The los angeles times
ACROSS
1 Performs an operation, in a way
5 “One Kiss” singer
__ Lipa 8 Southwestern
building block 13 Buzzing cloud 18 Sans-__: font
style
20 Liberty Mutual’s
industry: Abbr. 21 Toyota’s luxury
division 22 Common
newspaper name 23 Saudi neighbor 24 Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero? 27 __ optics 28 Tolkien saga,
briefly
29 Forbes rival 30 Vitamin C source 31 Chicago business
district
34 Bootleg booze 36 Method of preserving souvenir tops? 42 March on
Washington fig. 43 Split __ soup 46 Most candid 47 Iris covering 49 Bring in
50 Lead
51 Activity in a Toronto pastry shop? 55 Ethiopian capital 58 Aliens, for short 59 Certain lamp
resident 60 “Breathe Me”
singer 61 Fuel-efficient
bikes
63 Bertie played by
Hugh Laurie 65 Tall tales about one’s climbing experience? 69 Many an episode of “This Is Us,” e.g.
73 Kir __: French
cocktail 74 Naughty
77 To no __: in vain 78 Tallahassee sch. 81 “Some Like It
Hot” co-star 84 Greeting that may come with barks and licks? 88 Dry Italian wine 89 __ Major 90 “Let’s go,
amigos!” 91 Concession
speech deliverer 93 School org.
94 __ drop 95 Rodent who’s really angry he missed the migration? 99 Rizzo of “Midnight Cowboy”
101 Horn of Africa
nation
102 Tubman of Judy Blume’s “Fudge” series
105 SUV stat
108 Taylor Swift’s “Look What You __ Me Do”
109 Genius Bar
tablets
114 Good-natured fun leading up to an election?
117 Gymnast
Comaneci
118 On, as an alarm 119 Garlicky
mayonnaise
120 “Da 5 Bloods”
director Spike 121 Serengeti grazer 122 John Irving’s “A Prayer for Owen __”
123 Painter
Picasso
124 AARP folks
125 Hook’s sidekick
DOWN
1 Starting from 2 __-glace: rich
sauce
3 Dull 4 Trigonometry
function 5 Cockney, e.g. 6 7UP nickname,
with “the” 7 Kutcher of
“Jobs”
8 Tide alternative 9 Sub station? 10 Team members 11 Anheuser-__ 12 Abbr. on some
cornerstones 13 Christmas Eve
visitor, familiarly 14 Shoe
measurement 15 Boy in “The Kite
Runner”
16 Eye care brand 17 Inbox fillers:
Abbr.
19 Some
evergreens 25 Pressing need? 26 Big name in water purification 32 Growth chart
nos.
33 Printing
measure 35 Portent 36 Wardrobe item on HBO’s “Rome”
37 Taters
38 Klum of “Making
the Cut” 39 Setting of the
2022 film “RRR” 40 Lymph __ 41 Fortitude 43 Smock stain 44 Bert’s BFF
45 Tick off 48 “Illmatic”
rapper
49 Just scrapes (by) 51 Crunch’s rank 52 Disable the security system for, say
53 Zilch
54 Eagerly
expectant 56 “Famous”
cookie-maker 57 Ring match 62 Polite address 63 Artful
64 Two Grants 65 Ten-time NBA AllStar Anthony, to fans
66 “Me? Never!” 67 Fourvière
locale
68 Yin counterpart 69 Escorted to the
penthouse, say 70 For all to see 71 Light wood
72 Pay stub abbr. 74 Witch craft? 75 Arcade
pioneer
76 Lounge piece 78 Subject line
abbr.
79 Old car from
Sweden
80 Fruit that’s not so
cute
82 Ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898
83 Hong Kong’s
Hang __ Index 85 Tiki bar drink 86 RSVP cards,
often
87 Sees
91 Asserts without
proof
92 Plumeria
garland
94 Illness
96 “Lara Croft: __
Raider”
97 Inbox fillers 98 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda
99 Turn red, say
100 __ vincit amor 102 Car warranty
call, usually
103 Fabled loser
104 Watson of “Little
Women”
106 “No __”: “Piece
of cake”
107 Fish organ
110 BFFs
111 Singer
Lambert
112 Have a meal
113 “Soldier of Love”
singer
115 Space
116 “About Me” info