L.A. Times Crossword

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1Paintball garb 5Mason jar, in a pinch

9Cape _ _

12Pink quaff,

informally

17Blonde brews

18Tightwad 19“Absolument!” 20Playful backand-forth

21Paid one’s respects to Charlie Brown and Snoopy?

24DeBose of “West Side Story”

25Confessional

music genre

26Low-power mode

27Bruins great Bobby

28Mete out

29Sack of old

clothes, perhaps

31Good name for a salon offering a sweet treat with every haircut?

35Profit opposite

36Dakar’s locale

37“Save me _ _”

38Trees used to make some Fender guitars

41Reggae kin

42Complete, as a

PDF contract

44General with a chicken dish

45Tech for toddlers

to play with?

49Lawyer’s gp.

50Link letters

51Disney role for

Kristen Bell

52Loophole 53Select with care

55“Elf” actress

Deschanel

57Rapper MC _ _

58“Better Call _ _”:

AMC drama

60“I smell trouble”

61Goes “vroom”

62TV pilots that soar?

67“The Five Second Rule,” e.g.

68Fullness of flavor

69Dorm unit

70Balancing pro

73Exceptional 75Cow house

76Calico coat

77Not single-sex

78“Language!” elicitor

79Insurance market reform law, initially

81Like the birthday money from Grandma to a responsible kid?

85“Ready when

you _ _!”

86Is too sweet

88Sumi-e medium

89Takes in

90Soul singer Hutson 92Blotchy 95Journeys home?

96Nice vengeful

spirits?

98Monty Python’s “The _ _ of Silly Walks”

102Team race

103“How bizarre”

104Glue 105Break ground?

106Cream

container 108Discussion

board with topics like “How to get back to your home planet”? 111Wilts 112The Guardians of the MLB, on scoreboards

113Sturdy 114Glam gala

115Preserves, as

beef

116Slow start?

117Skin concern

118Many a new

driver DOWN 1Scoped out for a

heist

2Budget rival

3Fruit served with

prosciutto

4Brutus Buckeye’s

sch.

5TikTok uploads

6Roaring Fork River

city

7Ooze

8Bullpen stat

9Tasting menu unit

10“This is an _ _!”

11Put down

12Aid in obtaining a

Passport? 13Soffritto

ingredient 14Oscar, for one 15All eleven of “Ocean’s Eleven” 16British singer Rita 18Actress

McCarthy 20Like worn-out

tires

22Noisy weather event, briefly

23Hands-up time

28Respond in an improv class

30Amazon Echo assistant

31Academic VIP

32_ _ spray

33Delicious 34“Enough!” 36Burlesque bit

38Not even close

39Road division

40“Beats me”

41Only NFL coach with a perfect season

43Garden structure

46Well-mannered 47Egg-laying

mammal

48Like a beachfriendly day

50Podcast

presenter

54Roleo surface

56Egg cell 58Eye sore 59Celestial 60Stenches

61Result of a corp. audit, perhaps

63Diamond experts

64Org. that pits Grizzlies against Pelicans

65“_ _ on You”: Luke

Bryan hit

66Use a Brillo pad,

say

71Ivy in Philly 72Puts into the mix

73More reliable

74Problem not caused by the computer

75Catfish habitat

76Discover 77Fire-walking materials

78Soleus muscle location

80Like jammies

82Strives (for)

83Not on the level

84Conviction

86One-eyed

monster

87Goes for a walk

91Pickup capacity

93Straightens (up)

94Journo’s article

opening

95Fish out of water

97Composer

Zimmer

98Sends off

99Midafternoon 100Waze

suggestion

101Red Sea country

104Cunning ruse 106Yellow Book org.

107Like one in a queerplatonic relationship, for short 108Big name in bandages 109Foreign policy gp. 110Many a time, in verse