LA Times Crossword Answers 6 Apr 14, Sunday

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CROSSWORD SETTER: Jason Chapnick & C.C. Burnikel
THEME: The Living End … each of today’s themed answers ENDS with somewhere one might LIVE:

23A. 50 different ones were released over a 10-year period starting in 1999 STATE QUARTERS
29A. Get no laughs, as a joke FALL FLAT
35A. Brillo, for one SCOURING PAD
48A. Archeological sites FOSSIL DIGS
68A. Everywhere ALL OVER THE PLACE
90A. Electronics chain RADIO SHACK
97A. It merged with Penguin in 2013 RANDOM HOUSE
105A. Bed with bars BABY CRIB

117A. Embroidery slogan, and an alternative title for this puzzle HOME SWEET HOME

BILL BUTLER’S COMPLETION TIME: 16m 02s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 0

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across

5. 2004 Grey Goose acquirer BACARDI
The Bacardi company is still family-owned and operated, and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. The company was founded in Santiago de Cuba and became successful by selling a refined form of rum, something new to a market that was used to a crude dark rum. The Bacardi family opposed the Castro regime as it came to power, so the company had to relocate to Bermuda.

Grey Goose is a vodka that is produced in France. The beverage was developed especially for the American market using resources and expertise available in the French Cognac region.

19. Wise leader? OTHER-
Otherwise …

22. Fancy-sounding bedroom piece ARMOIRE
“Armoire” is the French word for “wardrobe”, and is used for a standing closet that stores clothes.

23. 50 different ones were released over a 10-year period starting in 1999 STATE QUARTERS
The American quarter is a little unusual in the world of decimal currency if you think about it. Most currencies have a “20-cent” coin, easier to work with mathematically. The US went for the quarter in deference to the practice of dividing Spanish Milled Dollars into eight wedge-shaped “bits”. That’s also why the quarter is sometimes referred to as “two bits”. State quarters were introduced in 1999, but prior to that the quarter had an eagle on its reverse.

25. Paper in a frame DIPLOMA
Our word “diploma” comes from Greek via Latin, with an original meaning of “state or official document”. The Greek word “diploma” described a license or a chart, and originally meant a “paper doubled over” from “diploos” the word for “double”.

30. Final Four org. NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) dates back to the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. When his son broke his nose playing football at Harvard, President Roosevelt turned his attention to the number of serious injuries and even deaths occurring in college sports. He instigated meetings between the major educational institutions leading to the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) in 1906, which was given the remit of regulating college sports. The IAAUS became the NCAA in 1910.

32. Salinger title 13-year-old ESME
J. D. Salinger wrote a short story called “For Esme – with Love and Squalor”, originally published in “The New Yorker” in 1950. It is a story about a young English girl called Esme and an American soldier, and is set in WWII.

34. Two-time U.S. Open winner Trevino LEE
Lee Trevino is an American golfer of Mexican descent, and so has the nicknames “The Merry Mex” and “Supermex”. He is well known for his great sense of humor and for playing pranks on the golf course. For many years when he played he wore a Band-Aid on his arm, covering the tattoo with the name of his ex-wife.

35. Brillo, for one SCOURING PAD
Brillo Pad is a soapy, steel wool pad, patented in 1913. The company claims that the name “Brillo” is derived from the Latin word for “bright”. The problem with the assertion is that no such word exists in Latin, although the prefix brill- is used for words meaning “bright” in Italian, French and Spanish.

41. Baja bear OSA
In Spanish, “osa” is a female bear, and “oso” is a male.

Baja California is both the most northern and the most western of the Mexican states. The name translates from Spanish as “Lower California”.

43. California nine, in sports crawl lines LAA
The Anaheim Angels are today more correctly called the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The “Angels” name dates back to 1961 when the team was founded in the “City of Angels”, Los Angeles. When the franchise moved to Anaheim in 1965 they were known as the California Angels, then the Anaheim Angels, and most recently the Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim.

46. Brest milk LAIT
Brest is a port city in northwest France, and is the second largest military port in the country. Brest was an important base for German U-boats during WWII when France was occupied by the Nazis. Brest is the most westerly city in the whole country.

47. Forum talk was in it LATIN
The Roman forum was the public space in the middle of a city, taking it’s name from the Latin word “forum” meaning “marketplace, town square”.

54. Chocolate Mr. GOODBAR
The Hershey’s candy bar called Mr. Goodbar has been around since 1925. If you buy one today you’ll read the description “made with chocolate and peanuts”. That wording is very deliberate as when Hershey changed the formula to save money in 2008, the FDA ruled that the cheaper formulation could not be described as “milk chocolate”, hence the single word “chocolate”.

56. Slide subjects AMOEBAS
An ameba (or “amoeba” as we spell it back in Ireland) is a single-celled microorganism. The name comes from the Greek “amoibe”, meaning change. The name is quite apt, as the cell changes shape readily as the ameba moves, eats and reproduces.

57. King Minos, e.g. CRETAN
Minos was the King of Crete in Greek mythology, and the son of Zeus and Europa. Minos had an elaborate labyrinth built in Crete, designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus (who famously died trying to escape from the island by “flying” away). In the labyrinth, King Minos kept the Minotaur, a dreadful creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man.

59. Sochi no NYET
Sochi is a city in the west of Russian on the Black Sea coast. It is the largest resort city in the whole country. Sochi is going to be pretty busy in the next few years. The city already hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and is scheduled to hold the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix starting in 2014 as well as the 2018 World Cup in soccer.

61. Mauna __ KEA
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, the peak of which is the highest point in the whole state. Mauna Kea is in effect the tip of a gigantic volcano rising up from the seabed. So, the “real” height of the volcano (ignoring the ocean) is over 33,000 feet, which is significantly “taller” than even Mount Everest, which has an elevation of 29,029 feet above sea level.

62. Number of hills di Roma SETTE
In Italian, Rome (Roma) was supposedly built on seven (sette) hills.

Supposedly, there were seven separate settlements on the top of seven hills east of the River Tiber, prior to the founding of the city of Rome. Tradition dictates that Romulus founded Rome on one of these hills, Palatine Hill, and the city came to encompass all seven existing settlements. The most famous hill in modern-day Rome is probably Vatican Hill, but it lies outside of walled ancient city.

65. Enjoy Olive Garden, say EAT OUT
Olive Garden is a chain of Italian-American restaurants that has over 800 locations worldwide. The chain was originally established as part of General Mills. The current owners of the chain also operate Red Lobster restaurants. Apparently there are plans to co-located Olive Garden and Red Lobster eateries so that they have separate entries but share kitchens.

67. Dancer Sally with just a few fans? RAND
The fan dance performed using ostrich feathers was popularized by burlesque star Sally Rand. “Sally Rand” was a stage name used by Helen Beck. The Rand name was given to her by film director Cecil B. DeMille, inspired by the Rand McNally road atlas. Rand’s most famous performance was at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. While performing at the Fair she was arrested four times for public nudity, even though the nudity was only an illusion as Rand was in fact wearing a bodysuit at the time.

71. City on Utah Lake OREM
Orem, Utah was originally known as “Sharon” (a Biblical name), then “Provo Bench”, and in 1914 it was given the family name of a local railroad operator called “Orem”. Orem gave itself the nickname “Family City USA” and sure enough in 2010, “Forbes” rated Orem the 5th best place in the country to raise a family.

76. Yosemite Sam’s “Scram!” GIT!
Yosemite Sam is a cartoon character who frequently goes up against Bugs Bunny.

79. OneStep 600 producer POLAROID
The OneStep 600 is a line of Polaroid instant cameras that was introduced in 1983.

Instant film is a film that contains the chemicals necessary to develop and fix the photo without subsequent processing. Instant film was first introduced in 1972 by Polaroid.

81. -y to the max -IEST
The suffix “-y” is added to nouns to give them the meaning “having the quality of” e.g. “mess” becomes “messy”. The “-y” is changed to “-iest” to form the superlative form e.g. “messy” becomes “messiest”.

83. Break indicator EM DASH
In typography, there are em dashes and en dashes. The em dash is about the width of an “m” character, and an en dash about half that, the width of an “n’ character. An en dash is used, for example, to separate numbers designating a range, as in 5-10 years. Th em dash seems to be going out of style, and indeed the application I am using to write this paragraph won’t let me show you one!

90. Electronics chain RADIOSHACK
The store we know today as RadioShack was founded as “Radio Shack” in 1921 and focused on serving the amateur radio market. The name was chosen as a “radio shack” was the wooden structure that housed the radio equipment on a ship, and a ham radio station was also known as a “radio shack”. Radio Shack was losing money in the sixties and was bought for a song by Charles Tandy who merged it with his leather goods stores under the name Tandy Radio Shack & Leather (can you believe it?). Tandy dropped all lines bar electronic items and changed the name “back” to the trendy “RadioShack” in 2000.

92. One of the Allman Brothers DUANE
The Allman Brothers Band has to be one of the most unlucky bands in the business. Soon after the group had its big break with the 1971 album “At Fillmore East”, one of the two Allman brothers(Duane) was killed in a motorcycle accident. One year later, bassist Berry Oakley was killed, also in a motorcycle accident.

94. Skelton’s Kadiddlehopper CLEM
Red Skelton was an American comedian who started out in show business as a teenager working with the circus. Skelton had a very successful career on radio before moving to television in the early fifties. His popularity only began to fade in the early seventies, when he had difficulty appealing to younger audiences. Skelton spent less time performing in his latter years, and turned to his other great love … painting.

95. Wheel spinner’s buy AN E
Someone on “Wheel of Fortune” might buy an E.

97. It merged with Penguin in 2013 RANDOM HOUSE
Book publisher Random House was founded in 1927 by Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf. Cerf became a TV personality as a regular member of the panel on “What’s My Line?”

Many of you will remember Bennett Cerf as a regular panelist on the great television game show “What’s My Line?” He was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, and was the man responsible for winning publishing contracts with authors such as Eugene O’Neill, Truman Capote and James Michener. He was hilarious on “What’s My Line?”, appearing in almost every episode of the show which ran from 1951 to 1967. He had such a gentlemanly way of making the most puerile puns.

102. Pharaoh’s cross ANKH
The ankh was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character for “eternal life”. The ankh wasn’t just used in inscriptions but was often fashioned into amulets and as surrounds for mirrors (perhaps symbolizing a view into another world).

104. Criticize CARP
The word “carp” used to mean simply “talk” back in the 13th century, with its roots in the Old Norwegian “karpa” meaning “to brag”. A century later the Latin word “carpere” meaning “to slander” influenced the use of “carp” so that it came to mean “find fault with”.

109. Wall St. locale NYC
New York’s famous “Wall Street” was originally named by the Dutch as “de Waal Straat”.

111. Lummoxes APES
The word “lummox” comes from East Anglian slang (northeast of London). The term is probably a contraction of “lumbering ox”.

113. Faux __ PAS
The term “faux pas” is French in origin, and translates literally as “false step” (or “false steps”, as the plural has the same spelling in French).

116. Thoroughbred ancestor ARABIAN
The Arab (or Arabian) breed of horse takes its name from its original home, the Arabian Peninsula. Like any animal that humans have over-bred, the horse falls prey to genetic diseases, some of which are fatal and some of which require the horse to be euthanized.

120. Mortgage feature? SILENT T
The letter T in the word “mortgage” is silent.

122. Swiss calculus pioneer EULER
Leonhard Euler was a brilliant Swiss mathematician and physicist, a pioneer in the fields of logarithms and graph theory.

124. 2002 Adam Sandler role MR DEEDS
“Mr. Deeds” is a 2002 comedy starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder. It is a not so excellent remake of the very excellent 1936 film “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The remake was nominated for three Razzie Awards: Worst Actor (Sandler), Worst Actress (Ryder) and Worst Remake or Sequel.

125. “Lohengrin” heroine ELSA
We’ve often heard the “Bridal Chorus” from Richard Wagner’s opera “Lohengrin”. It’s the tune to “Here comes the bride …”, which is played regularly at the start of wedding ceremonies as the bride walks down the aisle. In the opera, the “Bridal Chorus” is sung not at the start of the ceremony but afterwards, by the women of the wedding party as they accompany newlywed Elsa to the bridal chamber.

Down
1. Slender-necked pear BOSC
Bosc is a cultivar of the European Pear grown in the northwest of the United States. The Bosc is that pear with a skin the color of a potato, with a long neck. I always seem to use the potato as my point of reference. How Irish am I …?

2. “The Simpsons” bus driver OTTO
Otto Mann drives the school bus on the TV show “The Simpsons”. Otto is a Germanic character voiced by Harry Shearer, and his name is a play on “Ottoman Empire”. Whenever Bart sees him, he greets Otto with the words “Otto, man!”

6. Santa __: offshore winds ANAS
The Santa Ana winds are the very dry air currents that sweep offshore late in the year in Southern California. Because these air currents are so dry, they are noted for their influence over forest fires in the area, especially in the heat of the fall. The winds arise from a buildup of air pressure in the Great Basin that lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Under the right conditions, that air spills over the peaks of the Sierra Nevada and basically “falls” down the side of the Sierra range, heading for the ocean. As the air falls it becomes drier and heats up so that relative humidity can fall to below 10% by the time it hits the coast.

7. Garage unit CAR
A house might have a one-car, two-car or maybe a three-car or even bigger garage.

11. Form letters? IRS
Form 1040 was originally created just for tax returns from 1913, 1914 and 1915, but it’s a form that just will not go away …

12. Thompson of “Family” SADA
Sada Thompson was an actress from Des Moines, Iowa. Thompson is best known for playing the mother and wife in the eighties television drama series called “Family”.

15. Pocahontas’ spouse ROLFE
John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers in America, perhaps most famous for marrying the Native American Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan. For a few months before her death, Pocahontas lived with Rolfe in England. The couple had actually boarded a ship to return them to Virginia when Pocahontas became ill and had to be brought ashore on the south coast of England, where she soon passed away.

16. Fretted fiddle VIOL
Viols are a family of stringed instruments that resemble the violin family. However, viols have fretted fingerboards like guitars, and have six strings instead of four.

17. Aunt with a “Cope Book” ERMA
Erma Bombeck wrote for newspapers for about 35 years, producing more than 4,000 witty and humorous columns describing her home life in suburbia.

24. Bird in a covey QUAIL
“Quail” is a name used for several chicken-like wild birds. Quail are common prey for hunters.

The Middle French word for a “brood”, in the sense of a “brood of quail” is “covée”. We took covée” into English as “covey”, a collective noun used for quail.

29. Admit, with “up” FESS
The term “fess” is most often seen as part of the phrasal verb “to fess up” meaning “to admit to something”. “Fess” is simply a shortened form of “confess”.

36. Leadership nucleus CADRE
A “cadre” is most commonly a group of experienced personnel at the core of a larger organization that the small group trains or heavily influences. “Cadre” is a French word meaning a “frame”. We use it in the sense that a cadre is a group that provides a “framework” for the larger organization.

38. Classic muscle car GTO
The acronym GTO stands for Gran Turismo Omologato, which is an Italian phrase that translates as “Grand Touring Homologated”. Italian car manufacturers started the tradition of calling their luxury performance cars “Gran Turismo”, and calling those cars they approved for racing “Gran Turismo Omologato”. The phrase “gran turismo omologato” translates as “grand touring homologated”, with “homologated” being a technical term signifying official approval.

40. Writer Rooney ANDY
Andy Rooney began his career in newspapers during WWII working for “Stars and Stripes” in London. He had some memorable experiences during the war, including flying on the first American bombing raid over Germany. He was also one of the first American journalists to visit the German concentration camps as they were liberated. He started his segment called “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” on CBS’s “60 Minutes” way back in 1978, and so was on our screens for over 40 years. Rooney passed away in 2011. He was a cool, cool guy …

43. Many an October baby LIBRA
The constellation of Libra is named for the scales held by the goddess of justice. Libra is the only sign of the zodiac that isn’t named for a living creature.

44. “Encore!” AGAIN!
“Encore” is the French word for “again”.

45. Syrian leader ASSAD
Dr. Bashar al-Assad is the current President of the Syrian Arab Republic and the son of the former President Hafez al-Assad whom he replaced in 2001. President Assad is a medical doctor, speaks fluent English and conversational French. Assad was studying ophthalmology in London when he met his wife, who is an Englishwoman.

48. Palestinian political party FATAH
“Fatah” is actually an acronym, formed from the initials (in reverse) of “Palestinian National Liberation Movement”. Al Fatah is the largest political party in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

51. John on the farm DEERE
John Deere invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837. Prior to Deere’s invention, farmers used an iron or wooden plow that constantly had to be cleaned as rich soil stuck to its surfaces. The cast-steel plow was revolutionary as its smooth sides solved the problem of “stickiness”.

53. Minnesota United FC org. NASL
The North American Soccer League (NASL) was formed in 1968, a merger of two competing leagues. The NASL operated until 1984. A new soccer league with the same name has been operating since April 2011.

58. Wrestling holds NELSONS
The full nelson and half nelson are wrestling holds in which one wrestler secures an opponent by encircling the opponent’s arms under the armpits and around the neck. Some say the hold is named after Admiral Nelson, who was renowned for using encircling tactics in battle.

63. “West Side Story” duet TONIGHT
Leonard Bernstein’s musical “West Side Story” is of course based on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. The musical is set in New York City and features two rival gangs: the Sharks from Puerto Rico and the Jets with working-class, Caucasian roots. Tony from the Jets falls in love with Maria from the Sharks. All this parallels Romeo from the House of Montague falling for Juliet from the House of Capulet in the Italian city of Verona.

66. Beta release, e.g. TEST RUN
In the world of software development, the first tested issue of a new program is usually called the “alpha” version. Expected to have a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, the alpha release is usually distributed to a small number of testers. After reported bugs have been eliminated, the refined version is called a “beta” and is released to a wider audience, but with the program clearly labeled as “beta”. The users generally check functionality and report further bugs that are encountered. The beta version feeds into a release candidate, the version that is tested just prior to the software being sold into the market, bug-free. Yeah, right …

68. Maker of old strings AMATI
The first of the Amati family to make violins was Andrea Amati, who lived in the 14th century. He was succeeded by his sons, Antonio and Girolamo. In turn, they were succeeded by Girolamo’s son, Nicolo. Nicolo had a few students who achieved fame making musical instruments as well. One was his own son, Girolamo, and another was the famed Antonio Stradivari.

71. Verdi creation OPERA
Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian composer mainly of operas who was active during the Romantic era. Equally as famous as Verdi’s operas, are arias from those operas such as “La donna è mobile” from “Rigoletto”, “The Drinking Song” from “La Traviata” and “The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from “Nabucco”.

72. Sometime ally of Godzilla RODAN
Rodan is a flying pterosaur appearing in a series of Japanese monster movies, created by the same studio that had earlier come up with Godzilla.

Godzilla is a Japanese invention. The first in a very long series of films was released way back in 1954. The original name in Japanese was “Gojira”, but this was changed to Godzilla for audiences outside of Japan. “Gojira” is a combination of “gorira” and “kujira”, the Japanese words for gorilla and whale, apt because Godzilla is a big ape-like creature that came out of the deep.

76. Collector of views GALLUP POLL
The Gallup company is best known for its public opinion polls. The company was founded by George Gallup in 1935 as the American Institute of Public Opinion.

77. Key chain ISLES
A “key” (also “cay”) is a low island offshore, as in the Florida Keys. Our term in English comes from the Spanish “cayo” meaning “shoal, reef”.

80. Where agua flows RIO
In Spanish, there is water (agua) flowing in a river (río).

84. Martha Stewart Living topic DECOR
“Martha Stewart Living” is a monthly magazine and a TV show, with both covering entertaining and home decorating.

86. Bus. course ECON
Economics (econ.) is a business (bus.) course.

88. “Microsoft sound” composer ENO
Brian Eno started out his musical career with Roxy Music. However, Eno’s most oft-played composition (by far!) is Microsoft’s “start-up jingle”, the 6-second sound you hear when the Windows operating system is booting up. Eno might have annoyed the Microsoft folks when he stated on a BBC radio show:

I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them.

91. Melville tyrant AHAB
Captain Ahab is the obsessed and far from friendly Captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick”.

93. Roast host EMCEE
“Emcee” come from “MC”, an acronym standing for Master or Mistress of Ceremonies.

98. Waste creator HASTE
Haste makes waste …

99. __ Monday: post-Thanksgiving event CYBER
“Cyber Monday” is the Monday after Thanksgiving, a day that retailers offer incentives to online shoppers in the hope of boosting sales. The term “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 in a press release issued by the website Shop.org. In recent years, consumers have been spending more money online on Cyber Monday than any other day in the year.

101. Prepare, as Parmesan GRATE
Genuine Parmesan cheese is made in and around the Province of Parma in Northern Italy, which gives the cheese its name.

103. Big name in packaged soups KNORR
When I was growing up in Ireland, we never saw Campbell’s soup on the shelves. It was basically all Knorr products, and dehydrated soup from a packet at that. How times have changed. Knorr is a German brand, now owned by the Anglo-Dutch Company Unilever.

106. Met solo ARIA
The Metropolitan Opera (the Met) of New York City is the largest classical music organization in the country, presenting about 220 performances each and every year. Founded in 1880, the Met is renowned for using technology to expand its audiences. Performances have been broadcast live on radio since 1931, and on television since 1977. And since 2006 you can go see a live performance from New York in high definition on the big screen, at a movie theater near you …

107. Indonesian island on its own sea BALI
Bali is the most important tourist destination in Indonesia and is an island lying east of Java. In recent years, Bali’s tourist industry has been badly hit in the aftermath of two terrorist bombings. The first one, in 2002, killed 202 people, mainly foreign tourists in a nightclub.

The body of water lying north of the island of Bali is called the Bali Sea.

108. Like LAX INTL
Los Angeles International Airport is the sixth busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and the busiest here on the West Coast of the US. The airport was opened in 1930 as Mines Field and was renamed to Los Angeles Airport in 1941. On the airport property is the iconic white structure that resembles a flying saucer. This is called the Theme Building and I believe it is mainly used as a restaurant and observation deck for the public. The airport used to be identified by the letters “LA”, but when the aviation industry went to a three-letter standard for airport identification, this was changed to “LAX”. Apparently the “X” has no significant meaning.

110. Gospel singer Winans CECE
CeCe Winans (real name Priscilla) is a Gospel music singer. She is part of a duo with her brother, BeBe Winans (real name Benjamin).

112. Anti-doping targets, briefly PEDS
Performance-enhancing drug (PED)

114. Iowa city AMES
The city of Ames, Iowa is famous for holding the Ames Straw Poll in advance of most presidential elections. The poll in question is used to gauge the level of support for two or more Republican candidates, although non-Republicans are allowed to cast a vote. To vote one has to be an Iowa resident and one must buy a ticket to the fundraising dinner at which the vote is taken. The event gets a lot of coverage, so it boosts the local economy as journalists hit the town. It is a very successful fundraiser for the Republican Party in Iowa as well, but the usefulness of the straw poll in predicting the eventual winner of the nomination is less clear. There have been five straw polls since 1979, and just 2 out of 5 times the poll winner went on to capture the party’s nomination.

115. Evening at Lake Como SERA
Lake Como is a glacial lake in Lombardy in Italy. Lake Como has long been a retreat for the rich and famous. Lakeside homes there are owned by Madonna, George Clooney, Gianni Versace, Sylvester Stallone and Richard Branson.

118. Canonized mlle. STE
“Sainte” (ste.) is French for “saint”, when referring to a female.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Start bubbling, perhaps BOIL
5. 2004 Grey Goose acquirer BACARDI
12. Feels a strong need (for) STARVES
19. Wise leader? OTHER-
21. Red-hot ON A TEAR
22. Fancy-sounding bedroom piece ARMOIRE
23. 50 different ones were released over a 10-year period starting in 1999 STATE QUARTERS
25. Paper in a frame DIPLOMA
26. New England swimmer COD
27. Clucks of disapproval TUTS
28. Brew choice ALE
29. Get no laughs, as a joke FALL FLAT
30. Final Four org. NCAA
32. Salinger title 13-year-old ESME
34. Two-time U.S. Open winner Trevino LEE
35. Brillo, for one SCOURING PAD
41. Baja bear OSA
43. California nine, in sports crawl lines LAA
46. Brest milk LAIT
47. Forum talk was in it LATIN
48. Archeological sites FOSSIL DIGS
52. Include ADD IN
54. Chocolate Mr. GOODBAR
56. Slide subjects AMOEBAS
57. King Minos, e.g. CRETAN
59. Sochi no NYET
60. Guidelines CRITERIA
61. Mauna __ KEA
62. Number of hills di Roma SETTE
65. Enjoy Olive Garden, say EAT OUT
67. Dancer Sally with just a few fans? RAND
68. Everywhere ALL OVER THE PLACE
71. City on Utah Lake OREM
74. Trap setter, when it works SNARER
75. Deal with SEE TO
76. Yosemite Sam’s “Scram!” GIT!
79. OneStep 600 producer POLAROID
81. -y to the max -IEST
83. Break indicator EM DASH
85. It may involve pasting EDITING
86. Back ENDORSE
89. Ball queen BELLE
90. Electronics chain RADIOSHACK
92. One of the Allman Brothers DUANE
94. Skelton’s Kadiddlehopper CLEM
95. Wheel spinner’s buy AN E
96. However, briefly THO’
97. It merged with Penguin in 2013 RANDOM HOUSE
99. Short smoke? CIG
102. Pharaoh’s cross ANKH
104. Criticize CARP
105. Bed with bars BABY CRIB
109. Wall St. locale NYC
111. Lummoxes APES
113. Faux __ PAS
116. Thoroughbred ancestor ARABIAN
117. Embroidery slogan, and an alternative title for this puzzle HOME SWEET HOME
120. Mortgage feature? SILENT T
121. Built ERECTED
122. Swiss calculus pioneer EULER
123. Do stuff HAIR GEL
124. 2002 Adam Sandler role MR DEEDS
125. “Lohengrin” heroine ELSA

Down
1. Slender-necked pear BOSC
2. “The Simpsons” bus driver OTTO
3. “Who knew?” I HAD NO IDEA
4. Court call LET
5. Ring event BOUT
6. Santa __: offshore winds ANAS
7. Garage unit CAR
8. “__ girl!” ATTA
9. Pulled (in) REELED
10. Challenges DARES
11. Form letters? IRS
12. Thompson of “Family” SADA
13. Sound from a nest TRILL
14. More than enough AMPLE
15. Pocahontas’ spouse ROLFE
16. Fretted fiddle VIOL
17. Aunt with a “Cope Book” ERMA
18. It’s often reserved SEAT
20. Pave over RETAR
24. Bird in a covey QUAIL
29. Admit, with “up” FESS
31. Make the grade CUT IT
33. Secure with lines MOOR
35. Play in a line SLACK
36. Leadership nucleus CADRE
37. Badger NAG
38. Classic muscle car GTO
39. Trailblazer PIONEER
40. Writer Rooney ANDY
42. In most cases AS A RULE
43. Many an October baby LIBRA
44. “Encore!” AGAIN!
45. Syrian leader ASSAD
48. Palestinian political party FATAH
49. Copy IMITATE
50. Garage alternative LOT
51. John on the farm DEERE
53. Minnesota United FC org. NASL
55. Visibly embarrassed BEET RED
58. Wrestling holds NELSONS
60. Deal COPE
63. “West Side Story” duet TONIGHT
64. Plug in the den? TV AD
66. Beta release, e.g. TEST RUN
68. Maker of old strings AMATI
69. Sign again REINK
70. Vanity item COMB
71. Verdi creation OPERA
72. Sometime ally of Godzilla RODAN
73. Say somethin’, say? ELIDE
76. Collector of views GALLUP POLL
77. Key chain ISLES
78. Central idea THEME
80. Where agua flows RIO
82. Party supply SODA
84. Martha Stewart Living topic DECOR
86. Bus. course ECON
87. Blue SAD
88. “Microsoft sound” composer ENO
91. Melville tyrant AHAB
93. Roast host EMCEE
97. Matched shirts and skirts? RHYMED
98. Waste creator HASTE
99. __ Monday: post-Thanksgiving event CYBER
100. Cupcake cover ICING
101. Prepare, as Parmesan GRATE
103. Big name in packaged soups KNORR
105. Big party BASH
106. Met solo ARIA
107. Indonesian island on its own sea BALI
108. Like LAX INTL
110. Gospel singer Winans CECE
111. Blown away AWED
112. Anti-doping targets, briefly PEDS
114. Iowa city AMES
115. Evening at Lake Como SERA
117. Shut (in) HEM
118. Canonized mlle. STE
119. Peach or cherry HUE

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5 thoughts on “LA Times Crossword Answers 6 Apr 14, Sunday”

  1. Hi Bill, back home? Vidwan, Sfingi, Jeff, Piano Man Addict Tony
    Got everything except -IEST (awful)DUANE ENO TESTRUN and thought quite strangely, that "party supply" was some 'round about way to clue TOGAS.
    Must get some stuff done. Happy Sunday, all!

  2. I notice there was no explanation for 35D Play in a line: Slack. Did this perplex others as it did me? I finally realized that this refers to the slack in a line (rope etc.) that happens when you let it loose. Duh.

    Lee Travino: My favorite story about Travino is when he was being interviewed about the pressure of playing on the PGA tour. He had been pretty penniless for years before he finally made it. He said "These golfers don't know about pressure. Pressure is pressing (betting) $10 on a shot when you only have $5 in your pocket." He apparently did this for years to get money for food.

  3. For 46 Across, my clue read, "Café au ____". Apparently "Brest Milk" was a bit too racy for the editors in Milwaukee, WI. Ha! Silliness.

    I missed 2 squares this week. Only one perfect Sunday puzzle so far, the torture continues 🙂

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