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