L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mature

4 “Things Fall __”: Chinua

Achebe novel

9 Exam for jrs.

13 Lack compatibility, as

colors

18 Clickable address

19 One of 17 properties on a

Monopoly board 20 Supply company in Road

Runner cartoons 21 Must

22 Simon and Garfunkel, e.g. 23 Button on a quartermaster’s calculator?

26 Little rascal

27 Term of endearment 28 Burden

29 Amount consumed 30 One?

35 Burdened

36 “For sure!”

37 Archer of myth

38 Builds to a crescendo 40 Colorado site of the

Winter X Games 43 Thick & Fluffy waffle

brand

44 Detest

45 Ceiling

48 Bad mood

49 “__ Mccartney”: 2016

compilation album 50 Birds + Bees = Bundle of

Joy?

54 Jump over

55 Judean king

56 Stockpile

57 Valuable minerals 58 Female sheep

59 Laundry appliance 60 Self-checkout action 61 Australian sextet 63 Staunch advocates of

quotients?

68 Category on Disney+ 70 Cries from Homer 71 Cogito __ sum

72 Down Under bird 75 Neighborhood

76 Vowel sequence

78 Move furtively

79 Shrill bark

80 Average thoroughfares? 83 Silent assents

84 Actor Mostel

85 School of thought 86 Tattle

87 Dull

88 Expand

89 “Gunsmoke” star 91 Apr-reducing loan 92 Author

93 Sleeping spots for tabbies 96 Knack for reciting

multiplication tables? 102 City west of Flint,

Michigan

103 Hydrox rival

104 Lend a hand

105 Poseidon’s realm

106 Fails to complete a

subtraction problem? 111 Toque, e.g.

112 Cara of “Fame” fame 113 Learning by repetition 114 In tatters

115 Time for last-minute gift

wrapping

116 Pennies

117 Title for a fictional fox 118 Rose

119 Simone de Beauvoir’s “The

Second __”

DOWN

1 Video counterpart 2 Curmudgeon

3 Act unceremoniously? 4 Birds

5 Ship owner who described Ahab as “ungodly, godlike”

6 “Both Hands” singer

Difranco

7 Road groove

8 Dim sum drink

9 Liam of One Direction 10 Uses steel wool, maybe 11 Increases, with “up” 12 “Fore!” site

13 Friend on “Friends” 14 Foamy hot beverages

15 From the Philippines, e.g. 16 Stir up

17 Sharpened

19 Insomnia option

24 Rips off

25 Oldest bridge spanning

Venice’s Grand Canal 31 Duma veto

32 Campari cocktail 33 Goaded

34 Farm sound

35 Flips (through)

39 Reasons

40 Arthur in the International

Tennis Hall of Fame 41 40-Across forecast 42 Wildly improbable goal 43 Portuguese bread? 45 Greeted a queen, perhaps 46 Away from the wind,

nautically

47 “Hard no”

49 Hazard

50 Greek god of wine 51 Indian nurses

52 “Munich” star Eric 53 Sound of pain or pleasure 55 Bee hub

60 Supercilious sort

61 Inks

62 __ one’s time

64 Lendl in the International

Tennis Hall of Fame

65 Garfield’s goofy housemate 66 Like a hummable tune 67 June celebration 68 Spanish term of affection 69 Son of Zeus

73 Female zebra

74 Over

76 City in Provence

77 Snaky fish

78 Big blunder

81 Emphasizes 82 Muscle-bone connector 84 Metal in pennies

87 Made dinner for

88 Tidied the garden

89 Away

90 Pixie

91 Ski rack spot

92 __ to sell

93 Open mic performer, often 94 Plugged in

95 Arcade coin

97 Send (to)

98 Letter between Sierra and

Uniform

99 Clambake leftovers 100 Split

101 Paint choice

103 Stench

107 Globe

108 Hosp. areas

109 “I smell a __!”

110 Psyche component