L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ANSWERS TO ALL PUZZLES ARE ON PAGE 26 AND 31

ACROSS

1 Spanish for “prairie” 6 __ wind

11 “Carmina Burana” composer Breaks down Verdi creations Milan fashion house Letter-shaped support

Hose color

Hex nut? Paints the town red Sinus-clearing aids Boilermaker ingredient

Go in for

Cool, in a way Palm nut? Encircle

“__ Bop”: Cyndi Lauper song Fiver “Curious George” co-author Margret City on the Skunk Audrey of “The Da Vinci Code” Flavorful

It’s almost always fishy

Date nut? Brewers’ gadgets “Sorry, can’t do it” Customary Mischievous glance Bit

“Sorry not sorry” Old Bruins nickname Wing nut? Butternut? 15 19 20 21

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50 52 54 55 58 59 62 64

65 71

Folksy Guthrie Abdominal scar, actually

Earth goddess One in the alley’s back row Pueblo building material Breakfast cereal magnate Zigzagged, in a sport Doughnut? Drink with a painful homophone Packed (with) “Phooey!” Family figure? kind of blanket or paint

100 Bubbly prefix

102 New Haven collegian

FDR had three of them

Wheel nut? Card game cry “C’est magnifique!” “How ya __?” Punter’s metric Reggie Jackson nickname based on his postseason success Chestnut? Impress “Game of Thrones,” for one Dodge Hawaiian veranda Squirrels’ haunts Train station, e.g. 74 75

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1 First to move, usually

Indy champ Luyendyk Glove Protest group, perhaps Sooty receptacle Allow as a handicap “LOTR” menaces Delt neighbor Tangy Mexican sauce

More desirable to collectors Massage parlor services

Triple Crown stat Packers QB before Rodgers Streaming service offer

“Match Game” regular Charles Nelson __

In base eight Fighters’ pact Word that’s its own synonym when a “b” is added to the end

Family title?

Fly past Due-in hr. 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 12 13 16 17 18 24 26 29

Bob who was the voice of Future Ted Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother” Muscular, in modern lingo 32 33 34 35 36 42 43 44 46 47 48

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Former embryo Bourbon order “Funny not funny” Pianist Gilels Arizona College of Nursing city “Here’s a thought ... “

Center of activity Move en masse Many times o’er Aerial enigmas Old Spanish dough Splash (through) Split to come together Request from “Will do” Novelist Waugh Golf green insert Mauna __ Preserved, as sardines

Like Chinese sauce additive Prefix with belt, in slacks

What a wavy line may mean in music

Long bones Advent air Eggs in a lab “Chopped” host Allen

Costa __

Sign of boredom Western wolf Skunk cousin 82 83 85

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93 96 99 101

103 104

105 106 109 110 113 114 115 116

117 119 121 “Haven’t the foggiest” “Phooey!” Week add-on Inventor’s protection Nasty sort Ooze

A fourth of doce Out of juice Penn of the Harold & kumar films Hosp. test in a tube MC Chris genre Big name in jam Maracanã Stadium city Watches

“Did my heart love till now?” speaker Main artery

As much as possible Capital near Casablanca Empaths pick them up

__ Gay Serengeti bovine London’s __ Park Help in a risky way Passport fig.

It may include several courses One in a wet quintet __ trip Exposed, with “up”