Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday June 8th LA Times Times crossword puzzle by Merl Reagle:
Across Answers
1 Ding-a-___ LING
5 Role for Sandra TAMMY
10 Airport transport TRAM
14 Wall work MURAL
15 Singer Mann AIMEE
16 Religious repast SEDER
18 Baseball: slang POTATO
19 Interrogate GRILL
20 Poet Wylie ELINOR
22 Mantle’s number SEVEN
23 “My former spouse” THEEX
25 Earth’s shape ELLIPSOID
28 Chambliss of baseball CHRIS
29 Schoolboy collars ETONS
30 Hollywood Holmes KATIE
31 Color of honey AMBER
33 Dream, in Dijon REVE
34 All wool and ___ wide AYARD
35 Chide REPROVE
37 “Who’s on first?” word BASE
38 Refinery input ORE
39 Bjork’s homeland: abbr. ICEL
40 Ump’s cousin REF
41 Popular online lectures TED TALKS
43 Trouble, debt-wise ARREARS
45 Reading method PHONICS
49 Writer Santha Rama ___ RAU
50 Summer hrs. DST
51 Amorous invitation KISS ME
52 Potion props CAULDRONS
54 It made “Freaks” MGM
56 Ike’s WWII arena ETO
57 Crude abode HOVEL
58 Where there’s hair SCALP
60 Hall of Famer Ron SANTO
64 Thesaurus wd. SYN
66 Rocketed ZOOMED
68 One iota ATAL
70 Jockey strap? REIN
71 End of a loaf HEEL
73 Limerick, for one POEM
74 Ad award CLIO
75 Haywire AWRY
76 Hardly any effort EASE
77 Gym bag items SHOES
79 Lisa on “Friends” PHOEBE
81 Red or White team SOX
82 Bad lighting? ARSON
84 Per ___ (yearly) ANNUM
86 Appears SEEMS
87 Descriptive wd. ADJ
89 Sad sound SOB
91 Ecdysiasts STRIPPERS
93 Robinson of the Orioles BROOKS
96 Pro bono TV ad PSA
99 Pine product TAR
101 Strangelove portrayer SELLERS
102 Steamy, perhaps SENSUAL
103 Sun shunners VAMPIRES
106 Part of DJIA DOW
107 Overtake PASS
108 Slugger’s stat RBI
109 Hammering god THOR
110 Taught privately TUTORED
113 Baddie Badenov BORIS
115 Massage target KNOT
116 “Yes ___, Bob!” SIREE
118 Nail alternative SCREW
119 Run, as colors BLEED
120 Swedish autos SAABS
121 Diamond settings BALLPARKS
123 Shortstop Wills MAURY
124 Yastrzemski et al. CARLS
125 Ablution bowl LAVABO
126 Be a tub-thumper ORATE
128 Spitting things? IMAGES
130 Hesitant words WELLI
131 Babe et al. RUTHS
132 Fastballer Ryan NOLAN
133 Eyeglasses, in ads SPEX
134 Flagmaker Ross (and, starting on the T, an 11-word quote that “runs” diagonally through the grid) BETSY
135 Some hayriders GALS
Down Answers
1 They’re plucked LUTENS
2 Modern Persia IRAN
3 D.C. baseballer NAT
4 Like some stops GLOTTAL
5 Random scrap TAGEND
6 Buenos ___ AIRES
7 2009 MMIX
8 Ott or Allen MEL
9 “Look ere ___” YELEAP
10 Prufrock’s creator TS ELIOT
11 Type of pitcher RELIEVER
12 Take ___ (swim) A DIP
13 Smart set MENSA
14 “Moneyball,” e.g. MOVIE
17 Robotic vacuum cleaner ROOMBA
18 Deviant quality PERVERSENESS
21 Bawdy RIBALD
22 Shepherd of “The View” SHERRI
24 Opp. of vertical HOR
26 Paper size: abbr. LTR
27 Office buys DESKS
28 Swamp sound CROAK
29 Checks out EYES
30 Fermented-milk drinks KEFIRS
32 Breather REST
34 Part of a plot? ACRE
35 Tear apart REND
36 Gouda cousin EDAM
39 Wizard’s intro I AM OZ
40 Pack (of pennies) ROLL
42 Pulls TUGS
44 Guinness suffix EST
45 Road surfaces PAVEMENTS
46 Tinted HUED
47 Andean stimulant COCA
48 Takers SNATCHERS
52 Lures of a sort COME ONS
53 Zigzag courses SLALOMS
55 Actress Rooney MARA
57 Commotion HOO HA
59 Layers PLIES
61 Some magazines NEWS JOURNALS
62 Rookie, variantly TIRO
63 Cameo gem ONYX
64 The Mets’ old home SHEA
65 7 Down, e.g. YEAR
67 Photo ___ OPS
69 Slow throw LOB
72 Durocher et al. LEOS
78 “Why not?” SURE
79 Use a spyglass PEER
80 ___ a living EARNS
83 Words of denial NOT I
85 Shower problem MILDEW
86 Emit, as lava SPEW
88 Some advice DO’S
90 Homer’s son BART
92 Walk wearily PLOD
93 Mrs. Truman BESS
94 Orders on sticks KABOBS
95 TV dinner vents SLITS
96 Cpl.’s squad PVTS
97 Old Asian title SAHIB
98 Unprincipled AMORAL
100 Like silverware, e.g. REUSABLE
102 Stated SAID
104 Future D.A.’s course PRE LAW
105 Virgin Islands isl. ST CROIX
107 ___ on (victimizing) PREYING
111 Sitcom planet ORK
112 Soak up again RESORB
113 Like Muddy’s music BLUESY
114 Anthem preposition OER
115 Black or Carpenter KAREN
117 Pole staff? ELVES
119 Spa attractions BATHS
120 Epic accounts SAGAS
122 Insect’s feeler PALP
123 Baseball’s Moore or Joyce MATT
124 Ump’s ruling CALL
127 Montreal street RUE
129 Big bygone bird MOA
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