Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday, October 18th 2015, LA Times crossword puzzle.
Across
1. Old story MYTH
5. They’re often exposed in ski lodges BEAMS
10. Radio option AM/FM
14. Religious factions SECTS
19. River in the Bernese Alps AARE
20. Started anew at the campsite RELIT
21. Pump, for one SHOE
22. Summer gripe I’M HOT
23. Part of a dairy’s financial statement? CHURNINGS REPORT (from “earnings report”)
26. Tropical vine LIANA
27. Truckers’ competition ROADEO
28. 2013 Masters champ Scott ADAM
29. Whom Dennis often menaced MR WILSON
31. Bass ending -OON
32. __ factor ICK
34. Paper punditry OP-EDS
37. Common Market letters EEC
38. Slim fish EEL
39. Retired boomer SST
40. Karmann __: sports car GHIA
42. Hardly handy INEPT
44. Dry-eyes solution SALINE
46. Doesn’t eat with one’s mouth closed? CHEWS AND AAHS (from “oohs and aahs”)
49. German finale ENDE
50. Dash devices TACHS
53. Doctrinal suffix -ISM
54. Strings for Orpheus LYRE
55. Wash. setting PST
56. Onetime Ritz competitor HI-HO
57. Smidge IOTA
60. “That’s what they tell me” SO I GATHER
64. Double Stuf treats OREOS
66. Astronauts’ gear G-SUITS
68. Cab cousin ZIN
69. Running bird EMU
70. Take advantage of USE
71. Vacant seat you only thought you saw? CHAIR APPARENT (from “heir apparent”)
75. Right-to-left lang. HEB
76. Some light bulbs GES
77. Capek’s robot play RUR
78. Competed in a regatta, perhaps SAILED
79. Future moss SPORE
81. Settings for Monet HAYFIELDS
85. Genetic chains RNAS
86. Actor Ken OLIN
87. Spot on a card PIP
88. City east of Wichita IOLA
90. Former telecom company MCI
92. Seasonal tunes NOELS
93. Gung-ho AVID
95. Spread for Sunday morning coffee hour? CHAPEL BUTTER (from “apple butter’)
99. Louis XV furniture style ROCOCO
102. Hacienda brick ADOBE
103. Bounce in a cave ECHO
104. Passenger vehicle CAR
107. Antlered animal ELK
108. The law has a long one ARM
110. Horace poem EPODE
112. “__ So Shy”: Pointer Sisters hit HE’S
113. Suffix with lact- -OSE
114. Jefferson Airplane genre ACID ROCK
117. Dinghy movers OARS
119. Put sows below cows? RHYMED
121. Like horses MANED
122. Glance at the blackboard? “CHALKWARD” MOMENT (from “awkward moment”)
126. Journalistic slant ANGLE
127. Twelve __: neighbor of Tara OAKS
128. Houston athlete ASTRO
129. Thing south of the border COSA
130. Asked POSED
131. Like some audiobooks ON CD
132. Dublin-born poet YEATS
133. Uncommon blood type: Abbr. A-NEG
Down
1. Users’ shortcuts MACROS
2. Bumpkins YAHOOS
3. One forging a doctor’s note, maybe TRUANT
4. Driven drove HERD
5. Eggy pastry BRIOCHE
6. Dusk, to Donne E’EN
7. Minuscule lake plant ALGA
8. Make a mess of MISDO
9. Secure for the trip STRAP IN
10. Poisonous slitherer ASP
11. Old reciprocal electrical unit MHO
12. Thing to fill out FORM
13. Dover distance METRE
14. Mineral used in glassmaking SILICA
15. Mickey Mouse enemy __ Eagle EMIL
16. What Alice’s adventures began with? CHASE IN THE HOLE (from “ace in the hole”)
17. Constantly TO NO END
18. Marvel Comics superhero? STAN LEE
24. Stable sounds NEIGHS
25. Fix text EMEND
30. “Scream” director Craven WES
33. New Zealand bird KIWI
35. Agreement DEAL
36. Fixes SPAYS
41. St. Francis’ home ASSISI
43. Via, à la Burns THRO’
45. “__ we forget” LEST
46. Polite sneeze CHOO
47. Pepé Le Pew’s pursuit AMOUR
48. Appropriated SEIZED
50. “His house is in the village __”: Frost THOUGH
51. With 74-Down, dramatic Navy mission AIR-SEA
52. Pizza scraps? CHEESY PICKINGS (from “easy pickings”)
55. Slacks PANTS
58. Reunión attendees TIAS
59. How some stock is sold AT PAR
61. Sling spirits GIN
62. “Kicked-Up Sandwiches” author EMERIL
63. Knighted Flemish painter RUBENS
65. Rx SCRIP
66. Spaghetti sauce staple GARLIC
67. Quick ride SPIN
72. Nuanced color HUE
73. “Democracy is two wolves and __ voting on what to have for lunch”: Franklin A LAMB
74. See 51-Down RESCUE
80. In need POOR
82. Stereotypical pooch FIDO
83. Qatar’s capital DOHA
84. “Same Time, Next Year” playwright Bernard SLADE
89. Each A POP
91. Rash symptom ITCH
92. Arkansas River tributary NEOSHO
93. Visitors center handout AREA MAP
94. Mount Rainier, e.g. VOLCANO
96. You don’t have to turn its pages E-BOOK
97. Took out in cuffs, say LED AWAY
98. Hot drink holder THERMOS
100. Checked the ID of CARDED
101. Guatemala gold ORO
104. Singles bar lure COME-ON
105. Sort of, with “in” A SENSE
106. Sale indicator RED TAG
109. “Wedding Bell Blues” soloist Marilyn MCCOO
111. Take out ERASE
115. Take out DELE
116. “Star Trek” villain KHAN
118. Monterrey miss: Abbr. SRTA
120. Song with arm motions YMCA
123. “Best in Show” org. AKC
124. ’60s hallucinogen LSD
125. Gere title gynecologist DR T
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