L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Agreed 6 Compressed video format 10 Altar constellation 13 Reach 22, in a game 17 Features of Byzantine domes

18 Retro diet, to put it mildly 19 Keaton role in “The Founder” 20 Sufficient, to the Bard 21 Coleoptera insect

24 Stir (up)

25 Copier copy: Abbr. 26 “Queen of Salsa” Cruz 27 Quaker cereal 28 Instrument in George Harrison’s “Within You Without You”

29 Beats soundly

31 Much of western Queensland

35 Select 37 Human-beast portmanteau 38 Gaggle members 39 Flabbergast

40 Basic shelter 42 Blacken

43 Gazelle cousin 48 Moscow Olympics mascot

52 Sage

53 One spotted at the zoo 55 Highlands headgear 56 Theodore Cleaver, casually

58 Like Ophelia, ultimately 61 Two-time Conn Smythe Trophy winner 62 “We’re approved!” 65 Type of center 68 Spring sign 70 Activist Davis 71 Styled after 72 Scientist with 19 Emmys 73 Sink one’s teeth into 74 Feel remorse over 75 “Jabberwocky” word meaning “evening” 79 Pride event abbr. 81 Faith with pillars 84 Long-distance exploration program

90 Math points 92 Virtual human companion 93 Joker’s prey

94 Ducks with a distinctive blue-green coloring 96 Won’t take no for an answer

99 Ill will

101 Musical work

103 Like businesses on Yelp 104 Massive hunters

105 Pilgrim to Mecca

106 When repeated, #5 on Rolling Stone’s 2007 list of “40 Songs That Changed the World” 108 Bitter __ 111 E-ZPass payment 112 Scotland native 116 Sooner State city 117 “__-daisy!” 118 Lloyd or Paul of Cooperstown 119 River to Lyon 120 Mother of Pollux 121 General on menus 122 Border 123 Vandalized, in a way

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1 Roman god of the sky 2 App symbol

3 Level for building, as land 4 Moose kin 5 Decathlon event 6 Christmas trio 7 Mood-brightening 8 Gloaming, in verse 9 Hunk

10 Like Dickens’ Dodger 11 Battle on a log

12 Low card in a wheel straight 13 B-deficiency illness 14 Baltimore NFL great 15 Comfort

16 Shake it on the dance floor

18 Buds

19 Knightley of “Bend It Like Beckham” 22 Cub Scout badge 23 Ancient pre-Iranian civilization

28 Engine power source 30 Major 1973 decision 32 No later than 33 Ecological community 34 “Yuck!”

35 Govt. health org. 36 Triumphant laugh 37 West in old movies 41 Varnish ingredient 42 Train unit

44 Be equivalent to 45 Magic act sound 46 Shirt protector 47 Emmy winner David 49 Opening

50 Site of many Dutch embassies, with “The” 51 “Famous” snack guy 54 Morse “E” 56 Earnings booster 57 Tannenbaum topper 59 Use 60 Humdinger 63 Striped cat

64 Apt

65 Big name in WWI espionage

66 Wine lover’s word 67 Problem for a sloop 69 Dig (into)

76 Troy, N.Y., school 77 Ancient region of presentday Turkey 78 Unregistered user 80 Received an AOL message 82 Longtime host of “Scientific American Frontiers”

83 Shapes

85 Coming to

86 Some calculators 87 Helper with a harness 88 And the rest: Abbr.

89 I-5, e.g.

91 NC joined it in 1861 94 Power in old films 95 “Elements” writer 96 Parental argument ender 97 “But there is __ in Mudville ... “

98 Annoyed state

100 Relaxed

101 Monopoly miniature 102 Makers of many links 103 Essen’s river

107 S-shaped molding

109 Hawaii’s state bird

110 1857 plaintiff Scott 112 His relics were the subject

of a 1970s Met exhibit 113 Niagara Falls reaction 114 Suffered from

115 Hound