LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Pretend
6 Came down
10 Sweets
13 Playwright Henrik 18 Jetson canine
19 Actor MacFarlane 20 92-Down base 21 Timid
22 Cleaner who doesn’t bother with corners?
25 Celeb’s entourage 26 Epic journey
27 Long skirt
28 Director DuVernay 30 Ad
31 Signature piece? 32 Encore presentation 33 Nullify
35 Army bigwigs: Abbr. 38 __ Jima
40 Nursery purchase 42 Occasion
44 Terre Haute sch. 45 Soft sounds from the
barnyard? 49 Urgent-care pro 51 Cotton thread 53 Rosary unit
54 Sporty Chevy 56 Self-image
57 Some D.C. pros 59 Many a middle
schooler
61 Family man 62 Head-scratcher
63 Fencing sword 65 Mortise inserts 67 Expert
68 Gardeners who can
tend a plot really, really fast?
72 __ de cologne 74 Deletes
76 Farm tower 77 Accommodate 80 Loving murmur 82 Trio-quartet combos 84 Rainy day gear 87 “Walk me!”
88 More faithful
89 “The Checklist Manifesto” surgeon/ author Gawande 90 Besmirch
91 D.C. subway 93 Words on a sale
poster? 97 Confidentiality
contract: Abbr. 98 “Keep your __ on!” 100 Applaud
101 __ Dhabi
102 Thickener used
in molecular gastronomy
103 Prose pieces
106 Cybersales
108 Helena hrs.
110 Tit for tat, say?
112 Furry friend
113 Broadcasts
114 Lactose-free coffee
additive
118 Literature Nobelist who served in the Irish Senate
120 Squabble over whose turn it is to get the car fixed? 123 Hard-to-handle
plants
124 Goes astray
125 Alaskan seaport
126 Earring in a Vermeer
painting 127Creme-filled cookies 128 Surname separator 129 Short “So long!”
130 Common __
DOWN
1 Burkina __: West
African country 2 Cornerstone abbr. 3 “It was nothing” 4 Understands 5 __-canceling
headphones
6 Like a used firepit 7 Allowed
8 Personal
identification? 9 Scuppered
10 With it
11 “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” novelist Vuong 12 Audacity 13 Troublemaking kid 14 Second shot 15 Interruption during
the America’s Cup? 16 Petro-Canada rival 17 Russian “no”
20 “The Princess Bride”
director
23 Fabled wish-granter 24 Outlying community 29 Info requested by
winery websites 32 Canned tomatoes
brand
34 Active Naturals skin
care brand 35 Writer who created
Pooh and Roo 36 Seoul airline
37 Race official?
39 Org. whose 2021 MVP was Jonquel Jones
41 Roof overhang 43 Easily improvised
costume
45 Math subj.
46 Shined a light on? 47 “The best is __
come”
48 Dutch painter Jan
50 __ liver oil
52 Hybrid big cat 55 Stretching muscle 58 Lake on the Nile 59 Mani-__: spa
treatments 60 Fishing line holder 64 Irksome one 66 Harlem Renaissance
novelist Larsen 69 Caffeinate, perhaps 70 Flower that sounds
like a furrier
71 River delta area 73 Kenya neighbor 75 Furriers who sound
like flowers
78 __ noire
79 Basic Spanish
infinitive
80 GoPro product,
briefly
81 Mined finds 83 Stonestreet of
“Modern Family” 85 Big picture?
86 Spill the beans
89 Plain to see 92 Ristorante dish 94 Spruces up
95 Totally face-plant 96 Poison __
99 Faucet
102 Money paid to get
money
104 Oman neighbor
105 Fixed gaze
107 Immature
comeback
109 Dance moves
110 Bygone name in toys 111 Wine label number 114 Turow book
115 Setting of the memoir “Reading
Lolita in Tehran”
116 Metallica drummer
Ulrich
117 “Friday Night Lights”
actor Chandler
119 “__-boom-bah!”
121 Anger
122 Minnesota senator
Klobuchar