L.A. Times Crossword

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By Hoang-Kim Vu &

Wendy L. Brandes

ACROSS 1Ends of pens 5Approval from a

Lab

8Like chocolate

ganache 12Swindles 17Sound at a barbershop

salutes

18Poetic 20Pain 21Stuck

out one’s tongue as requested shop loyalty card reward close to fish preparation outbursts that are greatly appreciated? 28Not very much 29Give, as a driver’s license quickly scraping

22Coffee 24Get 25Japanese 26Noisy 30Brown 32Lemon 33Toot 36_

_ A: Italian soccer league

39Loot 41Strikes 44Bird

(out) voted “Most Likely to Succeed”?

49Like cruditŽs

50Fix, as a pet

52_ _-di-dah

53Watch closely

54Fabrication

55Signed 58Beach

up town west of Santa Monica

60AED

administrators

61Messages hidden in some brunch fare?

63Made sense of

66Atop, poetically

67Court divider

68Disgusted

syllable

69Wallach

of “The Magnificent Seven”

70Tot’s perch on a

bike

74Bit of middleschool fashion?

79Grasped 80Used

a rotary phone

82When

the dinner bell rings

83Not online, online

84Truck’s tankful

86Rollaway, e.g.

87Crack a book

88Actor Chaney

89Halloween rental

fee?

93Connect with

96Writer Calvino

97Like ta moko and

the haka

99Indy 500 family

name

100Chutzpah 103Govt.-issued IDs

105Oft-removed

throat tissues

108Delights 110Bad news at an Atlanta pie shop?

116Garb 117App 118Fishy

buyer

scoopful at a deli

119Large-horned

mammals

120Agitate 121“_ _ Brockovich”

122Teacher from

the old school?

123“Yesterday” and

“Tomorrow”

124Long fish

125Vote against

126Apple Watch

assistant

DOWN

1Blue tag?

2Pertaining to

3Jessica of TV’s

“The Sinner”

4Genus subdivision

5Some gummy

animals

6Parting mot

7Art classes?

8Corporal or private

9Potential cause of

brain freeze

10Exchanges 11Reflexive pronoun

12Onetime Volvo

rival

13Inhabitant 14“It’s _ _!”

15Predatory sharks

16With 100-Down, change one’s approach, and a hint to the circled

letters

19Accomplish a lot

with little effort

21Like potatoes

23Some tablets

27Situp’s target

31Filmmaker with a

unique style

33Bit of hardware

34One of yoga’s five

vital forces

35Piano-playing dog on “The Muppet Show”

37Puerto Rico y

Mallorca

38Abbr. in a

research paper

40“The Pioneer Woman” host Drummond

42Fragrant

compounds

43Small detail?

45“Makes sense now”

with a puppy named Tango 47In _ _: as found 68Abbr. in an email

48Course obstacle subject line 51God, in Hebrew 70Quite smart 56“You win this 71Big sandwich

hand” 72Woes 57Luge, e.g. 73Cars named for

58Convened Henry Ford’s son 59Puccini’s “La _ _” 74“Neon” fish

60Fiat 75“Cool!” 62Uncouple 76Pottery ovens

642002American 77Overact League MVP 78Mid-range voice Miguel 81Fertile soil 65Transport to Tel 84Demolish

46Muppet Aviv

85Accumulates 87Change direction 90Activity at windmills and pinball machines

out of

91Create

thin air 92Show up for 94Destroys, as

books

95Pants

measurements

98One after another

100See 16-Down

101Howe’er 102“Lux et veritas” language

Is a Feminist Issue” writer Orbach

106Sotomayor who said, “You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true”

107“Unless there

are none”

109Greek

matchmaker?

104“Fat 111Peddle 112Noemero

de leches en un postre espec’fico __ quarterback Derek

113Jai 114NFL 115Port

TVs on some