Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

BUILDING VOCABULARY

ACROSS

1 Embarrassment 6 Multi-purpose

cotton wad 10 Knack

18 Metric weights 19 Baba ghanoush

bread

20 Pals

21 Low-tech iCloud

precursor 23 Supreme effort 24 Like some wells 25 Kind of case or law 26 Batman and Robin,

e.g.

27 Loses it

31 Savvy

35 Dignify

39 Because of 42 Historic trail

terminus: Abbr. 43 Boot camp bigwig 46 Game whose “Discover the Secrets” version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell 47 Half of ASAP 50 Voyaging 51 Obstructed the

progress of 53 Literally, Latin for “it

follows”

55 Org. concerned

with alleys

57 Late bloomers 58 Shell for a crew 59 Mount once called

Tacoma 63 Stimulant

64 Org. with a lot of

baggage? 65 Billowy attire named for an early rapper

67 Friend of TV’s

Sheldon 70 Entangle ... or

disentangle, oddly 73 Welcomed at the

door 74 VP before Gerald 76 “Blue” or “Red”

cattle dog 78 Uncertain sounds 79 Bygone data entry

method

81 Seat sometimes

spun

83 Crunchy salad bit 86 Try to influence 87 Novel of the South

Seas

88 ’60s-’70s NBC News White House correspondent 92 Icky stuff 93 Dawdles

94 Dabs with a towel 98 Recorded

102 Like original

Matchbox cars

104 Dorm VIPs

105 Cause __: icon

108 Material used to

make cans

112 Flier’s concern

115 Manicurist’s item 118 Air

119 Green Gables girl 120 Tee off

121 Blue

122 Big name in little

trains

123 Eye drops

DOWN

1 Winter resort

feature

2 Big name in hotels 3 Toward the

sheltered side 4 Hang-around-thehouse footwear 5 Morales of “NYPD

Blue”

6 Willpower

7 Prevail

8 Scarfed down 9 Cave dweller 10 Did a takeoff on 11 Upgrade, as a dirt

driveway 12 Levels 13 Muhammad’s

religion

14 Drum with a sitar 15 Parisian article 16 They’re allowed 17 Rough no. 21 Wither away

22 Deli bread 23 Projecting shelf 25 Canine found in

cats

28 Turn partner 29 Popeye’s __’Pea 30 Juan’s “Look!” 32 Place to spin your

wheels

33 More accurate 34 Ranked

tournament players 36 Two-time N.L.

batting champ Lefty 37 Swelter

38 Buildup in a trap 40 Triumphant cry 41 Indivisible

44 QB Jared Goff, e.g. 45 Snares

46 Ticket

47 Second in

command: Abbr. 48 “Just a few __” 49 One of two for a

positive number 52 Venomous snake 54 River through

Kazakhstan

55 Le Pew of toons 56 Bit of finishing

hardware 60 Mosque leader 61 Urquhart Castle’s

loch

62 Vex

63 Eric who founded a

reader

65 Subs

66 F-series camera

maker

68 West Coast gas

brand

69 Doe in many films 71 Plus

72 Review for

accuracy

74 Word heard twice in

“I’m a Little Teapot” 75 Runs smoothly 76 WarnerMedia streaming service recently retired in the U.S.

77 Former Irish leader

de Valera 78 Forearm bone 80 Org. with an annual Week Without Violence

82 Muesli morsel 83 Cheese on

crackers

84 With, on la carte 85 Hombre’s home 89 Death Row

Records co-founder 90 Southernmost

Great Lake 91 Vision-related 95 Don or Betty on

“Mad Men” 96 Top-10 list makers 97 WWI battle river 99 Afflicted with a

breakout

100 Tick off

101 Tiny

103 Fifth cen. pope

called “The Great” 106 Effortlessness

107 Raised

109 Cartographer’s

abbr.

110 Chris who plays Kirk in three “Star Trek” films

111 Babe Zaharias is a charter member of its HOF

112 NFL stat

113 Grassy plain

114 City council rep. 115 __ Geo

116 “__ thoughts?”

117 Business mag