San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS 1
Performs an operation, in a way
5 “One Kiss” singer __ Lipa Southwestern building block
13 Buzzing cloud
18 Sans-__: font style
20 Liberty Mutual’s
industry: Abbr.
21 Toyota’s luxury
division
22 Common newspaper
name
23 Saudi neighbor
24 Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero?
27 __ optics
28 Tolkien saga, briefly
29 Forbes rival
30 Vitamin C source
31 Chicago business
district
34 Bootleg booze
36 Method of preserving souvenir tops? March on Washington fig.
43 Split __ soup
46 Most candid
47 Iris covering
49 Bring in
50 Lead
51 Activity in a Toronto
pastry shop?
55 Ethiopian capital
58 Aliens, for short
8
42
59
Certain lamp resident “Breathe Me” singer Fuel-efficient bikes Bertie played by Hugh Laurie
Tall tales about one’s climbing experience? Many an episode of “This Is Us,” e.g. Kir __: French cocktail Naughty
To no __: in vain Tallahassee sch. “Some Like It Hot” co-star Greeting that may come with barks and licks?
88 Dry Italian wine
89 __ Major
90 “Let’s go, amigos!”
91 Concession speech
deliverer
93 School org.
94 __ drop
95 Rodent who’s really angry he missed the migration?
99 Rizzo of “Midnight
Cowboy”
101 Horn of Africa nation
102 Tubman of Judy Blume’s “Fudge” series
105 SUV stat
108 Taylor Swift’s “Look
What You __ Me Do”
109 Genius Bar tablets
60 61 63
65
69
73
74 77 78 81
84 114 Good-natured fun leading up to an election?
117 Gymnast Comaneci
118 On, as an alarm
119 Garlicky mayonnaise
120 “Da 5 Bloods”
director Spike
121 Serengeti grazer
122 John Irving’s “A
Prayer for Owen __”
123 Painter Picasso
124 AARP folks
125 Hook’s sidekick
DOWN
1 Starting from
2 __-glace: rich sauce
3 Dull
4 Trigonometry
function
5 Cockney, e.g.
6 7UP nickname, with
“the”
7 Kutcher of “Jobs”
8 Tide alternative
9 Sub station?
10 Team members
11 Anheuser-__
12 Abbr. on some
cornerstones
13 Christmas Eve
visitor, familiarly
14 Shoe measurement
15 Boy in “The Kite
Runner”
16 Eye care brand
17 Inbox fillers: Abbr.
19 Some evergreens
25 Pressing need? 26 Big name in water
purification
32 Growth chart nos.
33 Printing measure
35 Portent
36 Wardrobe item on
HBO’s “Rome”
37 Taters
38 Klum of “Making the
Cut”
39 Setting of the 2022
film “RRR”
40 Lymph __
41 Fortitude
43 Smock stain
44 Bert’s BFF
45 Tick off
48 “Illmatic” rapper
49 Just scrapes (by)
51 Crunch’s rank
52 Disable the security
system for, say
53 Zilch
54 Eagerly expectant
56 “Famous” cookiemaker
57 Ring match
62 Polite address
63 Artful
64 Two Grants
65 Ten-time NBA AllStar Anthony, to fans
66 “Me? Never!”
67 Fourvière locale
68 Yin counterpart
69 Escorted to the
penthouse, say
70 For all to see
71 Light wood
72 Pay stub abbr. 74 Witch craft?
75 Arcade pioneer
76 Lounge piece
78 Subject line abbr.
79 Old car from Sweden
80 Fruit that’s not so
cute
82 Ship sunk in Havana
Harbor in 1898
83 Hong Kong’s Hang __
Index
85 Tiki bar drink
86 RSVP cards, often
87 Sees
91 Asserts without
proof
92 Plumeria garland
94 Illness
96 “Lara Croft: __
Raider”
97 Inbox fillers
98 Original “SNL” cast
member Gilda
99 Turn red, say
100__ vincit amor
102 Car warranty call,
usually
103 Fabled loser
104 Watson of “Little
Women”
106 “No __”: “Piece of
cake”
107 Fish organ
110 BFFs
111 Singer Lambert
112 Have a meal
113 “Soldier of Love”
singer
115 Space
116 “About Me” info