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
10/1/23 117 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