Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
BUILDING VOCABULARY
ACROSS
1 Embarrassment 6 Multi-purpose
cotton wad 10 Knack
18 Metric weights 19 Baba ghanoush
bread
20 Pals
21 Low-tech iCloud
precursor 23 Supreme effort 24 Like some wells 25 Kind of case or law 26 Batman and Robin,
e.g.
27 Loses it
31 Savvy
35 Dignify
39 Because of 42 Historic trail
terminus: Abbr. 43 Boot camp bigwig 46 Game whose “Discover the Secrets” version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell 47 Half of ASAP 50 Voyaging 51 Obstructed the
progress of 53 Literally, Latin for “it
follows”
55 Org. concerned
with alleys
57 Late bloomers 58 Shell for a crew 59 Mount once called
Tacoma 63 Stimulant
64 Org. with a lot of
baggage? 65 Billowy attire named for an early rapper
67 Friend of TV’s
Sheldon 70 Entangle ... or
disentangle, oddly 73 Welcomed at the
door 74 VP before Gerald 76 “Blue” or “Red”
cattle dog 78 Uncertain sounds 79 Bygone data entry
method
81 Seat sometimes
spun
83 Crunchy salad bit 86 Try to influence 87 Novel of the South
Seas
88 ’60s-’70s NBC News White House correspondent 92 Icky stuff 93 Dawdles
94 Dabs with a towel 98 Recorded
102 Like original
Matchbox cars
104 Dorm VIPs
105 Cause __: icon
108 Material used to
make cans
112 Flier’s concern
115 Manicurist’s item 118 Air
119 Green Gables girl 120 Tee off
121 Blue
122 Big name in little
trains
123 Eye drops
DOWN
1 Winter resort
feature
2 Big name in hotels 3 Toward the
sheltered side 4 Hang-around-thehouse footwear 5 Morales of “NYPD
Blue”
6 Willpower
7 Prevail
8 Scarfed down 9 Cave dweller 10 Did a takeoff on 11 Upgrade, as a dirt
driveway 12 Levels 13 Muhammad’s
religion
14 Drum with a sitar 15 Parisian article 16 They’re allowed 17 Rough no. 21 Wither away
22 Deli bread 23 Projecting shelf 25 Canine found in
cats
28 Turn partner 29 Popeye’s __’Pea 30 Juan’s “Look!” 32 Place to spin your
wheels
33 More accurate 34 Ranked
tournament players 36 Two-time N.L.
batting champ Lefty 37 Swelter
38 Buildup in a trap 40 Triumphant cry 41 Indivisible
44 QB Jared Goff, e.g. 45 Snares
46 Ticket
47 Second in
command: Abbr. 48 “Just a few __” 49 One of two for a
positive number 52 Venomous snake 54 River through
Kazakhstan
55 Le Pew of toons 56 Bit of finishing
hardware 60 Mosque leader 61 Urquhart Castle’s
loch
62 Vex
63 Eric who founded a
reader
65 Subs
66 F-series camera
maker
68 West Coast gas
brand
69 Doe in many films 71 Plus
72 Review for
accuracy
74 Word heard twice in
“I’m a Little Teapot” 75 Runs smoothly 76 WarnerMedia streaming service recently retired in the U.S.
77 Former Irish leader
de Valera 78 Forearm bone 80 Org. with an annual Week Without Violence
82 Muesli morsel 83 Cheese on
crackers
84 With, on la carte 85 Hombre’s home 89 Death Row
Records co-founder 90 Southernmost
Great Lake 91 Vision-related 95 Don or Betty on
“Mad Men” 96 Top-10 list makers 97 WWI battle river 99 Afflicted with a
breakout
100 Tick off
101 Tiny
103 Fifth cen. pope
called “The Great” 106 Effortlessness
107 Raised
109 Cartographer’s
abbr.
110 Chris who plays Kirk in three “Star Trek” films
111 Babe Zaharias is a charter member of its HOF
112 NFL stat
113 Grassy plain
114 City council rep. 115 __ Geo
116 “__ thoughts?”
117 Business mag