L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD Building vocabulary

ACROSS

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 NL 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

101 Tiny

103 Fifth cen. pope called “The

Great”

106 Effortlessness

107 Raised

109 Cartographer’s abbr. 110 Chris who plays Kirk in

three “Star Trek” films 111 Babe Zaharias is a charter

member of its HOF 112 NFL stat

113 Grassy plain

114 City council rep.

115 __ Geo

116 “__ thoughts?”

117 Business mag