L.A. Times Crossword
“AUTO CORRECT” BY HOANG-KIM VU & WENDY L. BRANDES
ACROSS
1 Ends of pens 5 Approval from a
Lab
8 Like chocolate
ganache 12 Swindles 17 Sound at a
barbershop 18 Poetic salutes 20 Pain
6WXFN RXW RQH·V tongue as requested 22 Coffee shop loyalty card reward
24 Get close to 25 Japanese fish
preparation 26 Noisy outbursts that are greatly appreciated? 28 Not very much 29 Give, as a
GULYHU·V OLFHQVH 30 Brown quickly 32 Lemon scraping 33 Toot
36 __ A: Italian
soccer league 39 Loot
41 Strikes (out) 44 Bird voted
“Most Likely to Succeed”? 49 Like crudités 50 Fix, as a pet 52 __-di-dah 53 Watch closely 54 Fabrication 55 Signed up 58 Beach town west of Santa Monica
60 AED
administrators 61 Messages hidden in some brunch fare? 63 Made sense of 66 Atop, poetically 67 Court divider 68 Disgusted
syllable 69 Wallach of “The Magnificent Seven”
7RW·V SHUFK RQ D bike
74 Bit of middleschool fashion? 79 Grasped 80 Used a rotary
phone
82 When the
dinner bell rings 83 Not online, online
7UXFN·V WDQNIXO 86 Rollaway, e.g. 87 Crack a book 88 Actor Chaney 89 Halloween
rental fee? 93 Connect with 96 Writer Calvino 97 Like ta moko and the haka Indy 500 family name
100 Chutzpah
103 Govt.-issued IDs 105 Oft-removed
throat tissues 108 Delights
110 Bad news at an Atlanta pie shop?
116 Garb
117 App buyer
118 Fishy scoopful
at a deli
119 Large-horned
mammals
120 Agitate
121 “__ Brockovich” 122 Teacher from
the old school? 123 “Yesterday” and
“Tomorrow”
124 Long fish
125 Vote against
126 Apple Watch
assistant
99
DOWN 1 Blue tag?
2/19/23 2 Pertaining to -HVVLFD RI 79·V “The Sinner” 4 Genus
subdivision 5 Some gummy
animals
6 Parting mot
7 Art classes? 8 Corporal or
private 9 Potential cause
of brain freeze 10 Exchanges 11 Reflexive
pronoun 12 Onetime Volvo
rival
13 Inhabitant
´,W·V BB µ 15 Predatory sharks 16 With 100-Down, FKDQJH RQH·V approach, and a hint to the circled letters 19 Accomplish a lot
with little effort 21 Like potatoes 23 Some tablets
6LWXS·V WDUJHW 31 Filmmaker with
a unique style 33 Bit of hardware 2QH RI \RJD·V five vital forces 35 Piano-playing dog on “The Muppet Show” 37 Puerto Rico y
Mallorca 38 Abbr. in a
research paper 40 “The Pioneer Woman” host Drummond 42 Fragrant
compounds 43 Small detail? 45 “Makes sense
now”
46 Muppet with a puppy named Tango
47 In __: as found 48 Course
obstacle 51 God, in Hebrew 56 “You win this
hand”
57 Luge, e.g. 58 Convened 3XFFLQL·V ´/D __”
60 Fiat 62 Uncouple 64 2002 American League MVP Miguel 65 Transport to Tel
Aviv
68 Abbr. in an email subject line
70 Quite smart 71 Big sandwich 72 Woes
73 Cars named for +HQU\ )RUG·V son
74 “Neon” fish
´&RRO µ 76 Pottery ovens 77 Overact 78 Mid-range voice 81 Fertile soil 84 Demolish 85 Accumulates 87 Change
direction 90 Activity at windmills and pinball machines 91 Create out of
thin air
92 Show up for 94 Destroys, as
books 95 Pants
measurements 98 One after
another
100 See 16-Down
+RZH·HU
102 “Lux et veritas”
language
104 “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” writer Orbach 106 Sotomayor who said,
“You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true” 107 “Unless there
are none”
109 Greek
matchmaker? 111 Peddle
112 Número de leches en un postre específico
113 Jai __
114 NFL quarterback Derek
115 Port on some
TVs