The los angeles times

ACROSS

1 Beach community near Tourmaline Surfing Park 8 Bear claw or

beaver tail 14 Hunk of granite 18 Seething 19 Former first lady,

familiarly 20 Room

21 Big name in health insurance associations 23 Foam art

medium 24 Lacking

25 Like many Etsy

shops

26 “Don’t change a

thing!”

28 Mirror fogger 31 Old Pontiac

muscle car 32 Long time 34 Tabloid twosome 35 Quaint

emporium 41 “The Voice”

coach Gwen 45 Measles

symptom

46 Pop star 47 Preschool activity with crayons

51 Bogus

53 Big exporter of

saffron 54 Tart-tasting fruit 55 Firewood

protector 58 Nintendo

princess

59 Sheet type 62 Mmes., in Mérida 64 Electronic control mechanisms, briefly

66 Base for some

sashimi

67 Go it alone 70 Actress Vardalos 73 Squanders 74 Entwined

75 Line that intersects a circle in two places 77 Threedimensional 80 61-Down follower 82 Belgian surrealist

Magritte

84 “Hold __ your

hat!”

85 Like pedishowing shoes 87 Hopeful expression after two failures 91 Lemon drinks 92 European capital known as the “City of a Hundred Spires” 95 Melodic

passages

96 Tony Awardwinning musical based on a Manuel Puig novel

101 Like the Atacama

Desert

102 __ port in a

storm

103 Mork’s planet

104 Software test

versions

108 “__ Files”: longrunning truecrime series

111 Structural girder 113 __ snuff

115 WWII sub

116 Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo

121 Where Ducks and Penguins play?

122 Diehards

123 Same old same

old

124 Garlands of okika

or pikake

125 Star-shaped

bloomers

126 Prodded

DOWN

1 Culture

centers?

2 Book replaced by

GPS

3 Short excursion 4 Like Nero Wolfe 5 Cured salmon 6 Ad follower 7 Penne __ vodka 8 Turn down 9 Heading for the

whirlpool, say 10 Enjoy Stowe 11 Knotted

accessory 12 Repaired, as car

brakes

13 Jedi who said, “Always in motion is the future”

14 Extras in trunks 15 Newer, as an

automobile 16 When Alexander meets Eliza, in “Hamilton” 17 Borscht base 19 Passat

alternative 20 Roulette wheel

components 22 Craving

27 “Same for me!” 29 Many miles off 30 Cable series about an erotic magazine for women

32 Put forth, as

energy

33 Med. condition portrayed on “Monk”

36 French wines 37 Beats by __ 38 Amateur

39 Map line 40 Spanish “she” 41 Hugo Award

genre 42 Cheerio-shaped 43 Make happy 44 Arial, for one 48 Belfast’s

province 49 Despondent 50 “Ivy and __”: kid-lit series by Annie Barrows 52 Breakout area, to

dermatologists 56 “Yours”

alternative 57 Deal with an email error message, maybe

60 On the money