SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
BY PAM AMICK KLAWITTER, EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS
Across
1 Performs an operation, in a way
5 “One Kiss” singer __ Lipa 8 Southwestern building block
13 Buzzing cloud 18 Sans-__: font style 20 Liberty Mutual’s industry: Abbr.
21 Toyota’s luxury division 22 Common newspaper name
23 Saudi neighbor
24 Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero? 27 __ optics
28 Tolkien saga, briefly 29 Forbes rival
30 Vitamin C source 31 Chicago business district
34 Bootleg booze 36 Method of preserving souvenir tops?
42 March on Washington fig.
43 Split __ soup
46 Most candid
47 Iris covering
49 Bring in
50 Lead
51 Activity in a Toronto pastry shop?
55 Ethiopian capital 58 Aliens, for short 59 Certain lamp resident 60 “Breathe Me” singer 61 Fuel-efficient bikes 63 Bertie played by Hugh Laurie
65 Tall tales about one’s climbing experience? 69 Many an episode of “This Is Us,” e.g.
73 Kir __: French cocktail 74 Naughty
77 To no __: in vain 78 Tallahassee sch. 81 “Some Like It Hot” co-star
84 Greeting that may come with barks and licks?
88 Dry Italian wine
89 __ Major
90 “Let’s go, amigos!” 91 Concession speech deliverer
93 School org.
94 __ drop
95 Rodent who’s really angry he missed the migration?
99 Rizzo of “Midnight
Cowboy”
101 Horn of Africa nation 102 Tubman of Judy Blume’s “Fudge” series 105 SUV stat
108 Taylor Swift’s “Look What You __ Me Do” 109 Genius Bar tablets 114 Good-natured fun leading up to an election? 117 Gymnast Comaneci 118 On, as an alarm 119 Garlicky mayonnaise 120 “Da 5 Bloods” director Spike
121 Serengeti grazer 122 John Irving’s “A Prayer for Owen __” 123 Painter Picasso 124 AARP folks
125 Hook’s sidekick
Down
1 Starting from 2 __-glace: rich sauce 3 Dull
4 Trigonometry function 5 Cockney, e.g.
6 7UP nickname, with “the”
7 Kutcher of “Jobs” 8 Tide alternative
9 Sub station?
10 Team members 11 Anheuser-__
12 Abbr. on some cornerstones 13 Christmas Eve visitor, familiarly
14 Shoe measurement 15 Boy in “The Kite Runner”
16 Eye care brand 17 Inbox fillers: Abbr. 19 Some evergreens 25 Pressing need?
26 Big name in water purification
32 Growth chart nos. 33 Printing measure 35 Portent
36 Wardrobe item on HBO’s “Rome”
37 Taters
38 Klum of “Making the Cut”
39 Setting of the 2022 film “RRR”
40 Lymph __
41 Fortitude
43 Smock stain
44 Bert’s BFF
45 Tick off
48 “Illmatic” rapper 49 Just scrapes (by) 51 Crunch’s rank 52 Disable the security system for, say
53 Zilch
54 Eagerly expectant 56 “Famous” cookie-maker
57 Ring match
62 Polite address 63 Artful
64 Two Grants 65 Ten-time NBA All-Star Anthony, to fans
66 “Me? Never!”
67 Fourvi re locale
68 Yin counterpart 69 Escorted to the penthouse, say
70 For all to see
71 Light wood
72 Pay stub abbr. 74 Witch craft?
75 Arcade pioneer 76 Lounge piece 78 Subject line abbr. 79 Old car from Sweden 80 Fruit that’s not so cute 82 Ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898
83 Hong Kong’s Hang __ Index
85 Tiki bar drink
86 RSVP cards, often 87 Sees
91 Asserts without proof 92 Plumeria garland 94 Illness
96 “Lara Croft: __ Raider” 97 Inbox fillers
98 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda
99 Turn red, say
100 __ vincit amor
102 Car warranty call, usually
103 Fabled loser
104 Watson of “Little Women”
106 “No __”: “Piece of cake” 107 Fish organ 110 BFFs
111 Singer Lambert 112 Have a meal 113 “Soldier of Love” singer
115 Space
116 “About Me” info