Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“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