Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword >>
By Hoang- Kim Vu & Wendy L. Brandes, Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
1 Ends of pens
5 Approval from a Lab
8 Like chocolate ganache
12 Swindles
17 Sound at a barbershop
18 Poetic salutes
20 Pain
21 Stuck out one’s tongue
as requested
22 Coffee shop loyalty card
reward
24 Get close to
25 Japanese fish
preparation
26 Noisy outbursts that are
greatly appreciated?
28 Not very much
29 Give, as a driver’s
license
30 Brown quickly
32 Lemon scraping
33 Toot
36 __ A: Italian soccer
league
39 Loot
41 Strikes ( out)
44 Bird voted “Most Likely
to Succeed”?
49 Like crudités
50 Fix, as a pet
52 __- di- dah
53 Watch closely
54 Fabrication
55 Signed up
58 Beach town west of
Santa Monica
60 AED administrators
61 Messages hidden in
some brunch fare?
63 Made sense of
66 Atop, poetically
67 Court divider
68 Disgusted syllable
69 Wallach of “The
Magnificent Seven”
70 Tot’s perch on a bike
74 Bit of middle- school
fashion?
79 Grasped
80 Used a rotary phone
82 When the dinner bell
rings
83 Not online, online
84 Truck’s tankful
86 Rollaway, e. g.
87 Crack a book
88 Actor Chaney
89 Halloween rental fee?
93 Connect with
96 Writer Calvino
97 Like ta moko and the
haka
99 Indy 500 family name
100 Chutzpah
103 Govt.- issued IDS
105 Oft- removed throat
tissues
108 Delights
110 Bad news at an Atlanta
pie shop?
116 Garb
117 App buyer
118 Fishy scoopful at a deli
119 Large- horned
mammals
120 Agitate
121 “__ Brockovich”
122 Teacher from the old
school?
123 “Yesterday” and
“Tomorrow”
124 Long fish
125 Vote against
126 Apple Watch assistant
DOWN
1 Blue tag?
2 Pertaining to
3 Jessica of TV’S “The
Sinner”
4 Genus subdivision
5 Some gummy animals
6 Parting mot
7 Art classes?
8 Corporal or private
9 Potential cause of brain
freeze
10 Exchanges
11 Reflexive pronoun
12 Onetime Volvo rival
13 Inhabitant
14 “It’s __!”
15 Predatory sharks
16 With 100- Down, change one’s approach, and a hint to the circled letters
19 Accomplish a lot with
little effort
21 Like potatoes
23 Some tablets
27 Situp’s target
31 Filmmaker with a unique
style
33 Bit of hardware
34 One of yoga’s five vital
forces
35 Piano- playing dog on
“The Muppet Show”
37 Puerto Rico y Mallorca
38 Abbr. in a research
paper
40 “The Pioneer Woman”
host Drummond
42 Fragrant compounds
43 Small detail?
45 “Makes sense now”
46 Muppet with a puppy
named Tango
47 In __: as found
48 Course obstacle
51 God, in Hebrew
56 “You win this hand”
57 Luge, e. g.
58 Convened
59 Puccini’s “La __”
60 Fiat
62 Uncouple
64 2002 American League
MVP Miguel
65 Transport to Tel Aviv
68 Abbr. in an email subject
line
70 Quite smart
71 Big sandwich
72 Woes
73 Cars named for Henry
Ford’s son
74 “Neon” fish
75 “Cool!”
76 Pottery ovens
77 Overact
78 Mid- range voice
81 Fertile soil
84 Demolish
85 Accumulates
87 Change direction
90 Activity at windmills
and pinball machines
91 Create out of thin air
92 Show up for
94 Destroys, as books
95 Pants measurements
98 One after another
100 See 16- Down
101 Howe’er
102 “Lux et veritas”
language
104 “Fat Is a Feminist
Issue” writer Orbach
106 Sotomayor who said, “You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true”
107 “Unless there are
none”
109 Greek matchmaker?
111 Peddle
112 Noemero de leches en
un postre espec’fico
113 Jai __
114 NFL quarterback Derek
115 Port on some TVS