Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Fairy tale brute 5 Bamako’s country 9 Lethargy
15 Bygone Swedish
car company 19 Maggie Smith’s
“Good Bones,” e.g. 20 Agenda
21 Oat Milk Blend
shampoo maker 22 Combustible pile 23 Startling revelation
for a couch potato? 25 Menu of familysized KFC options? 27 Just-in-case item 28 “Let Me Love You”
R&B singer
30 Like many a safari
cat
31 Water cooler
sound
33 Had to have 35 Apex predators of
the ocean 39 Rowan Atkinson
character
42 Butters up,
perhaps 44 Religious residence 45 Not theirs
46 More oozy 48 Makes jigsaw
puzzles, perhaps 49 Brief “If you ask
me”
50 Full-time employee at a corn processing plant? 54 Tiny criticism 55 Kanga’s kid 56 Credit __: Zurich
bank
57 Director Reitman and tennis great Lendl
58 Golf bag item 59 Fred of
“Schmigadoon!” 61 __ now and then 62 Heat unit
64 Sp. titles 65 12-Down and
50-Down, maybe 68 Pride sound 69 Command to a
guard dog
71 Bits
72 Feels like
75 “I hate it”
76 Chat with online 77 Fine 80 Hornswoggled 81 “On the other hand
... ”
82 Did too much
heavy lifting? 84 Med. condition with
repetitive behavior 85 Bistro VIP
87 Paged
88 Garden center
bagful
89 Ruler divisions 90 Mexican market 93 Like an overtired
child, maybe 95 Co-star of Nimoy
and Shatner 96 Type of canoe 97 Russian refusal 98 Derek’s ex-wife on
“Grey’s Anatomy” 100 Sushi bar drink
103 Wall recess
107 Really, really cheap
liquor?
111 Ruse for crashing
family reunions? 113 Genre for some
Tokyo-based bands 114 Does the job
perfectly
115 Costa __
116 Blob’s lack
117 Small tastes
118 __ out of: slyly
avoided
119 Particle accelerator
particle
120 Jedi Council leader
DOWN
1 Backs (out) 2 Ascend
3 “For My Broken Heart” singer McEntire
4 Surfaces
5 Radar gun reading:
Abbr.
6 Parallel to 7 Shoestring
8 Blue Pac-Man ghost 9 Can opener 10 Small eggs
11 Flow back 12 Aromatic Sri
Lankan exports 13 Upturned, as a box 14 Naan alternative 15 Ball-shaped 16 Sailor’s affirmative 17 Equal
18 Exacta or trifecta 24 Actress Ward 26 Dormitory
annoyance 29 Cyclops feature 32 Separates, in a way 34 Mouse hat feature 36 Food Network production featuring a chef’s work surface? 37 More chichi 38 Modus operandi 39 Catherine’s “Schitt’s
Creek” role
40 Buzz
41 Sweeping segment of a prop comic’s act?
42 Mercury and Mars 43 River inlets 44 Pizzeria output 47 Actor/director Ken 48 Fashion letters 50 Aromatic Indian
export
51 Busy place
52 Iris layer
53 Roller coaster parts 60 Wrath
61 Some Spielberg
movie collectibles 62 In shape 63 Sombrero, e.g. 65 Icy coating 66 Elevator name 67 Soft mineral 68 Zoomed past 69 Turn in
70 Large lizard with
dewlaps
71 Chatted with
online, for short 72 Moist towelette 73 Implied
74 “Strange to say ... ” 76 Nights before 77 Some athletic
shoes
78 Listen to 79 Research on a
political rival, briefly 82 Frozen fries maker 83 Howard or Alcorn,
for short
86 Tour de France
mountains
88 Hit the spot 90 Iditarod driver 91 Narcissist’s problem 92 “Be My Baby”
memoirist Spector 94 Actress Russo 96 Hustle genre 97 Maker of sweet
wafers
99 Sketch
101 Preternatural glow 102 Make a scarf, say 104 Jimmy __: fashion brand known for expensive shoes 105 Difficult
106 Actress Thompson 107 Pros using mixers,
for short
108 Nail polish brand 109 Cut (off)
110 Takeoff approx.
112 Hasty escape