SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
| WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES
ACROSS
1 Timely blessing
5 Rounds before the finals, for short
10 Farm yield
14 Kudos at a poetry slam
19 Batgirl garment
20 Glazer of “Broad City”
21 Chicago MLS team
22 __ noir
23 Meditate (on)
24 Shout to an FBI agent investigating the wrong fellow?
27 Cherry-topped dish
29 Travel pillow spot 30 Meh
31 “Now, where __ we?”
32 Taco topping
34 Long who plays Steve on “PEN15”
36 Helps
38 “The polygraph is rigged!,” e.g.?
43 NAACP co-founder __ B. Wells
44 Informal meeting?
45 Piggy bank opening 46 Sound like autumn leaves
50 “We should!”
52 “What's your __?”
55 Smidgen
57 “Broken Arrow” director John
58 Fertile desert spot 60 “RuPaul's Drag Race” prize money?
65 __ Gatos, California
67 London stroller
68 Planet __: gym chain
69 Intro to typing?
72 “Get __ of this!”
75 Suit bottoms
76 At an angle
77 Sheet of ice
79 Maker of Calling All Goddesses! nail polish
80 Like philosophers who can't find their way home?
85 Fern-to-be
89 Spot-on
90 BBQ side
91 Trauma specialist, for short
93 Fed. power dept.
94 Past
98 Airbnb alternatives
100 Scent
102 Former quarterback Manning
103 Hype that just goes on and on and on?
108 Word with high or tech
110 __ bargain
111 Penélope Cruz's birthplace
112 Dull pain
113 Fingers-crossed thought
116 Ice cream brand
118 Database systems giant
121 Put off fulfilling a campaign promise?
125 Churn up
126 Chilling
127 33-Down animal who loses because of a nap
128 “Four Quartets” poet
129 Clock toggle
130 Use foul language
131 Ensnare
132 Flavors, in a way
133 Large bodies of water
DOWN
1 Quietly keeps in the loop
2 Waimea Bay island
3 Available options when booking a flight
4 Pop up a lot?
5 Evade
6 “Xanadu” gp.
7 Leslie of “This Is 40”
8 Whole
9 Lyric poet of Lesbos
10 Corp. money exec
11 Messy barbecue fare
12 Cookie used as a froyo topping
13 Took care of a boxer?
14 Mud bath venue
15 Birdbrains
16 __ hair pasta
17 Decants
18 Eye ailment
25 Brings up
26 Emulate a drone
28 Sudsy mugfuls
33 Storyteller whose tales usually feature talking animals
35 Illuminated from below
37 Tempe sch.
38 Stitch's human companion
39 Brainchild
40 Cricket sound
41 Place for solar panels
42 Cleveland Browns great __ Graham
47 Twitter message
48 Fine-grained soil
49 Many ages
51 Like some partners
53 “Julie & Julia” writer/director Ephron
54 Cookware brand
56 Kennel racket
59 Kinda
61 “Later!”
62 “Chilombo” Grammy nominee Jhené __
63 Cotton swabs
64 Not ready to eat
66 Not hidden
69 Ski resort feature
70 Yummy
71 Chances
73 Body cream additive
74 Gloomy
76 Big chunk
78 Forest moon that's home to the Ewoks
81 Ballet move
82 Sound off
83 Admit (to)
84 Extinct Mauritian birds
86 Like a family with a stay-at-home dad
87 Move for one's co., say
88 “The Night Circus” novelist Morgenstern
92 Handles food waste ecologically
95 Sister of Laertes
96 Opposite of paleo
97 Flood with chocolate syrup, say
99 "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" cat
101 T. rex's “I'm going to eat you!”
104 Predicament
105 Rocky projections
106 Bribe for airtime
107 Glittery accessories
108 Carpentry fastener
109 Job jar assignment
112 Copies
114 Take the lead?
115 Youngest daughter of Cronus
117 Breeze (through)
119 “Future Nostalgia” singer Dua __
120 Stately trees
122 Atop, poetically
123 Gym unit
124 Movie filming site