L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Hesitations

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 a mosquito bite 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