LA Times Daily Crossword December 16, 2018 Answers

1. Pole, e.g. 5. Old toon feline with an alley gang 11. Pro Football Hall of Fame state 15. Moonwalker Shepard 19. Pad starter 20. Stir up 21. Early sci-fi captain 22. Travels randomly 23. EARTH 25. AIDE 27. Muss up, as hair 28. Soup kitchen service 30. Leave slack-jawed 32. Shrub with a purple fruit 34. Lab dish eponym 38. Workout aftermath, often 42. Grizzled seafarers 47. Harmless cyst 48. Eastern path 49. CRANED 51. You take them at your own risk 52. Kwik-E-Mart owner 53. Belief system 54. Bar assn. member 55. "Strange __ may seem ... " 56. Impediment 57. Sugar portions 58. Bookstore adjuncts 60. Inscription on a spine 61. Tickled pink 63. Tijuana toast 64. Nursery rhyme girl 65. "Snowy" sight in Florida 66. Edible pockets 67. Carried on 68. Starts over 70. Fixed looks 71. Vague discomfort 73. They aren't pros 74. More fetching 75. Some court pleas, for short 76. Forbes rival 78. Hindu titles of respect 79. Party or movie ending 80. City on the Ruhr 81. Weekly talk with a msg. 82. "Mad Men" actor Jon 83. MISO 87. La-la lead-in 88. Clothing dept. size 89. Like many an injured arm 90. Fail big-time 92. Simple type of question 94. La., once 96. Less than hardly 97. Like much FM radio 102. Keats and Shelley 106. AMOUNT 109. FIENDISH 114. Aviation-related prefix 115. Troll's cousin 116. No longer fastened 117. Region 118. Like positive outlooks 119. Heckles 120. Tennis wear 121. Oz. and lb.

1. Hospital reminder, perhaps 2. Protected side 3. In the way of 4. Patience, they say 5. House of Dana fragrance 6. Rink star and a "Catch-22" pilot 7. Backyard party centerpiece 8. Pickled veggies 9. Enzyme suffix 10. Like an increase from six to sixty 11. At some former time 12. "__ we go" 13. Mosque leader 14. Move like molasses 15. Deft 16. Bloke 17. Soothing suffix for a hot day 18. Code-breaking org. 24. Metric weight 26. Sounds at pounds 29. Hawthorne cover image 30. Get all sudsy 31. SMITE 33. El Pollo __: southwestern restaurant chain 35. RESIST 36. Stack again 37. Boot part 38. Take the main part 39. They may be lame 40. Between-courses serving 41. Silver, for one 43. Goof-ups 44. Made a scene? 45. "Why don't we?" 46. Crack 50. Some entrance requirements 51. Asian island capital 57. Gives a hoot 58. Do wedding work 59. Word said with a sigh 60. Senate wear 62. Conceit 63. Concern for a tailor 64. "Horsefeathers!" 66. Security guard's duty 67. Solidarity leader Lech 68. Without thinking 69. Cause to turn red, maybe 70. Stab 71. Iraqi city on the Tigris 72. "E" in a classic equation 74. Extended time out? 75. Abbr. on a bounced check 77. Rocky outcropping 79. Collins ingredient 80. Software pro, in want ads 84. Name in a footnote 85. A trusted friend 86. "Inferno" poet 89. New Rochelle college 91. Tech-heavy exchange 93. "In Search of..." host 95. Lively movement 98. Pretentious sort 99. Like drive-thru orders 100. Mark's replacement 101. Fwys., e.g. 103. Couture giant 104. "It __ my fault" 105. Hens and heifers 106. Galley need 107. __ volente 108. Hosp. personnel 110. Press agent's goal 111. Scrap for Rover 112. "30 Rock" creator 113. B-flats in an F major scale