San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE
Funny Business
ACROSS 1
Cymbals played with a pedal
6 Doofus
10 Snack or stack at the
poker table
15 Hushed summons
19 Sun-dried brick
20 Hardwood trees
21 32-foot pastry visible from the 405 in Los Angeles
22 “Sex Education”
protagonist
23 Composite image where stars appear as streaks
26 Key turning point?
27 Landscaping tool
28 Title role for
Madonna
29 Chihuahua’s alert
30 Sinister
32 Early social
networking site
34 Cartagena kiss
35 Flat formation
38 Kitchen containers
39 Flurry of emotions
41 GoPro device
44 Musical ability
45 Ref. that added “adultification” in 2023
46 Rattan
47 Vehicle that may address the “last mile” problem
52 Used a peeler
53 Comedian DeLaria 54 Like last-minute tix,
maybe
55 “Stop talking”
56 Sudden shocks
57 Air space?
59 Rio hello
61 Bag-checking org.
62 __ fide
63 “Don’t forget your umbrella and galoshes!”
71 Bavarian range
72 Prefix with cache
73 Get loose, in a way
74 Ginger __
75 Italian seaport
77 Flock infant
79 Brio
81 Word with bird’s or
bull’s
82 75-Down accessory
83 As the situation
warrants
88 Simpson who plays
the sax
89 “Mr. Robot” creator
Esmail
90 Beam
91 Said aloud
92 Phryge, for Paris
2024, e.g.
97 Cable
98 Has on the calendar
99 “American Dad” dad
100Inched closer
103 Match makeup
104 Petting zoo chorus
105 Base for many
Italian fashion labels 106 Ginger blossom
garland
108 Tends to spilled milk
110 Period that included the storming of the Bastille
114 Dressy attire
115 “The Color Purple”
producer
116 “You said it!”
117 Do some dirty
dancing
118 Jennifer of “Dirty
Dancing”
119 Dishwasher cycle
120 Petting zoo ride
121 Music League
submissions
DOWN
1 “Hell __ no fury ... “
2 Figurative
expression
3 Comfy cozy
4 First pres. born outside the Thirteen Colonies
5 Power trip?
6 Debate issues
7 Trash
8 HEMNES retailer
9 Vanilla meas.
10 1990s media
coverage?
11 Souped-up car
12 Indigenous Alaskan
13 Water filter brand
14 Mentally prepared
15 “... and I approve
this message” spots
16 Lifted prints? 17 [Not my error]
18 Disappointed click
24 Digital images?
25 Wild goat
31 Actor Kilmer
33 Blueprint bit
34 Hardwood tree
35 House of Lords
member
36 St. __ of Assisi
37 Employed
39 Madrid “more”
40 Adversary
41 Pegged instruments
42 Indigenous Alaskan
43 Denotes
44 Biotech bacteria
48 Makes a flat sheet
flatter
49 Resolution
50 Peak between Pelion
and Olympus
51 “__ a big if!”
52 Duck habitat
56 Musician Batiste
58 Provide pardon
60 Acute thing
62 Bread shaped like a
21-Across
64 Plant with a tiger
tooth variety
65 Brewery letters
66 One on a fixie, say
67 Like some tearjerkers
68 Yr. before a historic
time change
69 Journalist King
70 Dashboard display 75 Outdoor kitchen
fixture
76 Simple
78 Lowest rank for a
35-Down
80 Crucially important
82 Unappealing plateful
83 Baylor University
city
84 “I dunno ... “
85 “Postman __”: BBC stop-motion animation series
86 Crunchy snack
87 Helper
89 Accepts an invitation
to pose
93 Calif. Christmas hrs.
94 Poses in a yoga
studio
95 Lazy walrus, e.g.,
for short
96 Paper money
97 Coral community
100Assumed
101 Marvin the Martian,
e.g.
102 Corporate shakeup affecting the companies in the circled letters?
104 Switzerland’s capital
105 Brief brief
107 Signs
108 NYC arena
109 Possessive word
111 Troy research univ.
112 Missy Elliott genre
113 Number of players
in Battleship