SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
BY MATTHEW STOCK, EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS
ACROSS
1 Uses a treadmill
5 Many a personal website 9 Apple player
13 Deceives
19 “Am __ loud?” 20 Spanish tender 21 Purple pet in old cartoons
22 Turn over
23 Excuse for a presidency’s shortcomings? (A+) 26 Antenna
27 Fencing move 28 Distribute
29 Sales agt.
30 Music producer Brian 31 Geopolitical alliance 33 Where Parisians get their newspapers? (A-) 37 Bagel feature
39 Cover story piece? 41 Jet stream heading 42 Bit of sunlight
43 __ au lait
44 Tight end Rob with four Super Bowl rings, familiarly
45 Siddhartha __: the Buddha
47 Wisecracking extraterrestrial of 1980s TV
48 Riot
49 Oscar the Grouch’s backing instrumentalists? (B+)
53 Angry tennis player, perhaps? (B-)
57 Top __
58 Milne character who likes to swing on Tigger’s tail
59 Cook quickly, as vegetables
60 Fraud
61 Parting exchanges 63 Subway Series side 64 “I guess that works” 65 Menial worker 66 “Family __”
67 “Tut-tut” evokers 68 Yardstick’s three 69 Brink
70 __ chic 71 Oscar-nominated film about a South Korean family in rural Arkansas 72 34-Down opposite 73 Space-saving bed 74 Barista-inspired dessert? (O+)
76 Warmup stretches at a company retreat? (O-) 80 Button on some scales 81 Above, in odes 82 “Agreed”
83 Moved furtively 85 Short lunch orders? 86 Knee part, for short 88 “Keep this private” docs
89 Handsome, in Honduras
90 Keep afloat
91 Excited cry when the shellfish course finally arrives? (AB+)
94 Give voice to
96 Confer knighthood on 97 Mess up
98 Nonspecific category 100 Window-switching shortcut
104 Used a loom
106 Reason so many classic songs are earworms? (AB-)
109 Put forth
110 Small sled
111 Ardent
112 Aretha Franklin’s gospel/soul-singing sister 113 Some Ethiopian Christmas celebrants, for short
114 __ so slightly
115 Honor roll stats
116 Overly curious
DOWN
1 Fault
2 Capitol Reef National Park setting
3 Spider-Man __: monochromatic comic book character
4 Like sugar in water 5 Square meal?
6 Schlep
7 Large part of a pod 8 Hold nothing back
9 The bee’s knees and the cat’s meow
10 Old Ford named for a horse
11 Solid yellow ball
12 On the __
13 Infancy, adolescence, etc.
14 Hardly handy
15 Night before 16 One-named Tejano singer
17 Hot now
18 Others, in Oaxaca 24 Key in the sea
25 Not optimistic
29 Said again 32 Legume used in vegan chocolate
34 72-Across opposite 35 Apply messily
36 Many an Emirati 37 Lamb eaten on Eid, e.g. 38 Heard but not seen, maybe
40 Some sacred flowers 43 Those with a driving passion?
44 Post-punk subculture 45 Long-nosed fish 46 Gents
48 “Consarn it!”
49 Special find
50 Sport that encourages horsing around?
51 Infamy
52 Spycraft files 54 Massage target 55 Selling point? 56 Sun-kissed
61 Taproom offering 62 Crack some jokes 63 Stereo alternative 65 Sedate
66 Extra charge
67 Striped yellow ball 69 Portico pillars 70 Buicks, e.g.
71 Indicator
73 Banned refrigerant, for short
74 __ Lingus
75 Riverside rental
77 “__ in the blanks” 78 ESPNU focus
79 Sailor’s boon
83 Dinner rolls? 84 Infielder’s untimely move
85 “Plot twist ... ” 86 Mamá’s mamá 87 Plot-makers 89 Assemble
90 Acrimony
91 Pitching duel? 92 NASA-approved watch brand
93 Park ranger’s post 95 “Downton Abbey” figures
99 Accept an invite, perhaps
101 Poi base
102 Upper limbs 103 Annual milestone, briefly
105 Pet doc
106 __ Henriksen: skin care brand
107 Hon
108 Noche preceder