L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Bugs

7 Flat-topped hills

12 Faux wood in a

fireplace

18 Pass by

19 Harding biopic

21 Chihuahua coin

22 Place for a rock

24 1984 Jeff Bridges film that begins with a UFO crash

25 Shorthand system

26 Just

27 Place for a roll

29 Geometry calculation

31 U.S. intel org.

33 “Trainwreck”

director Judd

34 Place for a rock

39 Carbon compound

40 Short evening wear?

43 Driver’s assignment:

Abbr.

44 Microsoft Office default typeface until 2007

45 Ore-Ida side,

familiarly

47 Tech company with

an exclamation point

49 Envelope abbr.

51 Burden

52 Take a break

55 Hulu alternative

56 Left high and dry

58 Place for a roll

61 __ as punch

62 Bring home

64 Shopping cart count 65 Choice words?

66 Fit together, as some

dolls

69 Brobdingnagian

71 Barbecue fuel

73 Kung __ chicken

76 Booze

78 Bit attachment

80 Dave Barry genre

84 Place for a rock

87 Natural ability

90 Mammal with more gray matter than a human

91 Caesar __

92 Nabe in lower

Manhattan

93 Miami Heat coach

Spoelstra

94 Buy time

96 Australia’s national

gemstone

98 In the midst of

100 Pub pintful

101 Orecchiette shape

102 Asgard god

105 Place for a roll

108 Actress Jennifer in Capital One commercials Letters after nus “Othello” villain Place for a Rock Matching

Put in more chips, say

Stretch with no landmarks Place for a roll Firsthand accounts 110 111 112 116 118

122

123 126 127 Fast and furious

128 Sharp kitchen tool

129 Tons

130 Knobs on a pipe

organ

131 Respected ones

DOWN

1 Loch in hoax photos

2 Tons

3 Strong wind

4 Word with column or

cord

5 Oregon’s oldest city

6 Cha, chai, or matcha

7 Bog down

8 2021 Marvel movie directed by Chloé Zhao

9 Most tender

10 “32 Flavors” singer

DiFranco

11 Bring into alignment

12 Arrives at

13 Chess legend Karpov

14 Milkshake insert

15 Meat common in

Greek cuisine

16 Shape of sesame

seeds

17 No longer there

20 Indian city with a

mausoleum

21 House channel

23 “Just think ... “

28 Hairy Halloween

costume

30 Disgraced energy

company

32 Make a scene? 34 Swimmer’s woe

35 __ Pradesh: Indian

state

36 Fashionably dated

37 “All in the Family”

spinoff

38 Short trips

40 Part of a magazine

spread

41 Class clown

42 Some whiskey drinks

46 Largest island in

French Polynesia

48 Wall flowers, perhaps

50 Wall or flower

53 Architect’s detail,

briefly

54 Muppet who rarely

says “I”

57 Port city south of Kyiv

58 __ Lankan rupee

59 Take heat from?

60 Japan’s largest

beermaker

63 Factor in sibling

rivalry, often

67 Costco rival,

familiarly

68 Bulky brass

instrument

70 Bridal bio word

72 Instrument for a

troubadour

73 Counterpart of

poetry

74 Place for a stent

75 Prized statuette

77 Sanders, for one

79 “No Logo” author

Klein 81 Big picture?

82 Black swan of ballet

83 Type in again

85 Rogue computer of

sci-fi

86 Small amount

88 Hypocritical sorts

89 Polynesian kingdom with more than 170 islands

92 Tortilla chip topper

95 Adds, as paper to a

copier

97 Fish in some

omelets

99 Series of bad takes

103 Appliances with

drums

104 Ancient Cuzco

dwellers

106 Not tricked by

107 Gave for a short

time

108 Italian city known for

salami

109 Oldest of the Pointer

Sisters

112 Lombardy lake

113 Cartel founded in

Baghdad

114 Widely shared post

115 Sweeties

117 Karaoke gear

119 Castaway’s home

120 One who’s forwardlooking

121 Makes a misstep

124 Interest rate fig.

125 Safety gear for ER

workers