LA Times Crossword Answers 18 Jan 15, Sunday

Frequently Asked Question: Why isn’t the puzzle in my paper the same as the one shown on your blog?
If the puzzle in your paper doesn’t match the one that I solved, it is probably a Sunday crossword. On Sundays, the “LA Times” chooses to publish Merl Reagle’s excellent crossword, and not their own “LA Times” Crossword. The “LA Times” puzzle is still sent out in syndication, and is also published in the “LA Times” online. I’ve been asked to blog about Merl Reagle’s crossword, but frankly I don’t have the time. Sunday puzzles have lots of clues!

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
5. Santa __ ANA
Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County, California and takes its name from the Santa Ana River that runs through the city.

8. Blue stone, briefly LAPIS
Lapis lazuli is a blue, semi-precious stone mined mainly in Afghanistan. Lapis Lazuli is Latin for “stone of Lazhward”, referring to the Persian name for the location where the stone was mined. Our word “azure”, a shade of blue, has the same root.

13. Gastric maladies ULCERS
Until fairly recently, a peptic ulcer was believed to be caused by undue amounts of stress in one’s life. It is now known that 70-90% of all peptic ulcers are in fact associated with a particular bacterium.

19. Award that’s a pronunciation of its initials OBIE
The Obies are the “Off-Broadway Theater Awards”. The Obies are presented annually and the recipients are chosen by “The Village Voice” newspaper. The name “Obie” comes from the initials “OB” of “Off-Broadway”.

20. Curse HEX
“Hexen” is a German word meaning “to practice witchcraft”. The use of the word “hex” in English started with the Pennsylvania Dutch in the early 1800s.

21. Solder, for one ALLOY
Solder is a metal alloy that is used to join pieces of a work together using the principle that the melting point of the alloy is below the melting point of the workpieces.

27. 1983 title character who sings “Where Is It Written?” YENTL
“Yentl” is a play that opened in New York City in 1975. The move to adapt the play for the big screen was led by Barbara Streisand, and indeed she wrote the first outline of a musical version herself as far back as 1968. The film was eventually made and released in 1983, with Streisand performing the lead role.

28. “… ain’t quite as dumb as __”: “How Long” lyric I SEEM
“How Long” is a 1974 song recorded by the rock band Ace from Sheffield in the north of England. The song charted for Ace, as it did for Rod Stewart when he recorded a cover version in 1981.

31. Pro __ TEM
“Pro tempore” can be abbreviated to “pro tem” or “p.t.” “Pro tempore” is a Latin phrase that best translates as “for the time being”. It is used to describe a person who is acting for another, usually a superior.

33. Island east of Manila GUAM
Guam is a US territory in the western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Guam is also the first territory in the United States to see the sun rise on any particular day. As such, the territory has adopted the motto, “Where America’s day begins”. During WWII, the US territory of Guam was occupied by the Japanese for 31 months until it was liberated in the Battle of Guam in July 1944. Of the 18,000 Japanese men holding the island, only 485 surrendered, so almost all perished in the invasion. One Japanese sergeant hid out on the island for an incredible 28 years, finally surrendering in 1972!

Many moons ago I spent a couple of very happy years living in Manila in the Philippines. I had an apartment there, and residing in the apartment building next door was Imelda Marcos, along with all of her shoes I assume …

35. First century Roman emperor OTHO
Otho was Emperor of Rome for only three months, before he committed suicide. It is thought that Otho killed himself as a gesture intended to avoid a civil war.

AD 69 was a year of civil war in ancient Rome. The unrest started with the death of emperor Nero in AD 68, after which followed the brief rule of Galba, of Otho, of Vitellius, and of Vespasian all in the same year. As a result, AD 69 became known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

47. __-Croatian SERBO
The language known as Serbo-Croatian is a primary language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

49. Sheikh Zayed was its first pres. UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates (states) in the Middle East. Included in the seven are Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with the city of Abu Dhabi being the UAE capital and cultural center.

Zâyed bin Sulṭân l Nahyân was the Emir of Abu Dhabi and the driving force behind the formation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, soon after the individual emirates gained independence from Britain.

54. Like Chopin’s Étude Op. 10, No. 3 IN E
The famous melody in Chopin’s Étude Op. 10, No. 3 was declared by the composer to be his own favorite. The piece is sometimes referred to as “Tristesse” or “Farewell”.

58. Pen in Patna? INDIA CLINK (from “India ink”)
The black ink known as “India ink” was actually developed in the China, although the carbon pigment used was imported from India, hence the name.

The Clink (also “the Clynke”) was a celebrated prison in Southwark, England owned by the Bishop of Winchester. The prison was given the name “the clink”, probably from the sound made by metal keys in metal locks and metal chains around ankles. The prison was closed down in 1780, and around the same time “clink” entered the English language as a slang term for “jail”.

“Pen” is a slang term for “penitentiary”. Back in the early 1400s, a penitentiary was a place to do “penance”, a place of punishment for offences against the church.

The Indian city of Patna was founded on the banks of the River Ganges in 490 BCE, making Patna one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.

62. Rodent control brand D-CON
“d-Con” is a line of rodent control products that has been around for over 50 years.

63. Olds models ALEROS
The Oldsmobile Alero was the last car made under the Oldsmobile brand. The Alero was produced from 1999 to 2004.

66. “The Path to Love” author Chopra DEEPAK
Deepak Chopra is a medical doctor who is now an advocate for alternative medicine. Chopra was born in New Delhi, India and immigrated to the US in 1968. He is an advocate for mind/body spiritual healing. I have heard Chopra speak, and he really knows how to get his message across …

70. Actress Samantha EGGAR
The lovely actress Samantha Eggar is from London. Eggar had the honor of starring in the 1966 film “Walk, Don’t Run” beside Cary Grant, which was his last movie.

72. Mythical eagle-lion hybrid GRIFFIN
The legendary creature called a griffin has the body, tail and back legs of a lion, and the head, wings and front feet/talons of an eagle.

77. Rimsky-Korsakov’s “__ d’Or” LE COQ
“The Golden Cockerel” (“Le coq d’or”) is a an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that was premiered in 1909 in Moscow. Sadly, that premiere was a year after the composer died.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was one of the great Russian composers from the Romantic Era. His most famous works are probably “Capriccio Espagnol” and “Scheherazade”. While he was composing, Rimsky-Korsakov spent much of his working life as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy.

79. Chelsea’s __ Square, fashionable shopping area SLOANE
Sloane Square and Sloane Street in London are home to many of the famous brand fashion stores. The upper class English ladies who frequent the area are sometimes referred to as “Sloane Rangers”.

80. Gideon Fell’s creator CARR
John Dickson Carr was an American author of crime fiction. Carr’s most famous work is “The Hollow Man” published in 1935, a so-called “locked room mystery” in which two murders are committed in apparently impossible circumstances. “The Hollow Man” was selected in 1981 as the best “locked room mystery” of all time.

82. Loot from a shamrock heist? CLOVER HAUL (from “overhaul”)
We Irish folk don’t love all clover, just the variety known as shamrock. “Shamrock” is an anglicized version of “seamróg”, the Irish word for clover.

85. Madre’s milk LECHE
In Spanish, a mother (madre) might produce milk (leche).

87. Onslaught SIEGE
Our word “siege” comes from a 13th century word for a “seat”. The military usage derives from the concept of a besieging force “sitting down” outside a fortress until it falls.

88. Adams of “Octopussy” MAUD
Maud Adams actually played two Bond girls, in “The Man with the Golden Gun” and “Octopussy”, both times opposite Roger Moore as James Bond. In fact, Adams was visiting her friend Roger Moore while he was shooting “A View to a Kill” and can be seen in the back

“A View to a Kill” is a James Bond movie with Roger Moore playing the famous 007. The villain of this particular piece was played very ably by Christopher Walken. In the film, Actress Maud Adams appears as an extra in a scene shot at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. She was visiting her friend Roger Moore, and happened to get caught in the background. Adams is the only actress to play a Bond girl twice (in “The Man with the Golden Gun” and “Octopussy”), and she also merits this uncredited appearance in “A View to a Kill”.

90. Knight in a sitcom TED
Ted Knight was the actor best known for playing the slow-witted news anchor Ted Baxter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. Knight’s most famous role on the big screen was Judge Elihu Smails in the 1980 comedy “Caddyshack”.

97. “Octopussy,” e.g. SPY STORY
The title for the 13th James Bond film “Octopussy” actually came from an original story by the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming. However, the movie bears no resemblance to Fleming’s 1966 short story “Octopussy and the Living Daylights”. “Octopussy” was one of the Roger Moore Bond movies, his second to last.

101. Moviehouse that always cuts to the chase? CLIMAX THEATER (from “Imax theater”)
The IMAX Corporation, which is behind the IMAX film format, is a Canadian company. The impetus for developing the system came after Expo ’67 in Montreal. Back then large format screenings were accomplished using multiple projectors with multiple screens, with images basically stitched together. The team behind the IMAX technology set out to simplify things, and developed a single-camera, single-projector system.

105. Iams competitor ALPO
Alpo is a brand of dog food first produced by Allen Products in 1936, with “Alpo” being an abbreviation for “Allen Products”. Lorne Greene used to push Alpo in television spots, as did Ed McMahon and Garfield the Cat, would you believe?

Iams dog food was originally the creation of animal nutritionist Paul Iams. He felt that household pets were suffering somewhat by being fed a diet of table scraps, so he developed a dry dog food that he felt was more nutritious and suitable for pet dogs. He founded the Iams company, now part of Procter & Gamble, in 1946.

106. Once named NEE
“Née” is the French word for “born” when referring to a female. The male equivalent is “né”.

107. High-rent game property PARK PLACE
Park Place is an expensive property on the Monopoly board, which features the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

112. Ancient fabulist AESOP
Aesop is remembered today as a fabulist, a writer of fables. Aesop lived in Ancient Greece, probably around the sixth century BC. Supposedly he was born a slave, somehow became a free man, but then met with a sorry end. Aesop was sent to the city of Delphi on a diplomatic mission but instead insulted the Delphians. He was tried on a trumped-up charge of stealing from a temple, sentenced to death and was thrown off a cliff.

127. Revered Mother TERESA
Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in the city that is now called Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. At birth she was given the names Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (“Gonxha” means “little flower” in Albanian). She left home at the age of 18 and joined the Sisters of Loreto, and headed to Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham in Dublin, Ireland in order to learn English. Her goal was to teach in India, and English was the language used there for instruction by the nuns. After Mother Teresa passed away in 1997 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, a step on the road to canonization. In order for her to be beatified there had to be documented evidence of a miracle that was performed due to her intercession. The miracle in question was the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of a woman due to the application of a locket containing a picture of Mother Teresa. Documentation of a second miracle is required for her to be declared a saint.

128. Straw sources PINES
Pine straw is made from pine needles collected from around the base of the tree.

129. Bow raw material YEW
Yew is the wood of choice for the longbow, a valued weapon in the history of England. The longbow is constructed with a core of yew heartwood (as the heartwood resists compression) that has a sheath of yew sapwood (as the sapwood resists stretching). The yew was in such demand for longbows that for centuries yew trees were in short supply in Britain and the wood had to be imported from all over Europe.

130. Sistine Chapel ceiling depiction EDEN
The Sistine Chapel, in the Pope’s residence in Rome, takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV who was responsible for restoring the old Capella Magna in the 15th century. It was about a century later (1508-1512) that Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel under the patronage of Pope Julius II.

Down
1. Fragrance giant that went public in 2013 COTY
Coty is a producer of beauty products that was founded in 1904 in Paris. Coty went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013, raising $1 billion in capital.

3. “Très __!” BIEN
Très bien! Very (très) good (bien), in French.

6. Vintage pop NEHI
“Nehi Corporation” was the nickname for the Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works that introduced the Nehi drink in 1924. Years later the company developed a new brand, Royal Crown Cola (also known as RC Cola). By 1955, RC Cola was the company’s flagship product, so the “Nehi Corporation” became the “Royal Crown Company”. In 1954, RC Cola became the first company to sell soft drinks in cans.

8. High-tops, e.g. LACE-UPS
High-tops are athletic shoes that cover the ankles.

10. Ramallah-based gp. PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1964. The PLO’s early stated goal was the liberation of Palestine, with Palestine defined as the geographic entity that existed under the terms of the British Mandate granted by the League of Nations back in 1923. The PLO is recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people by over one hundred countries, and was granted observer status (i.e. no voting rights) at the United Nations in 1974.

Ramallah is a city located just north of Jerusalem that serves as the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority.

11. Only state with a two-vowel postal code IOWA
Iowa is the only state with two-vowel postal code (IA). A nice bit of trivia …

12. Dict. entries SYNS
Synonym (syn.)

14. Lab regulation? LEASH LAW
The Labrador (Lab) breed of dog has been around at least since 1814, and the chocolate Labrador appeared over a century later in the 1930s.

16. Iroquoian people ERIE
The Erie were an early tribe of Native Americans that lived on lands on the south shore of Lake Erie. The Iroquois tribe waged war with the Erie, basically wiping out the tribe, but for a few survivors. Some of these survivors were adopted into Iroquois tribes, particularly the Seneca nation.

17. Soap actress Sofer RENA
Rena Sofer came to prominence as an actor in daytime television, most notably playing Lois Cerullo on “General Hospital”. Sofer’s love interest on the show was played by Wally Kurth, and the online romance led to the pair walking down the aisle in real life in 1995 (although they divorced two years later).

25. Showy lily SEGO
The Sego Lily is the state flower of Utah, and is a perennial plant found throughout the Western United States.

34. Côte d’Azur view MER
In French, the Mediterranean (La Méditerranée) is a sea (mer).

The Côte d’Azur is on the Mediterranean coast of France and stretches from Saint Tropez in the west and to the Italian border in the east. In English we often refer to the area as the French Riviera. It’s a little crowded for me (okay, “expensive”), especially in the summer

37. __ operandi MODI
“Modus operandi” (plural “modi operandi”) is the Latin for “mode of operating”, a term we’ve been using since the mid-1600s. It’s often used by the police when referring to the methods typically employed by a particular perpetrator of a crime, and is usually abbreviated to “M.O.”

39. Explorer Tasman ABEL
Tasmania is the large island lying off the southeast coast of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to sail past the island, in 1642. Tasman named his discovery Van Dieman’s Land after the Governor of the Dutch East Indies, Anthony van Dieman. The name was officially changed to Tasmania, after the discoverer himself, in 1856. In Australia a more familiar name used is “Tassie”.

43. Game with 80 balls KENO
The name “Keno” has French or Latin roots, with the French “quine” being a term for five winning numbers, and the Latin “quini” meaning “five each”. The game originated in China and was introduced into the West by Chinese immigrants who were working on the first Transcontinental Railroad in the 1800s.

44. WWII weapon STEN
The STEN gun is an iconic armament that was used by the British military. The name STEN is an acronym. The S and the T comes from the name of the gun’s designers, Shepherd and Turpin. The EN comes from the Enfield brand name, which in turn comes from the Enfield location where the guns were manufactured for the Royal Small Arms Factory, an enterprise owned by the British government.

45. Rash cause, perhaps SUMAC
Sumacs are a group of flowering shrubs and small trees that includes Poison oak, Poison ivy and Poison sumac. Nasty stuff!

46. Author of epistolas PAOLO
In Italian, Saint Paul (Paolo) wrote several epistles (epistolas).

St. Paul the Apostle wrote thirteen epistles, all of which are found in the New Testament of the Bible (although authorship of some is disputed).

51. Score notation for two singers A DUE
“A due” is a musical term meaning “together”, and literally translates from Italian as “by two”.

53. Uncommon blood type, for short B-NEG
How common a particular blood type in a population varies quite a bit depending ethnicity. In general, the rarest blood type is AB-negative. The most common blood type is O-positive.

59. Brit’s fireplace INGLE
An ingle is a name for a hearth or fireplace. The word “ingle” probably comes from the Scottish word “aingeal” meaning “fire”.

62. Green Goblin portrayer DAFOE
Willem Dafoe is an American actor, from Wisconsin. He was born just plain William Dafoe, but didn’t like being called “Billy”. So, he changed his name to Willem, which was the pronunciation of his name by his Scottish babysitter. Those Scots …

The Green Goblin is a supervillain from Marvel Comics who generally is pitted against Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is the antagonist in the 2002 movie “Spider-Man”, and is played by Willem Dafoe.

64. Coins SPECIE
Coined money, as opposed to paper money, can be referred to as “specie”.

76. Slopes challenge MOGUL
Moguls are the series of bumps in the surface of snow that arise naturally as a succession of skiers make turns on a slope.

80. “Street Signs” network CNBC
“Street Signs” is a business news program on CNBC that airs at 2 p.m. each weekday.

81. Novelist Seton ANYA
Anya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton, an author of historical romances from New York City. Seton’s 1944 novel “Dragonwyck” was released into theaters in 1946 and starred Gene Tierney and Walter Huston.

83. Word in a boast VENI
The oft-quoted statement “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) is believed by many to have been written by Julius Caesar. The words date back to 47 BC and refer to the short war between Rome and Pharnaces II of Pontus.

84. Rapper __ Fiasco LUPE
Lupe Fiasco is the stage name of rap artist Wasalu Muhammad Jaco. Jaco uses his real name when performing with rock band Japanese Cartoon.

87. Parts of writers’ queries SYNOPSES
A query letter is sent by an author to an editor proposing an idea for an article or other written work. The letter includes a synopsis of the proposed work.

89. “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” Oscar nominee Cannon DYAN
The actress Dyan Cannon is perhaps best known for playing Alice in the 1969 film “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”, for which she received a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Cannon is also famous for having been on Cary Grant’s long list of wives, from 1965 to 1968 (and he was 33 years her senior).

“Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” is a 1969 movie starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon in the title roles. The film explores infidelity and wife-swapping.

94. Nashville awards org. CMA
Country Music Association (CMA)

95. “Live Young Forever” author Jack LALANNE
Jack LaLanne was a pioneer in the field of fitness and nutrition and was sometimes called “the godfather of fitness”. LaLanne was also a bodybuilder and actually beat 21-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger in competition, when LaLanne was 54-years-old …

101. Transp. group in the Loop CTA
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)

The historic commercial center of Chicago is known as the Loop. One theory is that the “loop” got its name from the cable loops in the city’s old cable car system.

102. Peter of reggae TOSH
Peter Tosh was a musician from Jamaica, a member of the Wailers reggae band. Sadly, Tosh was murdered in a home invasion and extortion attempt in 1987.

108. ’40s film critic James AGEE
James Agee was a noted American film critic and screenwriter. Agee wrote an autobiographical novel “A Death in the Family” that won him his Pulitzer in 1958, albeit posthumously. He was also one of the screenwriters for the 1951 classic movie “The African Queen”.

110. Soyuz letters CCCP
The abbreviation CCCP stands for “Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик”, which translates from Russian as “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”, the USSR.

The Russian Soyuz space program started in the early sixties as part of a plan to land a cosmonaut on the moon. The Soyuz program is still alive and kicking, and derivatives of those early spacecraft designs from the sixties are regularly visiting the International Space Station. “Soyuz” is a Russian word meaning “union”.

111. K thru 12 ELHI
“Elhi” is an informal word used to describe anything related to schooling from grades 1 through 12, i.e. elementary through high school.

113. Opposite of buck OBEY
The verb “to buck” can be used informally to mean “to object strongly, to resist obstinately”.

116. Oklahoma’s “Wheat Capital” ENID
Enid, Oklahoma takes its name from the old railroad station around which the city developed. Back in 1889, that train stop was called Skeleton Station. An official who didn’t like the name changed it to Enid Station, using a character from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King”. Maybe if he hadn’t changed the name, the city of Enid would now be called Skeleton, Oklahoma! Enid has the nickname “Queen Wheat City” because is has a huge capacity for storing grain, the third largest grain storage capacity in the world.

121. Creator of Q and M IAN
James Bond was of course the creation of the writer Ian Fleming. Fleming “stole” the James Bond name from an American ornithologist. The number 007 was also “stolen”, from the real life English spy John Dee. Dee would sign his reports to Queen Elizabeth I with a stylized 007 to indicate that the reports were for “her eyes only”.

In military circles a quartermaster is an officer responsible for supplying equipment and supplies to troops. The term “quartermaster” comes from “quartier-maître”, a ship’s officer in the French navy who was responsible for stowing cargo and supplies in the hold. In the James Bond stories, the character called “Q” is named for “quartermaster”.

The character “M” in the James Bond stories is the head of Secret Intelligence Service, also called MI6. The name “M” is chosen as a nod to former head of MI5 Maxwell Knight who routinely signed his memos simply as “M”.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Clambake trash COBS
5. Santa __ ANA
8. Blue stone, briefly LAPIS
13. Gastric maladies ULCERS
19. Award that’s a pronunciation of its initials OBIE
20. Curse HEX
21. Solder, for one ALLOY
22. Approached NEARED
23. “Whatever circus act floats your boat”? TO EACH HIS CLOWN (from “to each his own”)
26. Yacht spot MARINA
27. 1983 title character who sings “Where Is It Written?” YENTL
28. “… ain’t quite as dumb as __”: “How Long” lyric I SEEM
29. Now AS WE SPEAK
31. Pro __ TEM
33. Island east of Manila GUAM
35. First century Roman emperor OTHO
36. Assure satisfaction? CLAIM TO PLEASE (from “aim to please”)
41. Bolts LOCKS
45. Dazzle SPLENDOR
47. __-Croatian SERBO
48. Warehouse item PALLET
49. Sheikh Zayed was its first pres. UAE
50. Brain matter IDEA
52. Jostle ELBOW
54. Like Chopin’s Étude Op. 10, No. 3 IN E
55. Hand truck user MOVER
58. Pen in Patna? INDIA CLINK (from “India ink”)
62. Rodent control brand D-CON
63. Olds models ALEROS
65. “Beats me” DUNNO
66. “The Path to Love” author Chopra DEEPAK
68. Taint CORRUPT
70. Actress Samantha EGGAR
72. Mythical eagle-lion hybrid GRIFFIN
75. Supporting words GO TEAM!
77. Rimsky-Korsakov’s “__ d’Or” LE COQ
79. Chelsea’s __ Square, fashionable shopping area SLOANE
80. Gideon Fell’s creator CARR
82. Loot from a shamrock heist? CLOVER HAUL (from “overhaul”)
85. Madre’s milk LECHE
86. Storm dir. NNE
87. Onslaught SIEGE
88. Adams of “Octopussy” MAUD
90. Knight in a sitcom TED
91. “Toodles” BYE BYE
93. Reunion attendee UNCLE
97. “Octopussy,” e.g. SPY STORY
100. Body of rules CANON
101. Moviehouse that always cuts to the chase? CLIMAX THEATER (from “Imax theater”)
103. Remove X OUT
105. Iams competitor ALPO
106. Once named NEE
107. High-rent game property PARK PLACE
112. Ancient fabulist AESOP
115. Bugged a lot ATE AT
119. Hard one to argue with EGOIST
120. How some defensive boxing matches proceed? CLINCH BY CLINCH (from “inch by inch”)
123. Two-__ SEATER
124. Monotonous piece CHANT
125. History book time ERA
126. Pretender of a sort MIME
127. Revered Mother TERESA
128. Straw sources PINES
129. Bow raw material YEW
130. Sistine Chapel ceiling depiction EDEN

Down
1. Fragrance giant that went public in 2013 COTY
2. Wind with a flared bell OBOE
3. “Très __!” BIEN
4. Puget Sound city SEATTLE
5. Relaxed response AHH
6. Vintage pop NEHI
7. Turning point AXIS
8. High-tops, e.g. LACE-UPS
9. Like some choirs ALL-MALE
10. Ramallah-based gp. PLO
11. Only state with a two-vowel postal code IOWA
12. Dict. entries SYNS
13. Not realized UNMET
14. Lab regulation? LEASH LAW
15. Kind of lane CARPOOL
16. Iroquoian people ERIE
17. Soap actress Sofer RENA
18. 11-Down neighbor: Abbr. SDAK
24. Lacking heat, to a cop CLEAN
25. Showy lily SEGO
30. Trouble WOE
32. Dress length MIDI
34. Côte d’Azur view MER
36. Devious golf course feature? CLEVER GREEN (from “evergreen”)
37. __ operandi MODI
38. Forecaster’s concern TREND
39. Explorer Tasman ABEL
40. Reliable SOLID
42. Mouse user’s consideration? CLICK FACTOR (from “ick factor”)
43. Game with 80 balls KENO
44. WWII weapon STEN
45. Rash cause, perhaps SUMAC
46. Author of epistolas PAOLO
48. Fire inspirers POKERS
51. Score notation for two singers A DUE
53. Uncommon blood type, for short B-NEG
56. Goof ERROR
57. It’s not close ROUT
59. Brit’s fireplace INGLE
60. Hot state ANGER
61. Team leader COACH
62. Green Goblin portrayer DAFOE
64. Coins SPECIE
67. Dosage unit PILL
69. Account TALE
71. Go nowhere special ROAM
73. “I’d hate to be __ shoes” IN HER
74. High-maintenance NEEDY
76. Slopes challenge MOGUL
78. Put down QUASH
80. “Street Signs” network CNBC
81. Novelist Seton ANYA
83. Word in a boast VENI
84. Rapper __ Fiasco LUPE
87. Parts of writers’ queries SYNOPSES
89. “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” Oscar nominee Cannon DYAN
92. Right-angled flier BOX KITE
94. Nashville awards org. CMA
95. “Live Young Forever” author Jack LALANNE
96. Counts on EXPECTS
98. Lift STEAL
99. When to start driving? TEE TIME
101. Transp. group in the Loop CTA
102. Peter of reggae TOSH
104. Radical ULTRA
107. Under-one’s-skin type PEST
108. ’40s film critic James AGEE
109. Big laugh ROAR
110. Soyuz letters CCCP
111. K thru 12 ELHI
113. Opposite of buck OBEY
114. Ceremonial pile PYRE
116. Oklahoma’s “Wheat Capital” ENID
117. Crest ACME
118. “Well __ …” THEN
121. Creator of Q and M IAN
122. Crow cry CAW

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