CROSSWORD LOS ANGELES TIMES

ACROSS

1 Muscles toned by planks

4 Does, e.g.

8 Goes out

swinging? 13 Longest reptile in the world 19 “Gosh, that was a long time ago”

21 Buck in the Baseball

Hall of Fame 22 Bring back

on board 23 *Canaries

24 *Bar food served with blue cheese and vegetable sticks

26 Gets slippery 28 Patronize,

as a hotel 29 Hush-hush

docs

30 Bundle of hay 32 Caustic

cleaners

34 Enter stealthily 36 *Orange flowers that represent wealth in some Asian traditions 40 __ Domani: Italian

wine brand 41 Promising

letters?

42 Really bothered 43 *“Peace Train”

singer

49 *Atlanta event for sci-fi fans 52 Actress Shawkat 53 Museum item 54 “Thumbs up”

answers 55 Smashing

success 56 Provided at

no cost 59 Wealthy

60 “r u coming

soon?”

62 Call to the

on-deck circle 64 Beads on blades 65 *Sacred Hopi

ritual

71 *Western,

slangily

73 “One Mississippi”

star Notaro 74 Dulse and nori

seaweeds, e.g. 76 __-mo video 77 Coup target 79 “You can’t do

that!” 80 Aggravate 83 Top-tier celebs 87 Basic font 89 Window shade 90 *Absurdly chaotic situation 92 *Playground

fixture 95 Russian crepes 96 Short “Stop!” 97 Vinaigrette

acronym 98 *Spray behind a

speedboat

101 Act omnipotent 104 Burkina __

105 Assns.

106 Some ballpark

figs.

107 Total accord 109 Mogadishu

resident

113 *Sheet with a

folded corner 116 *Ashtray for

trash, e.g.

120 “Let me rephrase

that ...”

121 Appointed

122 Soul mate

123 Sandwiches made with bolillos

124 Secret

rendezvous 125 Black bit inside a

papaya

126 Vietnamese New Year, which is represented by the Zodiac animals at the starts of the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Cause of

inflation 2 Graphic

designer’s deg. 3 Part of a match 4 Deli apparatus 5 Fine-tune 6 Community group with a deer logo 7 SoCal campus with Mission Revival architecture 8 Lump of goo 9 Heavy loads 10 Some boxing

punches 11 World Cup overseer: Abbr. 12 Leaves in stitches 13 Safeguard

14 Tree with flexible wood

15 Weigh, in a way 16 Main language of India

17 Heart, but not soul 18 Legendary loch 20 Use TurboTax, perhaps

25 Pool divisions 27 Easily influenced 30 “Free your pores” brand

31 __ frescas: fruity Mexican drinks 33 So far

35 Maker of eco-friendly Vero computers 36 Neat and clean 37 PC hookup 38 Rash symptom 39 Sainted pope

called “the Great” 43 Put into gear? 44 Have the

intention of 45 Thin candle 46 Drop in

pronunciation 47 More pleasant 48 Phonetic

symbol

50 __ Squad: Best Buy tech support team 51 KitchenAid

rival

52 Covered California statute, for short 57 Critical-care ctrs. 58 Club fees

61 Major Yemen

port

62 Starts

63 Quite cold

65 Cook dim

sum, say 66 Part of TNT 67 “Encore!”

68 Big deal

69 Trade pact from 1994 to 2020 70 Debussy’s

“__ de lune” 72 Casual collared

shirt

75 Sketchy

subject? 78 Waiting room

directive

80 Digs in the

snow 81 Versailles

residents 82 Philosopher

Immanuel

84 Pet pendant 85 Tractor-trailers 86 Plug away (at) 88 Impose, as a tax 91 Hair __ 93 Cultured

products? 94 Bret with four Gold Gloves 95 Red Sox, on scoreboards 98 Hot spots 99 Got going 100 “Judge Judy” event

101 Product pitch 102 Light brew 103 Failed to

104 Like bubble baths

106 Make a long story short? 108 Trade jabs 110 Makes a choice 111 Bog down

112 Shivering fit 114 “Blonde” star de Armas

115 Summer hrs. in Philly

117 Kiddo

118 “Or so __ heard” 119 Pickleball need