RELEASE DATESunday, April 24, 2016

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
MUSICAL
VARIATIONS By
GARRY MORSE
ACROSS
1 Kitchen cover
6 Outlaw played
by Tyrone in
1939
11 Speculate
15 Letter-shaped
beam
19 With 62-Across,
many a sonata
20 Skateboard
maneuver
21 Copied
22 Living __
23 SHARP
26 Students
complete file, to
a teacher
27 Enters carefully
28 Hardships
29 Trees whose
fruit yields a
moisturizing
butter
30 Author Rand
31 SHARP
36 Some U.S.
Army transports
39 Palmer with
trophies
40 Nasty smiles
41 SHARP
46 Moles activity
49 Cause of an
allergic
response
50 Pilot maker
51 Unwelcome sign
for a 49-Across
owner
54 Actress
Vardalos
55 Western,
calendar-wise
57 Medicated
58 Cravings
60 Tech sch.
overlooking the
Hudson
61 Signing,
perhaps
62 See 19-Across
63 Ruth around
bases
66 NATURAL
72 Tests for
advanced-deg.
seekers
73 Didnt feel well
75 Drawn: Abbr.
76 Sense of self
78 Burning up
79 Old enough
80 Game show
host for 50
years
86 __ garden
87 Capital of
Kazakhstan
89 Earthen building
material

90
91
93
97
100
101
102
106
108
109
110
114
115
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127

Before, in verse
1990s TV judge
FLAT
Ferris Buellers
girlfriend
Tough as __
Some deposits
FLAT
Incidentally, in
texts
Kindle reading,
briefly
Online search
results
Ill-fated 2006
Kentucky Derby
champion
Fighting
FLAT
Connections
Sweet is the
breath of __:
Milton
Bordeaux bye
Time being
Dost possess
60-Across, e.g.:
Abbr.
Fall plantings
Boss mocked
by Nast

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DOWN
1 Church area
2 Naan relative
3 One of eight
teams that
never won a
World Series
4 Like many fleet
autos
5 Cacophonous
6 He frequently
toured with Joel
7 Architectural
add-on
8 Sneaky
9 Comical Caesar
10 Slogan ending?
11 Layer of bricks
12 Political
surprises
13 Welcomes
14 Teachers deg.
15 President before
Millard
16 Ma Rainey,
notably
17 Draw a bead
on
18 Dodger
teammate of
Robinson

24 Preachers
subject
25 Lady in a lea
29 Increases
31 Devils wear, in
a 2006 film
32 Dispirit
33 Birds beak
34 Shampoo, e.g.
35 Cozy home
36 Maritime safety
gp.
37 Whalers
direction
38 Deco designer
39 Latin lambs
42 Smack
43 Architectural
order including
circular column
tops
44 Mushroom in
Japanese
cuisine
45 Violinists
supply
47 Bridget Fonda,
to Jane
48 Noble __
52 Milk Oscar
recipient

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53 One of a cubes
dozen
56 Receive
57 Look for water
59 Strictness
63 Faux felt
64 Put on
65 Tabulae rasae
67 Life of the party
68 Radio code
opener
69 Backup option
70 Sweets
71 Jewish spiritual
leader
74 Parish officials
77 Hebrides native
80 Herb in pesto
81 Strange as it
may seem ...
82 Shows of
respect
83 Dullea of 2010:
The Year We
Make Contact
84 Fish-eating flier
85 Stds. of conduct
88 Plush carpet
92 Academic
expert,
facetiously

94 Like
Shostakovichs
Symphony No.
2
95 Folder aid
96 Hardly
intellectual
98 Impulseconducting cell
99 Proofers finds
102 Not oer
103 __ vincit amor
104 Direct
105 PC port
106 Phooey!
107 Nine Inch Nails
founder Reznor
110 A/C units
111 Tops
112 Political contest
113 Pigged out (on)
115 Enough details,
please
116 Chocolate pet
117 Students email
ending
118 Van Gogh work
119 First st. admitted
to the Union
after the Civil
War

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