L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Totally wiped

5 College Board exam

for jrs.

9 Fondant colorer

12 Dream big

18 Roman aqueduct

section

19 Active volcano on

Sicily

20 Timely benefit

21 Bedouin, e.g.

22 HTTP 504: Knight fails to return to castle before portcullis closes for curfew

25 Soft cotton fabric

26 Literary comparisons

27 Organs that affect

balance

28 Boutonniere

counterpart

29 Bed cover

30 “Turn up the heat!”

31 Fade, say

33 Triangles on a map,

typically: Abbr.

34 Flower in some

O’Keeffe paintings

35 HTTP 403: Knight not approved to embark on second search for the Holy Grail

40 Snap veggies

41 Sign into law

42 Push notifications

43 DOJ staffers

45 Ryan of “Star Trek:

Picard”

46 Puglia lang.

49

HTTP 419: Knight’s squire’s apprenticeship no longer in force

53 Gets fit

57 Routine material

58 Store securely

59 Blues label based in

Memphis

60 Icy layer

61 “Pressure” singer

Lennox

62 Tennis unit

65 Some fossils

67 Citi player

69 16th POTUS

70 Baby carrier

72 Spindly

74 Villain’s hideaway

76 “The Sparks Brothers” director Wright

78 Commuters’ region

80 HTTP 500: Knight fails to tip waitstaff at banquet

83 Meh

84 Lump of soil

86 Finnish tech giant

87 Lowered a lot, as

prices

90 New cadet

92 Rowdy crowds

96 HTTP 405: Knight illegally aims for opponent’s head during joust

100 French friend

101 Fairy tale meanie

102 White peg in

Battleship

103 Car port? 104 Waterfall on a doughnut production line

105 Fuel mining site

107 Angry speech

109 Toyota sedan

112 Suggest

113 Medieval protocol for knights, or an alternate title for this puzzle?

116 Rise

117 “Sadly ... ”

118 Spark interest?

119 For a __ pittance

120 Hi-fi system

121 Civil rights initialism

122 Brouhahas

123 115-Down votes

DOWN

1 Sack

2 Error remnant

3 Probiotic yogurt

brand

4 Rap anthem

By Grandmaster Flash &

the Furious Five

5 Ring out

6 Warm compress

target, maybe

7 Termite eaters

8 Mai __: cocktail

9 “Monsters, Inc.”

factory product

10 “Pinkie promise?”

11 Isengard attacker

12 Weapons expert

13 Sweet and __

14 Make the grade

15 “Better get a move

on!” 16 Royal tenures

17 “Ready Player One”

author Cline

20 Santa costume need

23 Sharp quality

24 Warrant

28 Attention

29 Swing dance move

30 “The Graham Norton

Show” airer

32 Recruit

35 Big bash

36 Agate kin

37 Speaks with a sore

throat

38 “No good __ goes

unpunished”

39 Swab for 27-Across

44 Model/activist

Holliday

45 Like tiaras

47 Parmesan

substitute

48 __ support

49 Like a sponge

50 With hands on hips

51 Teensy

52 Fishy topping

54 Goofy sort

55 Splitting tool

56 Coeval

57 Spielberg shark

thriller

59 Sister on

“Succession”

63 Flow partner

64 You, in Montréal

66 Driveway-patching

gunk

68 Actress Hatcher

71 Place for a pick-meup? 73 Cheesy layered snack

75 Keep up on the

issues?

77 One prone to histrionics, informally

79 Hershey caramel

candy

80 Faygo or Fanta

81 Get-up on Sunday

morning?

82 __ out a living

85 “Time to blow this

popsicle stand”

88 Come clean about

89 Sulky mood

90 Ninth planet, until

2006

91 Fishy topping

93 Ill-fated “Grey’s Anatomy” resident George

94 Nutty

95 Match at the poker

table

96 Coffee-and-chocolate

concoctions

97 Narcissist

98 Hypnotic state

99 Areas of expertise

104 Sen.’s domain

106 Greenhouse unit

108 Genesis figure

109 Included in an email

thread

110 “How terrible!”

111 Divests (of )

113 Uber or Lyft

alternative

114 Tampa’s st.

115 Affirmative