Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Lawn game similar to pétanque

6 iPad download 9 Tear 13 Old-Fashioned

option 17 Post-surgery

regimen

18 In close combat 20 Ton o’ 21 Southwestern snapshot gallery?

23 Like Chartres

Cathedral 24 Drummer Ringo 25 Inert gas 26 Diver’s need 27 “Cool your jets” 30 Alerts to some party planners that their guests have arrived? 33 Red tide bloom 34 Drag show

accessory 35 Puts in

36 __ tie

37 Skating biopic starring Margot Robbie 40 Ending for subor ex42 “Nailed It!” host Nicole 43 “Over the Rainbow” composer 44 One searching for a river crossing? 47 __ blues: genre that originated in Mississippi 49 Actor Mahershala 50 Yale grads 52 “Look on the bright side!” 56 Troves of getting-to-knowyou questions? 64 Audio giant 65 Passage cleared by a neti pot 66 PBS-funding org. 67 Play-__

68 Like lechón asado

69 “No ifs, __, or buts” 70 Flipped bar tables? 75 Private aye 77 Daredevil Knievel 78 “Beach House” singer Carly __ Jepsen 79 Fawned (over) 82 Veto a very large corsage? 89 Some IRAs 92 Vampire’s curfew 94 Nursery cry 95 French star 96 Pointless event at the Olympics? 97 Napa product 98 Small slitherer 100 Last president to keep a White House cow 101 Entertainment at a tailgate party? 107 __ mitzvah 108 Guarantees 109 Meat salad in Lao cuisine 110 Pontificate 112 Lay into 113 Political movement against free enterprise, or a way of reading this puzzle’s long answers? 118 Rummikub pieces 119 Familiar turf 120 Hyper 121 Rich rocks

122 Agape 123 Many OCS grads 124 Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir “Just As I Am”

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1 Wireless support, maybe 2 Ref. that could be considered hi-def.? 3 Comedian Margaret 4 Taxi waiting area 5 “Likely story” 6 Pulsating 7 Wretch 8 Veterinary patient 9 Thorny flowers 10 Set of values 11 When the sun is highest 12 Bank acct. addition 13 “I’m normally more humble than this ... ” 14 Gas additive 15 Excited 16 Includes 19 Color quality 20 Epithet for Shiva 22 Oom-__ 23 Tour stops 26 Tennis great Agassi 27 Oliver Twist, for one 28 Palo __, California 29 Assistant with a hunch? 31 __ chips 32 Picked out of a lineup, briefly 38 Quite a spell 39 Wheel shaft 41 Male title derived from “brother” 42 Hat edge 43 Supped 45 Steinway instrument 46 Above-the-street trains 48 Scale divs. 51 Pro or con 53 Basketball commentator Rebecca w/o delay 54 55 Cozy spots 56 “Mercy me!” 57 French film 58 Winds down 59 Plans to go public? 60 Actor Watanabe 61 Roof overhang 62 Japanese drama 63 __ party 68 Storage box 70 __-Magnon 71 Tony-winning musical “Dear __ Hansen” 72 Nero Wolfe creator Stout 73 Oodles 74 “Mercy Mercy Me” singer 76 Apple platform 80 Takes care of a draft 81 Great __ 83 Sheep trills 84 “You’re too kind!” 85 Rotund stove 86 “Glass Onion” filmmaker Johnson 87 88 89 __ sports Hairy Cite Romeo: legend car 90 Like summer many concerts 91 __ strength: measure of tolerance 93 “Let’s see ... ” 97 Noisy bird in a dome-shaped nest 99 Hazards 102 Bow-toting deity 103 Tempting in Wonderland words 104 Bawled 105 School basics 106 Lab rodent 111 Stretched thin 113 Cry of discovery 114 IM pioneer 115 “__ Raining Them”: Mila Jam remake celebrating the gender spectrum 116 Sign for a crowded house 117 Guy