The los angeles times
ACROSS
1 Printer supply 4 Stretch often named for a leader
7 __ Fresh: fastcasual Tex-Mex chain 11 Overthinks
things, say
19 Like many
bathmats 21 Legend
22 Cheap digs 23 Rip-roarin’ 25 Selected during Duck, Duck, Goose, say 26 Create an outstanding design? 27 Foreboding 29 Lacking 30 Knitting __ 32 Actor Carell 36 Designer initials 39 PBS painter Bob 41 Kiosk at some wedding receptions
46 “I’ll take that
as __”
47 Vellani who plays Kamala Khan on “Ms. Marvel” 49 Great Plains
people
51 Drops in 52 “Changing the
subject ... “56 Spot for primer and shadow, maybe
57 March family
creator 58 Theater
backdrop 59 Forum admin 61 River near the
Great Pyramid 62 “Ouch!” 64 “Ben-__”
65 Bro kin
66 Kenan Thompson’s show, for short 67 More than a little mentally fatigued 72 Tuba sound 74 Function 75 Appear in print 76 Took away from,
as profits 80 Painter Magritte 81 “Barry” network 82 “The Naked
Chef” chef Oliver 84 Pop singer
Britney
85 Golden years 87 Staley Da Bear,
for one
90 Mosaic piece 92 Writer Silverstein 93 Banana skin 94 Palette choice 95 Blank
expression? 97 Hard to find 99 Tolkien series, to
fans
100 Lauder of
cosmetics
101 Standing Rock
people
104 Goes back out 108 Slept soundly
after a big day 112 Gilda who won an Emmy for 66-Across
116 Documentary photographer Lange
120 Slow-moving
tree-dweller
122 High-stakes gridiron situation, and a feature of eight long puzzle answers
123 Playpen cry
124 Effectiveness
125 Cultural
sphere
126 Fitbit unit
127 Whiz
128 Sounds of
understanding
DOWN
1 Memo phrase 2 Meal- and exercise-tracking app 3 Gearshift topper 4 Renée __ Goldsberry of “Girls5eva” 5 Wash out
6 On point 7 Ecological
communities 8 Play opener 9 Become a
member
10 __ Domini 11 Decides one will 12 Feathery
neckwear 13 Longtime
NASCAR sponsor 14 Super vision? 15 Women
16 Pop
17 School near
Windsor
18 Fed. IDs 20 Emotionless 24 Semi-oxidized
teas
28 Arena attendant 31 “Aw, nuts” 33 “Arrival” arrivals 34 Cast a ballot 35 Member of a TikTok subculture
36 __ Lama 37 Genuflected 38 Top-__ 40 “Couldn’t agree
more”
41 Audre Lorde
creation
42 Like a liberal commercial aviation agreement
43 K.T. of country
music
44 Govt. security 45 Jekyll’s
counterpart 47 Preface, briefly 48 Words to live by 50 Not great,
quality-wise 53 Gulf Coast region 54 Earthy colour 55 Radiate
60 Dept. of Labor
div. 63 Ticket leftover 65 Justice
Sotomayor 68 “That __ no
concern to you” 69 Short-form blog
platform 70 Homecoming cry 71 Mountainous
Asian republic 72 Co-owner of the
Pequod 73 “Consequently ...
“
77 Chip to dip 78 Brook swimmer 79 Blender brand 80 Flatbread made
with atta flour 81 Deli subs
82 Civil rights
leader Lewis 83 Madrid museum 86 __ pool
88 Willow variety 89 Onion kin
91 NFL passing stat 96 Three-faced
Greek goddess 98 Pub device 99 Soup scoop
102 Surgeon,
informally
103 Sample
104 Classic Icelandic
saga
105 Unrefined one 106 Champagne
choice
107 Breaks down
109 Spots for checks
and balances? 110 Whack
111 Browser button 113 “Strega __”: Tomie dePaola Caldecott Honor book
114 Set in stone, say 115 Matthew of “The
Americans”
117 Coddling, for
short
118 Giggle
syllable
119 Seemingly
forever
121 Clean Air Act org.