Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday March 23rd 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Fashion brand that makes Luna Rossa Ocean fragrances: PRADA
6 Web crawler?: SPIDER
12 “The Big Bang Theory” character: RAJ
15 Sale caveat: AS IS
19 Narrow: TAPER
20 “Sweet”: OH NICE
21 Big bird: EMU
22 Fill a hold: LADE
23 A spunky teenage girl works as an intern in Silicon Valley?: APPLE BLOSSOM
25 Home of the Lili’uokalani Botanical Garden: HONOLULU
27 “Goosebumps” series writer: STINE
28 Bard’s nightfall: E’EN
29 A forensic anthropologist investigates crime at a nudist colony?: BARE BONES
30 Bach work: CANTATA
33 Center of activity: HUB
34 Blue-white twinklers: B STARS
35 Actress Gilbert: SARA
38 Tic–toe: TAC
39 Shadowbox: SPAR
41 Basketball great Bird: SUE
42 Hugh Laurie’s character practices medicine in Tokyo?: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
48 Yosemite photographer Adams: ANSEL
49 Tabasco kin: TIO
50 Arabian Peninsula citizen: OMANI
51 Sugar peas: SNAP
53 [Yawn]: MEH
54 Tasteless: INSIPID
57 “Sick!”: RAD
58 Saint _ fire: ELMO’S
60 Actress Rae: ISSA
62 Major obligation: ONUS
64 Most in need of a trim: WEEDIEST
66 Is not misused?: AIN’T
68 The bar where “everybody knows your name” opens a franchise in an NYC borough?: BRONX CHEERS
72 “California Gurls” singer Perry: KATY
73 Plan for: FIGURE ON
75 Gobsmack: STUN
76 Get ready: PREP
78 Familiar theme: TROPE
79 Wearable souvenir: TEE
81 Resembling the king of the jungle: LEONINE
84 Crater’s edge: RIM
87 Budget execs: CFOS
88 Eel, to a sushi chef: UNAGI
90 “Lost” actor Daniel Dae _: KIM
91 Stand for: ABIDE
93 Rachel, Ross, and the gang climb the Himalayas?: “FRIENDS” IN HIGH PLACES
97 Pops: DAD
98 Nodder’s phrase: I SEE
99 Shake a leg, quaintly: HIE
100 Salty expanses: SEAS
101 More glum: SADDER
105 Explosive block in Minecraft: TNT
106 Nursery noisemakers: RATTLES
109 A navy lawyer visits the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem?: CRYING JAG
111 Former Interior Secretary Haaland: DEB
112 Wonderland cake words: EAT ME
115 Spot of Texas tea: OIL STAIN
116 High-powered New York attorneys vacation at the Yellowstone Hot Springs?: BATHING SUITS
120 Not very convincing: WEAK
121 Wily: SLY
122 Camden Yards player: ORIOLE
123 “Sneak Previews” co-host Roger: EBERT
124 HR dept. data: SSNS
125 NYC subway org.: MTA
126 Formal announcement: DECREE
127 Bowling alley lineup: LANES
DOWN
1 Fundraising org.: PTA
2 Knocks: RAPS
3 Calendar entry: Abbr.: APPT
4 One might be full of baloney: DELI CASE
5 Big game venue: ARENA
6 Fa follower: SOL
7 Vietnamese soup: PHO
8 Map feature: INSET
9 Pathologists’ focus: DISEASE
10 Sci. of money: ECON
11 Sleep acronym: REM
12 Post-surgery therapy, for short: REHAB
13 Spanish “love”: AMOR
14 Insect similar to a figeater beetle: JUNE BUG
15 Parcel out: ALLOT
16 Hot spot: SAUNA
17 One whiling away the time: IDLER
18 Sam-I-am’s creator: SEUSS
24 Square meal?: BENTO
26 Preoccupied (with): OBSESSED
29 Tuition collector: BURSAR
31 White House family of the early 1910s: TAFTS
32 Popcorn brand: ACT II
33 One of “The Two Coreys”: HAIM
35 Bogus: SHAM
36 First-class: A-ONE
37 Heading out in a hurry: RUSHING OFF
40 Collection of a brand’s goods: PRODUCT LINE
41 Dee of heavy metal: SNIDER
43 Yale grads: ELIS
44 “I’ll give you a lift!”: HOP ON
45 Not just impressed: IN AWE
46 Not similar to: UNLIKE
47 Prepare to haggle, perhaps: NAME A PRICE
52 Fence upright: POST
55 Part of town, for short: NABE
56 “Devil Inside” band: INXS
59 Pen for a pig: STY
61 Daze: STUPOR
63 Elisabeth of “The Boys”: SHUE
65 “NBA Today” airer: ESPN
66 Toward the stern: AFT
67 Texter’s “Unless my memory deceives me”: IIRC
69 Portly: ROTUND
70 Upright: ON END
71 Long, thin mushroom: ENOKI
74 Junk mail addressee: RESIDENT
77 Not made up: REAL
80 Softening: EASING
82 -light: NIGHT
83 Battle cry: I’M HIT
85 Notion: IDEA
86 Total jumble: MESS
89 Point: GIST
92 Low-pitched wind in a marching band: BASS TUBA
94 Auditory ecstasy: EARGASM
95 Religious dissident: HERETIC
96 “Moby-Dick” figure: PELEG
101 Freight tubs: SCOWS
102 Sign of spring: ARIES
103 “The Practice” actor McDermott: DYLAN
104 Floppy : DISKS
105 Tucker of country: TANYA
107 Detest: ABHOR
108 Meeting room stand: EASEL
110 Stand up: JILT
111 “I double-dog _ you!”: DARE 113 Personal bearing: MIEN 114 Basic French verb: ETRE 116 Physique, for short: BOD 117 _ de la Cité: Notre-Dame locale: ILE
118 Once called: NEE
119 Ave. crossers: STS
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