L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Abacus unit 5 Brother of Lucrezia Borgia 11 Lipstick shade 15 Insignificant 19 Drivetrain component 20 Rhododendron variety 21 Sport with masks 22 “Cake Boss” competitor, at times

23 Usually retrospective assessment

25 Cop (to), as a lesser charge

27 Service that manages network messages 28 Ingenuous one 29 Kemper who plays Kimmy Schmidt

30 Feed a line

31 “About time!”

34 Grabs with a toothpick 35 Brazen crime time 40 Palate-cleansing serving 41 Way to go

42 Winds into rings 43 Common scale extreme 44 Cathedral section 45 Shade of pink

46 It’s often designed to rise 53 Pull in

54 Zebra mom

55 Sound quality?

57 First Nations tribe 58 Cash or credit, e.g. 59 California county or its seat

60 Pub orders

62 Kilt features

65 South Beach, say

68 Ribs

69 It isn’t negotiable 70 “That’s not true!”

71 Go over 72 Barcelona-born muralist 73 Lightly washed 75 Comedy club sound 76 Old school dance

79 Tire measurement that can be checked by the “penny test”

82 “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie” author 84 “Arbitrage” actor 85 Apples run on it 86 Bush, for one 87 Where van Gogh painted “Sunflowers”

88 Letter writing, sadly 92 Place to buy a train ticket 95 Fifth-century conqueror 96 Washington airport 97 Sushi bar offering

98 Put away for later 99 Unveiling shout

100 Showbiz honors

106 Buffet stack item

108 Combine ... and a hint to what’s hidden in eight long answers

110 Had to fork over

111 Letters before a viewpoint 112 Lowlife, slangily 113 Actress Watson 114 Pollster’s enc. 115 Ravioli filling 116 “Hear me out” 117 Resale caveat

DOWN

1 Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You __”

2 Class struggle? 3 “Same Time, Next Year” actor

4 Inscribe personally 5 Hidden

6 Basso Pinza

7 Fresh words 8 Carrier with a hub in Fiumicino

9 1906 Runabout, e.g. 10 Suffix with Jacob 11 Meal 12 Illuminated indirectly 13 Complaint

14 Word of support

15 “The Rose” singer

16 Big name in food safety 17 Do some electrical updating

18 Gallo family brother 24 Lose, as a tail 26 Be contingent (on) 28 “Doubt it”

32 Cash holders 33 Some HDTVs

34 Place for a rototiller 35 Fiber source 36 Boxing ring boundary 37 Kick out

38 Nut with a hat

39 Time long past

40 Stick it out 45 Protest principle

46 __ B’rith

47 Smelly 48 Nouveau-Mexique, par exemple

49 Vast expanse 50 “Topaz” novelist 51 Code carrier 52 Company with toy trucks 54 Sunbeam floater 56 Watts at a keyboard 58 1990s trade acronym 60 Annual parade VIP 61 Sign of remorse 62 Subtle summons 63 Look the wrong way? 64 Raison d’__

65 Wig out

66 “It __ Necessarily So”: Gershwin song 67 Smidgen

71 More or less, informally 73 Interval of inactivity 74 “Don’t You Know?” singer Reese

75 City near the CaliforniaNevada border

76 Pitch in

77 Cookie with a Thins Bites variety

78 Bug or brat 80 Increased in intensity, with “up”

81 Kid-vid explorer 83 Lines at the grocery 84 Beverage with antioxidants 86 Sizable hole

87 Really fancy 88 Catchers on the range 89 North American capital, or its river

90 Some wraps 91 Vehement speech 92 Sizzling

93 Battery choice 94 Jackie Paper’s imaginary friend is one 96 Recent White House daughter

99 Smartphone display 101 Newsroom cancellation 102 Roll with the punches 103 Electrical units

104 Patrick’s “Ghost” co-star 105 Ladies of Sp.

107 Barely lit

108 Knee injury initials 109 Nike’s __-FIT fabric