The Arizona Republic

SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD | MONSTERS INCORPORAT­ED

- BY MATTHEW STOCK, EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS

ACROSS

1 Movie that may feature a meet-cute scene 7 Components 13 Odysseys, e.g.

19 “God Is a Woman” singer Grande

20 Inviting call from a treehouse

21 Sicilian seaport

22 Just okay 24 Generation­al divides 25 One of the Big Five in Hollywood’s Golden Age 26 Name in a will 27 Befuddled gesture 29 Golfo contents

30 Hip hop dance move 32 Poorly lit

34 “Okay, that’s enough from me”

36 Hitting the market soon

40 North Carolina university

41 Nights of anticipati­on 42 Lines from an admirer 43 “Aaaand that’s mine now!”

44 Challenges

46 Smidge

47 Boatloads

49 Horde

51 Wet wipes brand 53 Historian Cobb who writes for The New Yorker 54 __ guzzler

55 The Yoko of “Dear Yoko” and “Oh Yoko!” 57 Egg __ yung 58 Madagascar primate 61 Spur to action 63 Proclaims

65 “That’s my cue!” 66 Style maven

69 “v funny”

70 Film versions made by devotees

72 Line of work for a dog walker?

73 “Misery” Oscar winner 74 Comedian Notaro 75 __-ball pens

76 Novelist Tan

77 Didn’t play

80 Keycard receivers 82 Maker of Berrybloss­om White tea 84 Balm additives 85 Nintendo console 88 “Political Gabfest” podcast producer 90 Supercharg­ed

93 Vinyl records, briefly 94 “I’d rather not” 95 __ out a win (almost lost)

96 Bread options in morning buffets

99 Ferrera of “Superstore” 101 Philosophy

102 __ skills

103 Some political campaign research, for short

104 Ashtray debris

107 South Asian rice cake 109 Ballyhoo

110 Snag in a plan

112 Strong ale brewed by Trappists in the Low Countries

117 Counter-countercul­ture folks

118 Sports venues

119 Painter Diego

120 Contemptuo­us looks 121 Fight like a country

kid

122 Tomorrow

DOWN

1 Competed in a track meet

2 Spanish gold

3 Flew south for the winter, say

4 Valet’s array 5 Low-scoring tie

6 [I’m a goat!]

7 __ box

8 Leaf-eating pests 9 Many a tax-exempt organizati­on

10 “Jeepers!”

11 Uno y dos

12 Brief meeting? 13 Argued over prices 14 La Liga cheer

15 “No siree”

16 Take longer than

necessary

17 Energize

18 Argentine singer Mercedes known for “Gracias a la Vida”

21 See 113-Down

23 “How could you even sugGEST that?”

28 Puts on the line 30 Bossa __

31 Bikini, e.g.

33 __ juice

35 Sinuous ski race 36 After taxes 37 Currency

38 Musician honored as a National Hero of

Barbados

39 Mireille of “Big Love” 45 Console

47 Spanish 101 verb 48 [What a relief!] 50 Fatty tuna, to a sushi chef

52 Topples the Jenga tower, say

53 Summer month 54 Like undercooke­d brownies

56 Many a “Call the Midwife” character 58 Brings up

59 Inbox fillers 60 Genghis Khan’s realm 62 Surname well known in Stars Hollow

63 “Black Panther” role for Chadwick Boseman 64 “Cool,” in dated slang 66 Fiver

67 Quarreling 68 “Insecure” star Rae 71 Feather __ 73 Mass-transit option 76 Bleu hue

78 Curveball element 79 Sunset dirección 81 Big A-ha moment? 83 Trip to the plate 85 Clobbered

86 __ of Wight

87 Mag. unit

89 Food

91 Antioxidan­t beverage brand

92 Thumbs-up gestures 94 38-Down, notably 97 Radio knob

98 Make quite an entrance

99 Splatter guard 100 Sticks by the pool

table

103 Possesses

105 Retro ski lift

106 Blood fluids

108 Cut with a surgical

beam

111 Cassis apéritif 113 With 21-Down, guitarist in the National Inventors Hall of Fame 114 TNT part

115 Time period often named for an art movement

116 __ down the law

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