L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1

5

Letters and such S. Korean gaming spot

11 Boxing __

15 Manager

19 Patron saint of

sailors

20 Responsible (for)

21 Pay (up)

22 Doozy

23 Toys that may

improve dexterity

24 Zombie armada?

27 Make grooves in

29 Baby’s noise

30 Winged figure in

Christian art

31 Bad press?

38 Marsh plant

40 Salivation stimuli

41 Book after Joel

42 Rhubarb dessert

43 Object of veneration

44 New York Dolls genre

45 Dog’s bane

49 Scary place?

55 Ultradevoted fans

57 Fetch

58 Like a fashionable

arrival

60 Shred

61 Grandmother,

affectionately

62 Elk

65 Get in the way of

66 Mandible

69 Square dance halls?

72 Lounging spot

73 Good for growing 76 77

Elite groups Disney queen whose powers are similar to Jack Frost’s Traveler’s annoyance Actress Jessica Stay active Implore

Faulty method? Discombobulate Bryn __: first U.S. college to offer graduate degrees to women

Lhasa __

Many a noir hero Top spot in Formula One

Says “hi” to

with rock or space

102 Instruction for putting away fishing tackle?

108 Tres plus cuatro

109 Irish actor Stephen

110 Color of corroded

iron

113 Wash gardening

clothes?

120 Capital of Fiji

121 “Bridgerton” actor

__-Jean Page

122 Like a class

presentation

123 Evening affair

124 Place to tie up

125 CinC

126 Yard border, perhaps

127 Hit on the green

80 81 82 86 88 92 93 95 96 97

98 100Word

128 Sister of King Charles

III

DOWN 1

Squad whose colors match the New York City flag

2 Scads

3 Like jumping without

looking

4 On the wrong end of

the score

5 Subject of a 2006

demotion

6 Movie theater

7 “Totally gnarly!”

8 Honor for David and Victoria Beckham: Abbr.

9 Iberian “Hello”

10 Rx order

11 Monopolized a

conversation

12 With everything

counted

13 Higher power?

14 “Golly!”

15 Mel who voiced Bugs

Bunny

16 Intake opposite

17 Idle computer state

18 Belligerent

25 Finishes with buttercream, perhaps

26 __ and means

28 Hotshot

32 Exchange value

33 Miner’s dream

34 “Break a leg!”

preceder 35 Milk sweetener

36 Elicit an “OMG!”

37 “Gladiator” setting

38 Prod

39 German “a”

44 Free

45 Resell quickly

46 Ran with ease

47 Many a musical composition by Czerny

48 Colorado town near

Snowmass

50 Bald eagle, e.g.

51 Coastal inlet

52 Happening place?

53 Actor Peters of the

“X-Men” franchise

54 “Silas Marner”

author

56 Humerus locale

59 Malleable metal

62 Wright brother

63 Like many drones

64 Sleepover duds, for

short

65 British __

66 Sour from

experience

67 Big 52-Down

68 Strauss piece

70 Actor Holbrook

71 Got ready to drive

74 Minimal

75 Strong alkaline

solution

78 Job for many an

action hero

79 Situp muscles

81 In the least 82 Elements in live edge

wood slabs

83 Complete

devastation

84 Soothsayer

85 Village People song covered by the Minions

87 Wild and crazy

89 First name in the

freezer aisle

90 Perform first

91 Not new

94 “Straight Outta

Lynwood” singer

97 Ballad penner

98 Gym closet contents

99 “Yes __!”

100Gives the go-ahead

101 Poodle pampering

place

102 Grab power

103 NFLer supported by

Sourdough Sam

104 Yard border, perhaps

105 Natives of the Central

Plains

106 Sam of “Jurassic

Park”

107 Microwaved

111 “I can’t __”

112 Show gumption

114 “Please explain”

115 Time often named

for a leader

116 Baking soda amt.

117 “__ do __”

118 Bon mot deliverer

119 Morsel