LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Daffy Duck feature
5 Throws, as the shot
9 Real grind
13 Second most populous city in the Dakotas
18 Chip in a chip
19 Brand with a wasabi-flavored variety in China 20 Necklace-fastening site
21 Most of the Earth’s surface
22 *Extra
25 Brought up
27 Paint fight sounds
28 Corned beef concoction
29 Latte maker
30 31-Across prefix
31 Cruise stopover
32 *Bad
34 Since
36 Small island
38 Afore
39 Make out, in Manchester
40 *Liar
45 Attends to
47 In an absurd fashion
48 Popular roller coaster name
50 Squatters build them
55 Saucy
56 Big Apple designer initials
58 Choice words?
59 Some campus coaches
60 Messy room metaphor
61 Bakery output
62 Plot size
64 Intellectual
65 *Hail
68 Apollo and Artemis
71 System developed at Bell Labs
72 Get rid of
73 Banned pesticide
76 Whizzes
77 Waze option: Abbr.
78 Ostentation
79 Toon explorer with a talking purple backpack
80 Like
20 Questions questions
81 More irritable
84 Like a probability distribution with two peaks
86 Say “I do,” maybe
88 *Ladybird
90 Suit in a Spanish deck of cards 94 Madre’s sister 95 Mois après avril
96 “The Big __ Theory”
97 *Wait
100 Burn slightly
102 Air 2 or Pro
106 In general
107 They’re sometimes goodies
109 Expert advice
111 Sympathize
112 *Hush
114 Fed settings
115 Second half of a children’s game
116 Olympian queen
117 __ mad: to the max
118 Practices in a ring
119 Language that gave us “plaid”
120 Boundarypushing
121 Villain in “The Lion King”
DOWN
1 “Dancer in the Dark” Palme d’Or winner von Trier
2 Clumsy
3 Hardly new
4 Item common to bikes and pianos
5 D.C. bigwigs
6 Address without lat. or long.
7 Detachable strip
8 Serious
9 Ignore pointedly
10 In recent history
11 Offer a view
12 “__ Out”: 2017 Jordan Peele film
13 Made inroads
14 Biting, as wit
15 Shows over
16 Actress Greer with the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech
17 Kind of punch
23 Order to relax
24 Verbal protest
26 Freaking
29 Carried
31 Quarter barrels for a beer bash
33 Controlling power
35 Perseveres, with “on”
37 Old nuclear agcy.
40 Dicey spots?
41 Working without __
42 Not, quaintly
43 Explosive stuff
44 Like some roads and receptions
45 Gourmet mushroom
46 Pipsqueak
49 Seuss character who “speaks for the trees”
51 Alternative media namesake
52 Perfectly fine
53 __ Johnson, Anthony Anderson’s “Black-ish” role
54 Pre-1991 Georgia, e.g.: Abbr.
57 DOD intel arm
59 Dramatic artist
61 Whiz kid
62 Choreographer de Mille
63 TV franchise with a Vegas spinoff
64 Digital conflict?
65 Before ... or after
66 Wacko
67 Head of MI6?
68 Senator Klobuchar
69 Issa of “Insecure”
70 Papers in a job recruiter’s office, briefly
73 Bird last seen in 1662
74 Apothecary’s weight
75 Story
77 Urban opposite
78 Nose (into)
79 “I’m so dense!”
81 Purely decorative detail
82 “__ body meet ... ”
83 Bring forth
85 The Temptations’ first #1 single
87 Dieted
89 Embarrassed
90 Reason for shoe inserts
91 Perseverance and Curiosity
92 Track’s 400 meters
93 Layers
95 Free-for-alls
98 Where a tot might come from?
99 Grass accessory
101 Anne of “Psycho” (1998)
103 Aquatic arenas
104 Bertha was locked in one in “Jane Eyre”
105 Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX winning coach
108 Denzel’s role in “The Little Things” (2021)
109 Beseech
110 __ pressure
112 Dir. the Kings travel to play the Lakers
113 Tango’s cobirthplace: Abbr.