L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

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