Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“HESITATIONS” JILL RAFALOFF & MICHELLE SONTARP

ACROSS

1 Secured, in a

way

6 Quick inhalation 10 Stitched loosely 16 Morsel

19 Short digression 20 Layered snack 21 Slide subject 22 Written tribute 23 Sail (through) 24 Connections 25 Milwaukee slugger who keeps striking out?

27 Put an album up

for auction? 30 Actor Neeson 31 Vuitton of

fashion

32 Start of the

Common Era 34 Senses

35 Fuel additive

brand

38 Bus. letters 39 “¿Qué pasa?” 41 Reception

problem 43 Manage, as an

art exhibit 45 Home of BTS 47 Put back 51 Sitting upon 52 Animal hospital

amenity? 56 Relocated 58 Venomous

snake 59 Iridescent gem 60 Super Bowl

XLIV MVP Drew 61 Part of GDP 63 Cardiff’s country 65 Scuffle 66 Robbery involving a diamond? 70 “Cat’s in the

Cradle” singer 74 See 13-Down 75 Guts

80 Prefix meaning

“sun”

81 Michael who plays Luis in the “Ant-Man” movies 82 Geological span 84 Supply with gear 85 C-suite member who shreds on the half-pipe? 90 Tropical tangelo 91 Accumulates, as debt 92 Trojan War epic 93 Functional 95 Maine-based retailer since 1912 98 “The Marvelous

__ Maisel” 99 Bioengineered food source, briefly

100 Fashion

monogram

101 First name of boy detective Encyclopedia Brown

104 Night noise

106 Garlicky mayo 108 Apple variety 109 Rooster? 115 Selfie taken by a financial professional?

119 Early spring

flower

120 Fast Amtrak train 121 Oil field sight

122 Scandinavia

locale

123 Motorcade

vehicle

124 Gorge

125 Draft selection? 126 Gawks

127 What “T” stands for, in video game ratings 128 Sorts

DOWN

1 Snack from a

truck

2 Beginning with 3 “La Vie en Rose”

singer Édith 4 Short-lived Ford

model

5 Largest city on the border between the U.S. and Canada

6 Like “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” 7 Many an April

birth

8 Oracle

9 Model

10 BLT part 11 Collection of love poems by Ovid

12 Were bought for 13 With 74-Across, 2021 and 2022 Emmy winner for Outstanding Comedy Series 14 Wane

15 __ es Salaam 16 “Modern Love”

singer David 17 Utopian 18 School sessions 26 Certain college

members 28 Pitched well? 29 Managed

somehow 33 Hannah of

“Roxanne” 34 Laurence who played Pops on “Black-ish” 35 Scalawag 36 Teach privately 37 Home of Brigham Young University 39 Caress, e.g. 40 Banquet

coffeepot

42 QB targets 44 Mimicked 45 Metric wts. 46 Twin of Artemis 48 Sees red? 49 Stagger

50 Irish Gaelic 53 Muffin grains 54 Crude cartel 55 Mars rover org. 57 With skepticism 62 Food drive donation, often

63 Sashimi condiment 64 Singer Green and politician Gore

65 Decimal base 67 Mtn. stat 68 Downfall 69 Christmas candle scent

70 “Moonstruck” Oscar winner

71 Half dodeca72 Smart __ 73 Burglar 76 Water color 77 Sport with an oval ball 78 Some pickles 79 Sales pitch

81 Singing voice,

informally 82 Historical spans

83 Not even 86 Sudsy spot

87 Early

Mesoamerican 88 Ventilate 89 “__ has it ... ” 94 Typical open mic performance 96 Last runner in a relay race 97 Zero chance 99 Martini with an onion 101 Heavenly scales 102 Inbox message 103 Scope 105 Custom-made things? 106 “Spirited Away” genre 107 Like bite a mosquito 110 Bagpiper’s skirt 111 Lake near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 112 Pile 113 Otherwise 114 Los Angeles team 116 Some Caltech grads 117 Boring routine 118 Sp. address