SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bugs
7 Flat-topped hills
12 Faux wood in a fireplace
18 Pass by
19 Harding biopic 21 Chihuahua coin 22 Place for a rock 24 1984 Jeff Bridges film that begins with a UFO crash
25 Shorthand system 26 Just
27 Place for a roll 29 Geometry calculation 31 U.S. intel org. 33 “Trainwreck” director Judd
34 Place for a rock 39 Carbon compound 40 Short evening wear? 43 Driver’s assignment: Abbr.
44 Microsoft Office default typeface until 2007
45 Ore-Ida side, familiarly 47 Tech company with an exclamation point 49 Envelope abbr. 51 Burden
52 Take a break
55 Hulu alternative
56 Left high and dry 58 Place for a roll
61 __ as punch
62 Bring home 64 Shopping cart count 65 Choice words?
66 Fit together, as some dolls
69 Brobdingnagian 71 Barbecue fuel
73 Kung __ chicken 76 Booze
78 Bit attachment
80 Dave Barry genre 84 Place for a rock 87 Natural ability 90 Mammal with more gray matter than a human 91 Caesar __
92 Nabe in lower Manhattan
93 Miami Heat coach Spoelstra
94 Buy time
96 Australia’s national gemstone
98 In the midst of
100 Pub pintful
101 Orecchiette shape 102 Asgard god
105 Place for a roll 108 Actress Jennifer in Capital One commercials 110 Letters after nus
111 “Othello” villain
112 Place for a Rock
116 Matching
118 Put in more chips, say 122 Stretch with no landmarks
123 Place for a roll
126 Firsthand accounts 127 Fast and furious
128 Sharp kitchen tool 129 Tons
130 Knobs on a pipe organ
131 Respected ones
DOWN
1 Loch in hoax photos 2 Tons
3 Strong wind
4 Word with column or cord
5 Oregon’s oldest city 6 Cha, chai, or matcha 7 Bog down
8 2021 Marvel movie directed by Chloé Zhao 9 Most tender
10 “32 Flavors” singer DiFranco
11 Bring into alignment 12 Arrives at
13 Chess legend Karpov 14 Milkshake insert 15 Meat common in Greek cuisine
16 Shape of sesame seeds
17 No longer there 20 Indian city with a mausoleum
21 House channel 23 “Just think … ” 28 Hairy Halloween costume
30 Disgraced energy company
32 Make a scene? 34 Swimmer’s woe
35 __ Pradesh: Indian state
36 Fashionably dated 37 “All in the Family” spinoff
38 Short trips
40 Part of a magazine spread
41 Class clown
42 Some whiskey drinks 46 Largest island in French Polynesia
48 Wall flowers, perhaps 50 Wall or flower 53 Architect’s detail, briefly
54 Muppet who rarely says “I”
57 Port city south of Kyiv 58 __ Lankan rupee 59 Take heat from? 60 Japan’s largest beermaker
63 Factor in sibling rivalry, often
67 Costco rival, familiarly 68 Bulky brass instrument
70 Bridal bio word 72 Instrument for a troubadour 73 Counterpart of poetry 74 Place for a stent 75 Prized statuette 77 Sanders, for one
79 “No Logo” author Klein 81 Big picture?
82 Black swan of ballet 83 Type in again
85 Rogue computer of sci-fi 86 Small amount 88 Hypocritical sorts 89 Polynesian kingdom with more than 170 islands
92 Tortilla chip topper 95 Adds, as paper to a copier
97 Fish in some omelets 99 Series of bad takes 103 Appliances with drums
104 Ancient Cuzco dwellers
106 Not tricked by
107 Gave for a short time 108 Italian city known for salami
109 Oldest of the Pointer Sisters
112 Lombardy lake
113 Cartel founded in Baghdad
114 Widely shared post 115 Sweeties
117 Karaoke gear
119 Castaway’s home 120 One who’s forward-looking
121 Makes a misstep 124 Interest rate fig. 125 Safety gear for ER workers