L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

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Jorts fabric North Africa’s __ Mountains

11 Cranberry sites

15 TV ads for good

causes

19 One who may live by

the Strait of Hormuz

20 Go

21 Old Testament twin

22 Actress Wilson of

“His Dark Materials”

23 “I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I ... ”

27 Specimen for a

volcanologist

28 Gown

29 Long Beach’s

location, informally

30 “I __”: Election Day

sticker

31 North Carolina

university

32 Uniform accessory

33 Ambulance wailers

34 “I always wanted to

be a baker, but I ... ”

40 __ bar

41 German article

42 Northeastern octet

43 Show clearly

46 Small tastes

48 Vega, e.g.

49 Phony

53 “I always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I ... ”

57

Undefeated boxer Laila

Means of access Goatee spot

Key of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Soy-based frozen dessert brand Think of, as a solution

“__ Place”: 1990s TV drama

Classic Windows catchphrase Bygone Dodge subcompact Messy scuffle Customizable Wii Sports avatar “I always wanted to be a perfumer, but I ... ”

81 French infinitive

83 Give more than a

darn?

84 Midday

85 On the clock

86 Setting for many

Stephen King novels

88 After the whistle

90 Wallpaper hanger’s

calculation

91 “I always wanted to be a gardener, but I ... ”

98 Sugar shack

surrounders

99 Actress Mireille

100MLB stat

58 59 60

62

65

67

69

70

71 72

73 101 Massive old

computer

102 Amazon crime series based on Michael Connelly novels

104 Fanny pack’s spot

106 Needle a bit

109 “I always wanted to be a wedding officiant, but I ... ”

113 Not aweather

114 Canine pal of Nermal

and Garfield

115 British elevators

116 Pie feature

117 Young 67-Down

118 Batik artist

119 Sherwin-Williams

product

120 Toast opener

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2

“Say So” singer __ Cat Some Down Under sprinters

3 Graham in the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame

4 QB misfire

5 __-of-the-road

6 Pasta specification

7 Till stack

8 Muscles near delts

9 Batting stat

10 Vacillate

11 “You __!”: “Yep!”

12 Dept. of Labor arm

13 Fine __: Irish political

party

14 Dine by candlelight,

maybe 15 “The Canterbury

Tales” character

16 Beverage brewed

with solar energy

17 Go to

18 Gets rid of

24 Appliance in some

hotel room closets

25 Reggae pioneer Peter

26 Like a ram or a lamb

31 Balanced

32 Curry of the NBA’s

“Splash Brothers”

33 Bypass

34 Home with cells

35 Tel __, Israel

36 Main points

37 Taking action

38 Captain of industry

39 Novelist Turgenev

40 Family room

44 Pants part

45 Award quartet for John Legend, for short

47 Grapefruit wedge

48 __ guard

50 Lighting effect

51 “Poor, pitiful me!”

52 Puny parasite

54 “... __ quit!”

55 Sulu player John

56 Choose

61 Routes without tolls

62 Person of the Year

designator

63 Skip over

64 So-so

65 Some med. plans

66 Company abbr. 67 Guys

68 “Frozen” sister

70 Advent

71 Ramadan, e.g.

74 Essential fatty __

75 Brooks’s country

music partner

76 Gets into shape?

77 Castle trench

78 Standard

79 Koala hangout

80 Genre of the Mighty

Mighty Bosstones

82 Tries to live up to

87 Smart __

89 Most uncanny

91 Cooking oil option

92 Weighed in

93 “The Addams

Family” uncle

94 Foot part

95 Totally worthless

96 Recipe amt.

97 Built for NASA, say

98 Athlete’s award

102 Soul mate?

103 Scrape covered with a Paw Patrol bandage, e.g.

104 Library convenience

105 Memo abbr.

106 Cowpoke’s poker

107 “Will there be

anything __?”

108 Dampens

110 Drift off

111 Fjord kin

112 One of five principal resources in the game Catan