Crossword by: Merl Reagle
Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday June 22nd LA Times crossword puzzle:
Across Answers
1 Diarist’s first name
6 What a single coin gets you on a pinball machine
13 Join the party
19 Canned heat
20 Military head?
21 Hung in folds
22 “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” musical *
24 It may involve heavy breathing
25 Dull finish?
26 Velvet finish?
27 Where the water buffalo roam
28 Barbra, for one
29 Brat Packer who wrote “Love Life” *
32 Ice cream flavor *
36 Look elated
37 Like a skink’s skin
41 NYC street crosser?
42 Use (a chaise)
44 Motor ___
46 “You ___ me one!”
47 Rueful word
49 Martini request
50 “Eyes Wide Shut” *
57 Major source of baseball talent
58 Apple bestseller
59 Crowd noise of a sort
60 Regatta craft
61 The ___ (nickname for each season’s recurring villain on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) *
63 It’s bigger than a bust
65 33,000 ft., e.g.
67 Spaniard’s quest
68 Gathers dust
69 School subj.
70 Former World Bank head *
74 “Slippery” tree
77 Soaks, as flax
78 Actress Lupino
79 Chinese-year critter
80 Sound
82 Like Leno *
85 Bumbling TV spy
87 “King Kong” maker
89 Literary captain
90 Chaplin’s last wife
91 Batting-practice contraptions (this involves two theme words) *
95 Evasive
96 Ricky portrayer
97 “Post-” opposite
98 Game center?
99 ___ of honor
101 Ernest addition
103 Soccer star Michelle
105 Tennis do-overs
108 “Fanatics & Fools” author *
111 North Atlantic birds *
114 ___ capacity
115 “Pet” that sprouts
117 Playing piece
118 “How dumb of me!”
119 Finally
122 Query to a grump *
126 Slangy gun
127 Chastised
128 Traveling band
129 Approves
130 “Wherever fine products ___”
131 Mawkish
Down Answers
1 Pulsating, to a poet
2 If ___
3 And now a word from our spaniel
4 ___ jam
5 Clairol oldie, Hair ___
6 Mills of portraiture fame
7 Home of some mil. pilots
8 Bluesy James
9 Excessively proper
10 On the up and up
11 Turkey’s capital
12 “Absolutely”
13 Wing it
14 Goes places
15 Wheat-free soy sauce
16 ___ EST HWY MPG
17 Nose, in Nice
18 Pres. monogram
19 Symbol by the L in an elevator
23 Pro shop buys
28 Live
30 Scottish landowners
31 Bygone Dodge
33 To no ___
34 Fix, as a voice-over
35 Nixon’s birthplace, ___ Linda, Calif.
38 Voight in “Ali”
39 Hole-punching tool
40 Meadows
43 Swimmer Diana
45 Sergeant, for ex.
48 Circumference
50 Hawk’s cousin
51 Immediately after
52 1970s tennis great
53 Actor Kinski
54 Hanks’s “Bosom Buddies” co-star Peter
55 Territory
56 Ocean’s bottom
57 Meas. system that includes dynes and ergs
62 Mayan site, Chichen ___
64 Not locked
66 Five-word greeting to an unknown addressee: abbr.
68 Alaska’s first capital
71 Of ___ (similar)
72 Harem room
73 Forecast word
74 First lady’s home?
75 Drink garnish
76 Pasture protests
77 Uracil’s place
81 Kid-helping org.
82 Cola lead-in
83 Moonshine
84 “I Believe ___”
85 Hurt like heck
86 Toll hwy.
88 Fall mo.
92 “Of Thee ___”
93 College sr.’s test
94 Nelson’s lead-in?
96 Renders harmless
100 Neighbors of C notes
102 Goya was one
103 Ekberg and Pointer
104 Slight fight
106 Clear the clutter
107 Red Baron chaser
109 Emcee’s job
110 Midwest air hub
112 Condos, e.g.
113 Actress Elisabeth
116 Regarding
117 Anti-DUI grp.
119 “I see” sounds
120 Hot potful
121 Hens do it
122 Ring org.
123 Predator of the deep
124 Major D.C. lobby
125 Red state org.
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