L.A. Times Crossword

“BLOOD BANK” BY MATTHEW STOCK

ACROSS

1 Uses a treadmill 5 Many a personal

website

9 Apple player 13 Deceives

19 “Am __ loud?” 20 Spanish tender 21 Purple pet in old

cartoons

22 Turn over 23 Excuse for a presidency’s shortcomings? (A+)

26 Antenna 27 Fencing move 28 Distribute 29 Sales agt. 30 Music producer

Brian 31 Geopolitical

alliance 33 Where Parisians get their newspapers? (A-)

37 Bagel feature 39 Cover story

piece?

41 Jet stream

heading

42 Bit of sunlight 43 __ au lait 44 Tight end Rob with four Super Bowl rings, familiarly 45 Siddhartha __:

the Buddha 47 Wisecracking extraterrestrial of 1980s TV 48 Riot

49 Oscar the Grouch’s backing instrumentalists? (B+) 53 Angry tennis player, perhaps? (B-) 57 Top __

58 Milne character who likes to swing on Tigger’s tail 59 Cook quickly, as

vegetables 60 Fraud

61 Parting

exchanges 63 Subway Series

side

64 “I guess that

works”

65 Menial worker 66 “Family __” 67 “Tut-tut” evokers 68 Yardstick’s three 69 Brink

70 __ chic

71 Oscarnominated film about a South Korean family in rural Arkansas 72 34-Down

opposite

Space-saving bed 74 Barista-inspired

dessert? (O+) 76 Warmup stretches at a company retreat? (O-) 80 Button on some

scales 81 Above, in

odes 82 “Agreed” 83 Moved furtively 85 Short lunch

orders?

86 Knee part, for

short

88 “Keep this

private” docs 89 Handsome, in

Honduras 90 Keep afloat 91 Excited cry when the shellfish course finally arrives? (AB+)

94 Give voice to 96 Confer

knighthood on 97 Mess up 98 Nonspecific

category

73

8/13/23 100 Windowswitching shortcut

104 Used a loom

106 Reason so many classic songs are earworms? (AB-) 109 Put forth

110 Small sled

111 Ardent

112 Aretha Franklin’s gospel/soulsinging sister 113 Some Ethiopian Christmas celebrants, for short

114 __ so slightly 115 Honor roll stats 116 Overly curious

DOWN

1 Fault

2 Capitol Reef National Park setting 3 Spider-Man __: monochromatic comic book character

4 Like sugar in

water

5 Square meal? 6 Schlep 7 Large part of a

pod

8 Hold nothing

back

9 The bee’s knees and the cat’s meow

10 Old Ford named

for a horse 11 Solid yellow ball 12 On the __ 13 Infancy, adolescence, etc.

14 Hardly handy 15 Night before 16 One-named

Tejano singer 17 Hot now 18 Others, in

Oaxaca

24 Key in the sea 25 Not optimistic 29 Said again 32 Legume used in

vegan chocolate 34 72-Across

opposite 35 Apply messily 36 Many an Emirati 37 Lamb eaten on

Eid, e.g. 38 Heard but not

seen, maybe 40 Some sacred

flowers

43 Those with a

driving passion? 44 Post-punk

subculture 45 Long-nosed fish 46 Gents 48 “Consarn it!” 49 Special find 50 Sport that encourages horsing around? 51 Infamy 52 Spycraft files 54 Massage target 55 Selling point? 56 Sun-kissed 61 Taproom

offering

62 Crack some

jokes

63 Stereo

alternative 65 Sedate

66 Extra charge 67 Striped yellow

ball

69 Portico pillars 70 Buicks, e.g. 71 Indicator 73 Banned refrigerant, for short 74 __ Lingus 75 Riverside rental 77 “__ in the

blanks” 78 ESPNU focus 79 Sailor’s boon 83 Dinner rolls? 84 Infielder’s

untimely move 85 “Plot twist ... ” 86 Mamá’s mamá 87 Plot-makers 89 Assemble 90 Acrimony 91 Pitching duel? 92 NASAapproved watch brand

93 Park ranger’s

post

95 “Downton

Abbey” figures 99 Accept an invite,

perhaps

101 Poi base

102 Upper limbs

103 Annual milestone, briefly

105 Pet doc

106 __ Henriksen:

skin care brand 107 Hon

108 Noche preceder