LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 West Coast wine

region

5 “It __ me” 10 Mythical beast 14 Flower with hips 18 Tandoor, e.g. 19 Skateboard trick 20 Mouth-y?

21 Stack next to a

boombox

22 Screen time? 25 Narrowly avoid 26 Tapped container 27 Small sip 28 Departure spot 29 Knock-__ 30 Smidge

31 Not pizzicato 33 Ilhan of Congress 34 Die dot

35 “Empire” actress

Long

37 Aches and pains 39 Like 33-Across 41 Face time?

45 Food with a Peruvian holiday in its honor

48 Line of sight? 49 Green gamers

50 “I reject your offer” 52 “Pronto!”

53 Inflicts on 55 Deceive verbally 56 Cycle 57 Documentary filmmaker Erin

Lee __

58 Singer Del Rey 61 Direct or instant

things

63 Genius Bar devices 64 Flex time?

67 Like a used fireplace 68 Not great

70 “The Show Goes On” rapper __ Fiasco

Kick out of a seat PC gaming hardware company Nash of “Never Have I Ever” Nursery furniture By way of Pampering place for a boxer 80 Former planet 81 Vanilla extract

amts.

85 Sports injury

87 Run time? 90 Crossed, as a

stream

92 Home to Pha That

Luang

93 “Totes”

94 Comm. from some

interpreters 95 Glasses, in a pinch 97 Genesis garden 99 ER drips

100 Advil competitor 102 Made a long story

short?

104 Dashboard readout 106 Badenov’s partner

in cartoon crime 108 Acknowledge

silently

109 Party time?

113 Test result

114 Lead-in to some

bad news

115 Dog to beware

116 Calle __ Festival: annual event in Miami’s Little Havana

117 Taylor-Joy of “The

Menu”

118 Noun suffix

119 Technical deets 120 Inert gas 71 72

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Noodle “Abbott Elementary” principal

Gooey, nutty dessert

Talus locale

Meal on an expense report Plant with a hedgehog variety 7 Mollusk with a

banana variety 8 Diarist Anaïs 9 “Ideas worth spreading” lectures

Utters delight “Barbie” director Gerwig

Track figures

Wapiti

Stuffed pasta

Set time?

Casper competitor To be, in Bogotá East Asian principle

Davis of “A League of Their Own”

Cord cutters’ lack Grapefruit kin Korean coupes

Toy derived from the Chinese yo-yo 32 South American

herbal brew 34 Gritty’s team, on

scoreboards 36 Fusses

38 Light therapy box 40 Map abbr.

42 Works with black

boxes

43 Zinger

44 Luau dish 46 Cornball

47 Some lambs 51 Trucker’s truck 54 Estimate qualifier

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24 28 29 30 56 Angela of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

57 Tee time? 59 Everyone in the

South?

60 Campus near

NoHo

62 “Better Call __” 63 Noted work? 64 Front of house

position

65 Some cover crops 66 Dodgeball setting 68 Coffee, colloquially 69 Tended to some

knots

71 Sneaker inserts 74 PC core

76 Piña colada need 77 Somewhat 79 Apiece

80 Book after Psalms 82 Frozen Hawaiian

treat

83 Model

84 Sarah Sherman’s

show, for short 86 Open-faced taco 88 Subarctic biome 89 Insurance company with a spokesgoose 91 Thermometer unit 95 Game whose outdoor version can be five feet tall 96 Bedazzle, say 98 Hammer targets 101 Pop star John

103 Summer on the

Riviera

105 Strike callers

106 Fancy function

107 Smart __

109 Destroy in esports 110 Sharp bark

111 “Well, well, well!” 112 Toulouse turndown