L.A. 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

71 Kick out of a seat

72 PC gaming hardware

company

73 Nash of “Never Have I

Ever”

75 Nursery furniture

78 By way of

79 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

DOWN

1 Noodle

2 “Abbott Elementary”

principal

3 Gooey, nutty dessert 4 Talus locale

5 Meal on an expense report 6 Plant with a hedgehog

variety

7 Mollusk with a banana

variety

8 Diarist Anaïs

9 “Ideas worth spreading”

lectures

10 Utters delight

11 “Barbie” director Gerwig 12 Track figures

13 Wapiti

14 Stuffed pasta

15 Set time?

16 Casper competitor 17 To be, in Bogotá

21 East Asian principle 23 Davis of “A League of Their

Own”

24 Cord cutters’ lack 28 Grapefruit kin

29 Korean coupes

30 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 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