of Theban ruins LUXOR
122 Paraplegic “Glee” teen ARTIE
123 119-Across, since 2013 ALER
124 Dog seller DELI
125 Artist with the album “25” ADELE
126 Voting groups BLOCS
127 ”The Swiss Family Robinson” author WYSS
128 Barfly SOT
129 ”… your laments, / Wherewith you now __ King Henry’s hearse”: Shak BEDEW
DOWN
1 Puccini heroine TOSCA
2 Sideline greeting HI MOM!
3 Tie the knot on the fly ELOPE
4 Vitamin A form RETINOL
5 Steinbeck title place EDEN
6 Skeptic NAYSAYER
7 Provides a false alibi for ABETS
8 Rush drummer Neil PEART
9 Handles the intros EMCEES
10 Swells SURGES
11 Trivialize PLAY DOWN
12 Dvorák’s “__ World Symphony” NEW
13 Ease SOFTEN
14 Domino effect CHAIN REACTION
15 Training guide? RAIL
16 ”Rule Britannia” composer ARNE
17 Strokes PETS
20 Big time ERA
28 ”Ya __ believe!”: 1973 Mets catchphrase GOTTA
29 Like so THUS
30 Avoid SHUN
36 ”Zeus and the Tortoise” storyteller AESOP
37 Baltic port RIGA
39 Permanently mark ETCH
40 It will get you a hand ANTE
41 Let go, with “off” LAID
42 Mine vehicles TRAMS
43 Point toward AIM AT
44 Wilderness Road pioneer BOONE
45 Away NOT IN
46 Nashville-to-Louisville dir NNE
48 Look up to ADMIRE
52 Maidenhair, e.g. FERN
53 Dream Team org USOC
54 Cedar Rapids college COE
56 Begging the question CIRCULAR LOGIC
58 52-Down cell SPORE
60 Numerical prefix OCTA-
62 Drops back EBBS
63 Short races DASHES
68 Stand up to DEFY
69 Diner and sleeper CARS
70 Rhyme writer’s Muse ERATO
72 Sleep soundly? SNORE
73 River in Hades LETHE
74 Ranger of the ’50s EDSEL
76 Suffer AIL
79 Distorts SKEWS
80 Hill builders ANTS
81 Its atomic number is 10 NEON
82 Prefix with byte GIGA-
84 Army E-7s SFCS
85 Despicable character CUR
89 Forthwith DIRECTLY
91 Response to a doorbell I’LL GET IT
92 West Texas grassy plain LLANO
95 Pulitzer-winning WWII journalist PYLE
96 An article may be written on it SPEC
97 1968 #1 hit with a four-minute coda HEY JUDE
99 Chocolate bites KISSES
101 Loves a bunch ADORES
102 Many nonvoters MINORS
106 Nine-time Grand Slam singles champ SELES
107 Author Calvino ITALO
109 Nettled VEXED
110 French school ECOLE
111 Spread STREW
112 Chesapeake delicacy CRAB
113 Attack with, as insults HURL
114 Not bamboozled by ONTO
116 Outlying mail rte RFD
117 Prove untrustworthy, in a way BLAB
119 A kind of one appears in this puzzle’s seven longest answers SAW
Leave a Reply