The Morning Call (Sunday)

LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ANSWERS FOUND UNDER HOROSCOPE

- 8/13/23 Blood Bank by Matthew Stock

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

 ?? ??

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