LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
1 Embarrassment 6 Multi-purpose cotton
wad
10 Knack
18 Metric weights 19 Baba ghanoush
bread
20 Pals
21 Low-tech iCloud
precursor
23 Supreme effort
24 Like some wells 25 Kind of case or law 26 Batman and Robin,
e.g.
27 Loses it
31 Savvy
35 Dignify
39 Because of
42 Historic trail terminus:
Abbr.
43 Boot camp bigwig 46 Game whose “Discover the Secrets” version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell
47 Half of ASAP 50 Voyaging 51 Obstructed the
progress of 53 Literally, Latin for “it
follows”
55 Org. concerned with
alleys
57 Late bloomers
58 Shell for a crew 59 Mount once called
Tacoma
63 Stimulant
64 Org. with a lot of
baggage?
65 Billowy attire named
for an early rapper 67 Friend of TV’s
Sheldon
70 Entangle ... or
disentangle, oddly 73 Welcomed at the
door
74 VP before Gerald 76 “Blue” or “Red” cattle
dog
78 Uncertain sounds 79 Bygone data entry
method
81 Seat sometimes spun 83 Crunchy salad bit 86 Try to influence 87 Novel of the South
Seas
88 ‘60s-’70s NBC
News White House correspondent
92 Icky stuff
93 Dawdles
94 Dabs with a towel 98 Recorded
102 Like original
Matchbox cars
104 Dorm VIPs
105 Cause __: icon
108 Material used to
make cans
112 Flier’s concern
115 Manicurist’s item
118 Air
119 Green Gables girl
120 Tee off
121 Blue
122 Big name in little
trains
123 Eye drops
DOWN
1 Winter resort feature 2 Big name in hotels 3 Toward the sheltered
side 4 Hang-around-the
house footwear 5 Morales of “NYPD
Blue”
6 Willpower
7 Prevail
8 Scarfed down
9 Cave dweller
10 Did a takeoff on 11 Upgrade, as a dirt
driveway
12 Levels 13 Muhammad’s
religion
14 Drum with a sitar 15 Parisian article 16 They’re allowed 17 Rough no.
21 Wither away
22 Deli bread 23 Projecting shelf 25 Canine found in cats 28 Turn partner 29 Popeye’s __’Pea 30 Juan’s “Look!”
32 Place to spin your
wheels
33 More accurate 34 Ranked tournament
players
36 Two-time N.L. batting
champ Lefty 37 Swelter
38 Buildup in a trap 40 Triumphant cry 41 Indivisible
44 QB Jared Goff, e.g. 45 Snares
46 Ticket
47 Second in command:
Abbr.
48 “Just a few __”
49 One of two for a
positive number 52 Venomous snake 54 River through
Kazakhstan
55 Le Pew of toons
56 Bit of finishing
hardware
60 Mosque leader 61 Urquhart Castle’s loch 62 Vex
63 Eric who founded a
reader
65 Subs
66 F-series camera
maker
68 West Coast gas brand 69 Doe in many films 71 Plus
72 Review for accuracy 74 Word heard twice in
“I’m a Little Teapot” 75 Runs smoothly 76 WarnerMedia streaming service recently retired in the U.S.
77 Former Irish leader
de Valera
78 Forearm bone 80 Org. with an annual Week Without Violence
82 Muesli morsel 83 Cheese on crackers 84 With, on la carte 85 Hombre’s home 89 Death Row Records
co-founder 90 Southernmost Great
Lake 91 Vision-related
95 Don or Betty on “Mad
Men”
96 Top-10 list makers 97 WWI battle river 99 Afflicted with a
breakout
100 Tick off
101Tiny
103Fifth cen. pope called
“The Great”
106 Effortlessness 107Raised 109Cartographer’s abbr. 110Chris who plays Kirk in three “Star Trek” films
111Babe Zaharias is a charter member of its HOF
112NFL stat
113Grassy plain
114 City council rep. 115__ Geo
116“__ thoughts?” 117Business mag
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