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Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- RELEASE DATE—Sunday, February 26, 2023 Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

“BRAND AWARENESS” BY CHANDI DEITMER

ACROSS

1 Lawn game similar to pétanque

6 iPad download 9 Tear 13 Old-Fashioned

option 17 Post-surgery

regimen

18 In close combat

21 Southweste­rn snapshot gallery?

23 Like Chartres

Cathedral 24 Drummer Ringo 25 Inert gas

27 “Cool your jets” 30 Alerts to some party planners that their guests have arrived? 33 Red tide bloom 34 Drag show

accessory 35 Puts in

36 __ tie

37 Skating biopic starring Margot Robbie 40 Ending for subor ex42 “Nailed It!” host

Nicole

43 “Over the Rainbow” composer 44 One searching for a river crossing?

47 __ blues: genre that originated in Mississipp­i 49 Actor

Mahershala 50 Yale grads 52 “Look on the

bright side!” 56 Troves of getting-to-knowyou questions? 64 Audio giant 65 Passage cleared

by a neti pot 66 PBS-funding

org.

67 Play-__

68 Like lechón

asado

69 “No ifs, __, or

buts”

70 Flipped bar

tables? 75 Private aye 77 Daredevil

Knievel 78 “Beach House” singer Carly __ Jepsen 79 Fawned (over) 82 Veto a very

large corsage? 89

curfew 94 Nursery cry 95 French star 96 Pointless event at the Olympics? 97 Napa product 98 Small slitherer 100 Last president to keep a White House cow

101 Entertainm­ent at

a tailgate party? 107 __ mitzvah

108 Guarantees

109 Meat salad in

Lao cuisine

110 Pontificat­e

112 Lay into

113 Political movement against free enterprise, or a way of reading

long answers? 118 Rummikub pieces

Familiar turf Hyper

Rich rocks 119 120 121

Some IRAs 2/26/23 122 Agape

123 Many OCS

grads

124 Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir “Just As I Am”

DOWN

1 Wireless

support, maybe 2 Ref. that could be considered hi-def.? 3 Comedian

Margaret

4 Taxi waiting

area

5 “Likely story” 6 Pulsating 7 Wretch 8 Veterinary

patient

9 Thorny flowers 10 Set of values 11 When the sun is

highest

12 Bank acct.

addition

more humble than this ... ” 14 Gas additive 15 Excited 16 Includes

19 Color quality 20 Epithet for Shiva 22 Oom-__

23 Tour stops 26 Tennis great

Agassi

27 Oliver Twist, for

one

28 Palo __,

California 29 Assistant with a

hunch?

31 __ chips 32 Picked out of a

lineup, briefly 38 Quite a spell 39 Wheel shaft 41 Male title derived from “brother”

42 Hat edge 43 Supped 45 Steinway

instrument 46 Above-the-street

trains

48 Scale divs. 51 Pro or con 53 Basketball commentato­r Rebecca 54 w/o delay 55 Cozy spots 56 “Mercy me!” 57 French film 58 Winds down 59 Plans to go

public?

60 Actor Watanabe 61 Roof overhang 62 Japanese

drama

63 __ party 68 Storage box 70 __-Magnon 71 Tony-winning musical “Dear __ Hansen” 72 Nero Wolfe

creator Stout 73 Oodles 74 “Mercy Mercy

Me” singer 76 Apple platform 80 Takes care of a

draft

81 Great __ 83 Sheep trills

! kind!”

85 Rotund stove 86 “Glass Onion” filmmaker Johnson 87 __ Romeo:

sports car 88 Hairy legend 89 Cite

90 Like many summer concerts

91 __ strength: measure of tolerance

" ### $ 97 Noisy bird in a dome-shaped nest

99 Hazards

102 Bow-toting deity 103 Tempting words

in Wonderland 104 Bawled

105 School basics 106 Lab rodent

111 Stretched thin 113 Cry of discovery 114 IM pioneer

115 “__ Raining Them”: Mila Jam remake celebratin­g the gender spectrum

116 Sign for a

crowded house 117 Guy

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