Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“AUTO CORRECT” BY HOANG-KIM VU & WENDY L. BRANDES

ACROSS

1 Ends of pens 5 Approval from a

Lab

8 Like chocolate

ganache 12 Swindles 17 Sound at a

barbershop 18 Poetic salutes 20 Pain

21 Stuck out one’s tongue as requested 22 Coffee shop loyalty card reward

24 Get close to 25 Japanese fish

preparation 26 Noisy outbursts that are greatly appreciated? 28 Not very much 29 Give, as a

driver’s license 30 Brown quickly 32 Lemon scraping 33 Toot

36 __ A: Italian

soccer league 39 Loot

41 Strikes (out) 44 Bird voted “Most Likely to Succeed”? 49 Like crudités 50 Fix, as a pet 52 __-di-dah 53 Watch closely 54 Fabrication 55 Signed up 58 Beach town west of Santa Monica 60 AED administrators 61 Messages hidden in some brunch fare? 63 Made sense of 66 Atop, poetically 67 Court divider 68 Disgusted syllable 69 Wallach of “The Magnificent Seven” 70 Tot’s perch on a bike

74 Bit of middleschool fashion? 79 Grasped 80 Used a rotary phone 82 When the dinner bell rings 83 Not online, online 84 Truck’s tankful 86 Rollaway, e.g. 87 Crack a book 88 Actor Chaney 89 Halloween rental fee? 93 Connect with 96 Writer Calvino 97 Like ta moko

and the haka 99 Indy 500 family

name

100 Chutzpah 103 Govt.-issued IDs 105 Oft-removed

throat tissues 108 Delights

110 Bad news at an Atlanta pie shop?

116 Garb

117 App buyer 118 Fishy scoopful

at a deli

119 Large-horned

mammals 120 Agitate

121 “__ Brockovich” 122 Teacher from

the old school? 123 “Yesterday” and

“Tomorrow” 124 Long fish 125 Vote against 126 Apple Watch

assistant

DOWN

1 Blue tag? 2 Pertaining to 3 Jessica of TV’s

“The Sinner” 4 Genus

subdivision 5 Some gummy

animals

6 Parting mot

7 Art classes? 8 Corporal or

private 9 Potential cause

of brain freeze 10 Exchanges 11 Reflexive

pronoun 12 Onetime Volvo

rival

13 Inhabitant

14 “It’s __!” 15 Predatory sharks 16 With 100-Down, change one’s approach, and a hint to the circled letters 19 Accomplish a lot

with little effort 21 Like potatoes 23 Some tablets 27 Situp’s target 31 Filmmaker with

a unique style 33 Bit of hardware 34 One of yoga’s

five vital forces 35 Piano-playing dog on “The Muppet Show” 37 Puerto Rico y

Mallorca

38 Abbr. in a

research paper 40 “The Pioneer Woman” host Drummond 42 Fragrant

compounds

43 Small detail? 45 “Makes sense

now”

46 Muppet with a puppy named Tango

47 In __: as found 48 Course

obstacle

51 God, in Hebrew 56 “You win this

hand”

57 Luge, e.g. 58 Convened 59 Puccini’s “La

__”

60 Fiat

62 Uncouple 64 2002 American League MVP Miguel 65 Transport to Tel Aviv 68 Abbr. in an email subject line 70 Quite smart

71 Big sandwich 72 Woes 73 Cars named for Henry Ford’s son

74 “Neon” fish 75 “Cool!” 76 Pottery ovens 77 Overact 78 Mid-range voice 81 Fertile soil 84 Demolish 85 Accumulates 87 Change direction 90 Activity at windmills and pinball machines 91 Create out of thin air 92 Show up for 94 Destroys, as

books 95 Pants measurements 98 One after another 100 See 16-Down 101 Howe’er 102 “Lux et veritas” language 104 “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” writer Orbach 106 Sotomayor who said, “You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true” 107 “Unless there are none” 109 Greek matchmaker? 111 Peddle 112 Número de leches en un postre específico 113 Jai __ 114 NFL quarterback Derek 115 Port on some TVs