LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
CON TEST
ACROSS
1 Handy smartphone
app for a tourist 4 Most pancakes 9 Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want To Talk About __”
13 Lumps in a stack of
folded sweatshirts 18 Make a big fuss 20 Auburn, to Alabama 21 Skerry, e.g.
22 Con current? 24 Bradbury genre 25 Brotherly sort 26 Blackpink genre 27 December quaff 29 River near Shakespeare’s birthplace 30 Argentine grassland 33 Con tour?
37 Con quest? 41 Hardly any 42 Squeaky toy? 43 With 52-Across, some midriff-baring attire
44 “Star Trek: TNG”
counselor Deanna 45 Leg bone 47 System connecting
OAK and SFO 50 Patella spots
52 See 43-Across 54 Con sorts?
57 Plays chords, in a
way
59 Aristotle’s teacher 61 Fictional Amelia who, when asked to remove spots from a dress, cut out all the polka dots 62 Maui’s Road to __ 63 Iranian money 64 Chart-topper 65 “Shucks!” 66 “Black-ish” dad 68 Con note?
73 Tic-tac-toe side 74 Slitherers in the sea 76 Freedom Rider’s ride
77 Scuffle
78 As concerns
80 Code names
82 “See what I did there?”
84 Drives too fast 86 Con text?
88 Half of quatorze 90 Spousal term of
endearment 92 Toss, slangily 93 Performed
miserably
95 Put pen to paper 97 “Aida” river 98 Classic film about a
football-kicking mule 100 Swing about
101 Con figure?
103 Con script?
108 False move
109 Capital of Italia
110 Lacking freshness 111 “... __ I thought” 113 Saint-Saëns’s “__
Macabre”
117 Conscious
119 Con form?
124 Seeds, weeds, and
feeds
125 Asteroids publisher 126 “Wait, what
happened?”
127 Come up
128 Nave-y bases?
129 “Divine Comedy” poet
130 Greek vowel
DOWN
1 Tennis great Steffi 2 Skating team 3 iPhone speaker 4 Reorganize a hard drive, familiarly 5 Cocktail sphere 6 “Yakety __”: hornheavy novelty hit 7 Algonquian-speaking people 8 Manicure sound 9 Salt garnish locale 10 Letters after Madison or before Maria
11 Source of hemp 12 John who completed
an EGOT in 2024 13 That fella’s
14 Name on a
Wienermobile 15 Tapenade fruit 16 Crusoe’s creator 17 Stay
19 Major drama
20 Two bars and two
dots, on a staff 23 Actor Hardy 28 Macroeconomics
abbr.
31 Actor born
Laurence Tureaud 32 Components 34 Proclamation 35 Hasbro’s “game of
unspeakable fun” 36 Turn
37 “Cathy” cry 38 Vessels in a
pharaoh’s tomb 39 Follow the rules 40 1960s nonconformist 46 HS exam with a cellular energetics section
48 Dadcore jeans specification 49 Lacking freshness 51 Olympic gold medalist Lee
53 Tear it up
55 Unleash
56 Spunk
58 Many an Argentine red 60 Up in the air 63 Campground
sights, briefly 64 Rte. 66, e.g.
66 The “D” of CODA 67 Baton-passing
event
69 Boots
70 Novelist Leon 71 Like the Resident
Evil games
72 Had more than an
inkling
75 Rails against failure? 79 Put back
81 Crunch cousin 82 Actor Elliott 83 Jaded feeling
84 Big name in Apple
history
85 Ward of “Gone Girl” 87 “See you then!” 89 As per routine 91 “__ outta here!” 94 Skywalker mentor 96 GameCube
successor
99 Cheap ticket spec 102 Final application 103 Persona non __ 104 Scull mover
105 Bahla Fort visitor,
perhaps
106 Yosemite peak free soloed in “Free Solo,” informally 107 Miracle-__
112 Came out with
114 Vertex, in graph
theory
115 Clubs, but not
cabarets
116 Jazz singer Jones 118 Kampala-to-Nairobi
dir.
120 Unedited, as
footage
121 OBs, e.g.
122 Racket
123 Chicago winter hrs.