SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

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Across

1 Jorts fabric

6 North Africa’s __ Mountains

11 Cranberry sites

15 TV ads for good causes 19 One who may live by the Strait of Hormuz 20 Go

21 Old Testament twin 22 Actress Wilson of “His Dark Materials”

23 “I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I … ” 27 Specimen for a volcanologist

28 Gown

29 Long Beach’s location, informally

30 “I __”: Election Day sticker

31 North Carolina university

32 Uniform accessory 33 Ambulance wailers 34 “I always wanted to be a baker, but I … ”

40 __ bar

41 German article 42 Northeastern octet 43 Show clearly

46 Small tastes

48 Vega, e.g.

49 Phony

53 “I always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I … ”

57 Undefeated boxer Laila 58 Means of access 59 Goatee spot

60 Key of Beethoven’s “Eroica”

62 Soy-based frozen dessert brand

65 Think of, as a solution 67 “__ Place”: 1990s TV drama

69 Classic Windows catchphrase

70 Bygone Dodge subcompact

71 Messy scuffle 72 Customizable Wii Sports avatar

73 “I always wanted to be a perfumer, but I … ” 81 French infinitive 83 Give more than a darn? 84 Midday

85 On the clock

86 Setting for many Stephen King novels 88 After the whistle 90 Wallpaper hanger’s calculation

91 “I always wanted to be a gardener, but I … ” 98 Sugar shack surrounders

99 Actress Mireille 100 MLB stat

101 Massive old computer

102 Amazon crime series based on Michael Connelly novels

104 Fanny pack’s spot 106 Needle a bit

109 “I always wanted to be a wedding officiant, but I … ”

113 Not aweather

114 Canine pal of Nermal and Garfield

115 British elevators 116 Pie feature

117 Young 67-Down 118 Batik artist

119 Sherwin-Williams product

120 Toast opener

Down

1 “Say So” singer __ Cat 2 Some Down Under sprinters

3 Graham in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

4 QB misfire 5 __-of-the-road

6 Pasta specification

7 Till stack

8 Muscles near delts 9 Batting stat

10 Vacillate

11 “You __!”: “Yep!” 12 Dept. of Labor arm 13 Fine __: Irish political party

14 Dine by candlelight, maybe

15 “The Canterbury Tales” character 16 Beverage brewed with solar energy

17 Go to

18 Gets rid of 24 Appliance in some hotel room closets 25 Reggae pioneer Peter 26 Like a ram or a lamb 31 Balanced

32 Curry of the NBA’s “Splash Brothers” 33 Bypass

34 Home with cells

35 Tel __, Israel

36 Main points

37 Taking action

38 Captain of industry 39 Novelist Turgenev 40 Family room 44 Pants part

45 Award quartet for John Legend, for short 47 Grapefruit wedge 48 __ guard

50 Lighting effect 51 “Poor, pitiful me!” 52 Puny parasite

54 “… __ quit!”

55 Sulu player John 56 Choose

61 Routes without tolls 62 Person of the Year designator

63 Skip over

64 So-so

65 Some med. plans 66 Company abbr. 67 Guys

68 “Frozen” sister 70 Advent

71 Ramadan, e.g. 74 Essential fatty __

75 Brooks’s country music partner

76 Gets into shape? 77 Castle trench 78 Standard

79 Koala hangout 80 Genre of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

82 Tries to live up to 87 Smart __

89 Most uncanny 91 Cooking oil option 92 Weighed in

93 “The Addams Family” uncle

94 Foot part

95 Totally worthless 96 Recipe amt.

97 Built for NASA, say 98 Athlete’s award 102 Soul mate?

103 Scrape covered with a Paw Patrol bandage, e.g. 104 Library convenience 105 Memo abbr.

106 Cowpoke’s poker

107 “Will there be anything __?” 108 Dampens 110 Drift off

111 Fjord kin

112 One of five principal resources in the game Catan