L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

Ten Minutes to Win It by Amie Walker

ACROSS 1

4

Printer supply Stretch often named for a leader

7 __ Fresh: fast-casual

Tex-Mex chain

11 Overthinks things,

say

19 Like many bathmats

21 Legend

22 Cheap digs

23 Rip-roarin’

25 Selected during Duck, Duck, Goose, say

Create an outstanding design?

27 Foreboding

29 Lacking

30 Knitting __

32 Actor Carell

36 Designer initials

39 PBS painter Bob

41 Kiosk at some

wedding receptions

46 “I’ll take that as __”

47 Vellani who plays Kamala Khan on “Ms. Marvel”

49 Great Plains people

51 Drops in

52 “Changing the

subject ... “

56 Spot for primer and

shadow, maybe

57 March family creator

58 Theater backdrop

59 Forum admin

61 River near the Great

Pyramid

26

62 “Ouch!”

64 “Ben-__”

65 Bro kin

66 Kenan Thompson’s

show, for short

67 More than a little

mentally fatigued

72 Tuba sound

74 Function

75 Appear in print

76 Took away from, as

profits

80 Painter Magritte

81 “Barry” network

82 “The Naked Chef ”

chef Oliver

84 Pop singer Britney

85 Golden years

87 Staley Da Bear, for

one

90 Mosaic piece

92 Writer Silverstein

93 Banana skin

94 Palette choice

95 Blank expression?

97 Hard to find

99 Tolkien series, to fans

of cosmetics

101 Standing Rock

people

104 Goes back out

108 Slept soundly after a

big day

112 Gilda who won an Emmy for 66-Across

116 Documentary

photographer Lange

100Lauder

120 Slow-moving treedweller

122 High-stakes gridiron situation, and a feature of eight long puzzle answers

123 Playpen cry

124 Effectiveness

125 Cultural sphere

126 Fitbit unit

127 Whiz

128 Sounds of

understanding

DOWN

1 Memo phrase

2 Meal- and exercisetracking app

3 Gearshift topper

4 Renée __ Goldsberry

of “Girls5eva”

5 Wash out

6 On point

7 Ecological

communities

8 Play opener

9 Become a member

10 __ Domini

11 Decides one will

12 Feathery neckwear

13 Longtime NASCAR

sponsor

14 Super vision?

15 Women

16 Pop

17 School near

Windsor

18 Fed. IDs

20 Emotionless

24 Semi-oxidized teas 28 Arena attendant

31 “Aw, nuts”

33 “Arrival” arrivals

34 Cast a ballot

35 Member of a TikTok

subculture

36 __ Lama

37 Genuflected

38 Top-__

40 “Couldn’t agree

more”

41 Audre Lorde

creation

42 Like a liberal commercial aviation agreement

43 K.T. of country

music

44 Govt. security

45 Jekyll’s

counterpart

47 Preface, briefly

48 Words to live by

50 Not great, qualitywise

53 Gulf Coast region

54 Earthy colour

55 Radiate

60 Dept. of Labor div.

63 Ticket leftover

65 Justice Sotomayor

68 “That __ no concern

to you”

69 Short-form blog

platform

70 Homecoming cry

71 Mountainous Asian

republic

72 Co-owner of the

Pequod 73 “Consequently ... “

77 Chip to dip

78 Brook swimmer

79 Blender brand

80 Flatbread made with

atta flour

81 Deli subs

82 Civil rights leader

Lewis

83 Madrid museum

86 __ pool

88 Willow variety

89 Onion kin

91 NFL passing stat

96 Three-faced Greek

goddess

98 Pub device

99 Soup scoop

102 Surgeon, informally

103 Sample

104 Classic Icelandic

saga

105 Unrefined one

106 Champagne choice

107 Breaks down

109 Spots for checks and

balances?

110 Whack

111 Browser button

113 “Strega __”: Tomie dePaola Caldecott Honor book

114 Set in stone, say

115 Matthew of “The

Americans”

117 Coddling, for short

118 Giggle syllable

119 Seemingly forever

121 Clean Air Act org.