L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Saoirse of “Lady Bird”

6 Casino request

11 Go to the polls

15 Ship’s staff

19 IRS option

20 Lakers legend

Shaquille

21 Nutrient in dried

beans

22 Letter before kappa

23 Score a seafood morsel in a bite of paella?

25 Carefully check some

deli stock?

27 City viewed from

Holmenkollbakken

28 Miles and meters

29 Decree

30 Intel microprocessor

31 Kelp and sargassum

33 Sour

35 Mosque leader

37 Certain, for sure:

Abbr.

38 __ firma

40 Patterns in an aviary

44 Most bashful

47 Low-pressure

technique

49 Numbered hwy.

50 No Doubt lead singer

Stefani

51 “__ a wrap”

53 Hamburgers and hot dogs sold at a NASCAR race?

56 Landscaping supply

57

Travis or Haggard of country music Polite interruption Court proceeding Restricted zone Scottish lowland Kind Magician Jillette Ingredient that tends to fly out of the stand mixer?

70 Understands

72 Repast

74 50+ group

75 Golfing compliment

78 Steam room

79 Lid woe

80 Raga instrument

81 Ming who is the tallest player in the basketball Hall of Fame

82 Make an unusual choice while making borscht?

84 Stocky dog

85 Little devils

86 “The Long Goodbye”

Oscar winner Ahmed

87 Biometric

recognition method

90 Talks back

92 Artists’ lofts

95 Mike Brady or Phil

Dunphy

97 Mauna __

98 Scraped (by)

99 Warthog feature

100Far from calm

105 Utter delight

58 60 61 63 64 65 66 107 Picnicker’s worry

109 Battle of the brands

111 Credit alternative

112 Sketch the Thanksgiving turkey before it’s carved?

114 Request to a fishmonger for smaller portions?

116 Aria deliverer

117 Ignored the limit

118 Abundant

119 Noggins

120 “Please don’t go!”

121 Letters on egg

cartons

122 Speedy

123 Piques

DOWN 1

Some tow tasks, for short

2 Functional

3 Wafer named for its

flavor

4 Admits

5 Read Across America

org.

6 Beagle, for one

7 Refuse to bend

8 Reason to hit the

books

9 Super conductors?

10 Annex shape,

perhaps

11 Take a trip to

12 Killer whale

13 Chimichanga wrap

14 Chemical suffix

15 Picture house 16 Caramel-filled treat

17 Town across the Thames from Windsor

18 Spa treatment

24 Jack kin

26 Reason to hit the

books

29 Campus brothers

32 __ contact

34 Bark

36 Punishes with a fine

39 Oldest Haim sister

40 Pricey salon job

41 “This herb is

amazing!”?

42 Citation shortener

43 Movie location

44 In one fell __

45 Avoid the downside

in a corn investment?

46 Pitched

48 Court fig.

50 “Who Wants To Be a

Millionaire” channel

52 Jai __

54 Retail giant that owns Food 4 Less and Ralphs

55 Swamps

57 “See ya!”

58 Actress Woodard

59 Pitch in

62 Outdo

63 Aussie greeting

67 Drink with foam art

68 Operating system developed by Bell Labs

69 Ceremonies 71 Melodramatic fare

73 Chem class cost

76 Garage cacophony

77 How-__: manuals

78 Comedy bit

79 Min. parts

80 Movesian who co-hosts “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”

82 Sp. woman

83 Dangling jewelry

84 Unhappy returns?

85 “Elon Musk”

biographer Walter

88 Bowl over

89 Walgreens rival

91 Soak (up)

93 Elbow room

94 Furniture chain founded in Sweden

96 Hindu festival of

lights

99 Actress Swinton

101 Blunt, as truth

102 Supermodel

Campbell

103 Spot of land

104 Game with rooks

105 Sandpaper surface

106 Etna emission

108 Blown away

110 “The Idol” actress

Lily-Rose

112 Driller’s deg.

113 Tallahassee sch.

114 Watering hole

115 Fantasy football

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