Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle

[alfonzos]

This past Sunday’s L.A. Times crossword puzzle’s theme is “It’s All in the Game Show.” The editors, Rich Morris and Joyce Nicholas Lewis, deserve kudos for the following clues:

22 Across: bee home + Venus + heron kin (16 letters)
39 Across: “Star Trek” villain + mailed + light beam + take pains to avoid (15 letters)
52 Across: Sass, in slang + inferno + turkey + Babe, with a bat (15 letters)
76 Across: Legume + yank + pound sound + bee product (15 letters)
93 Across: “Cutlet meat + statute + quartet + goatee site (15 letters)
114 Across: Utter + cherish + old laundry detergent + harm (16 letters)

Solutions: “hive + goddess + egret”
“Khan + sent + ray + shun”
“‘tude+ hell + dud + Ruth”
“pea + pull + arf + honey”
“veal + law + four + chin”
“say + love + duz +injury

[Clay Zambo]

Really fun! And 103A is one letter away from fitting the theme, too.

[BrandonFG]

I got “You Don’t Say”/Mad Gab vibes from that. Very cool.