LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Opposite Day by Brian Thomas & Brooke Husic
ACROSS
1 Cat’s attentiongetter, maybe 4 Car once advertised as a “well-built Swede” 8 Endpoint for some boots and skirts 13 Like cookies soon after the Cookie Monster spots them 18 Equine parent 20 Anti-censorship org. 21 Provençal mayo 22 Only just 23 Drill sergeant, perhaps? 27 New York, for one 28 Lubricate 29 Return 30 Audrey Hopburn letters 31 Distribution parties 34 Ellington composition 35 Inning’s trio? 36 Collective action by society women? 41 French bread? 43 Part of an underwater forest 44 One-eighty 45 Movie trailer? 47 Pick up 49 Farm bird that never topples? 55 Wrath 56 Honeycomb unit 57 Rep. from the Bronx 58 WWF, e.g. 59 Mountain goats’ terrain 62 Temperamental 63 Org. with the largest-circulation magazine in the U.S. 65 Corner store 66 Amendment proposed by a technophile? 70 Cut and paste, say 71 Ibex range 72 Drops 73 Invite for 74 Gretchen of “Boardwalk Empire” 75 La Liga cheer 76 Contact __ 77 Carol contraction 78 Like a typical ride on a mechanical bull? 83 Some Japanese TVs 86 “I don’t care!” 87 Terr. divided in 1889 88 Kiwi-shaped 90 Color of Montana’s flag 92 Endure within a group of peers? 97 __ carte 98 “Hair Love” voice actress Issa 100 Strapless bralette 101 “__ Lasso” 102 Passing remark? 104 Slides (over) 107 Hides in plain sight? 109 Death and taxes, per Benjamin Franklin? 114 Contributed 115 French 101 verb 116 Ziggurat level 117 Shoestring catch? 118 Creates a Maillard reaction on a steak, say 119 Gave back, as land 120 Be worthy of 121 Nestlé’s __-Caps
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1 Nintendo : DS :: Sony : __ 2 Measure typically given in knots 3 Like some data disks 4 Chili-based Vietnamese condiment 5 The “A” of LGBTQIA+, for short 6 The “A” of 30-Across 7 __ cord 8 Maximally vanilla 9 “Howdy there!” 10 Cyclotron particles 11 “I’m rubber, you’re __ ... “12 That guy 13 Fired up 14 Prefix with Mexico 15 BOGO deal 16 Weather-affecting Pacific current 17 Politburo nos 19 Noblezada of “Easter Sunday” 24 Bumping heads 25 Drops the ball, say 26 __-free plastic 30 Brief “Beats me!” 32 Fit of pique 33 Great Basin native 34 Sends off the soccer pitch 37 Far from relaxed 38 Color TV pioneer 39 Offline, briefly 40 Kenan’s “Good Burger” co-star 42 Sch. that competes against Notre Dame for the Jeweled Shillelagh 46 [Crossing my fingers!] 48 German “first” 49 Bright shades 50 Ye __ Shoppe 51 Eschew a co-pilot 52 Real talent 53 Wading bird 54 “Au contraire!” 56 Member-owned grocery 59 Espresso froth 60 Free from 61 Fleet of foot 62 Chemistry class model 63 Filling with wonder 64 Children’s song marchers 65 Text in a longdistance relationship, maybe 67 Tibia neighbor 68 Spilled salt, to some 69 Thinking a song is about oneself, say 75 Music store supply 77 Roll the dice, say 79 Pacific Northwest sch. 80 Hawaiian for “white” 81 Texting tech 82 “If we must die, O __ us nobly die”: McKay 83 Herb used in some smudging rituals 84 Big hands? 85 Word in an Arthur Miller title 87 RPG with a 20-sided die 89 Acid initials 90 Strawberry __ 91 Highfalutin 93 “All __!” 94 Rolls in yoga class 95 In the office 96 Word after rage or force 97 __ frescas: fruit drinks 99 Passover’s month, often: Abbr. 103 Even once 104 Back up 105 Graceless one 106 Four Tops singer Benson 108 Some laptops 110 __ fly 111 Spy-fi org. 112 Not ‘neath 113 Nwodim of “SNL”