Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday September 24th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Beach community near Tourmaline Surfing Park : LA JOLLA
8 Bear claw or beaver tail : PASTRY
14 Hunk of granite : SLAB
18 Seething : AT A BOIL
19 Former first lady, familiarly : JACKIE O
20 Room : SPACE
21 Big name in health insurance associations : BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
23 Foam art medium : LATTE
24 Lacking : SANS
25 Like many Etsy shops : ARTSY
26 Don’t change a thing! : I ADORE IT
28 Mirror fogger : STEAM
31 Old Pontiac muscle car : GTO
32 Long time : EON
34 Tabloid twosome : ITEM
35 Quaint emporium : FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE
41 The Voice coach Gwen : STEFANI
45 Measles symptom : RED DOT
46 Pop star : IDOL
47 Preschool activity with crayons : COLOR BY NUMBER
51 Bogus : NOT REAL
53 Big exporter of saffron : IRAN
54 Tart-tasting fruit : SLOE
55 Firewood protector : TARP
58 Nintendo princess : ZELDA
59 Sheet type : FITTED
62 Mmes., in Mérida : SRAS
64 Electronic control mechanisms, briefly : SERVOS
66 Base for some sashimi : ICE
67 Go it alone : STRIKE OUT ON ONE’S OWN
70 Actress Vardalos : NIA
73 Squanders : WASTES
74 Entwined : WOVE
75 Line that intersects a circle in two places : SECANT
77 Three-dimensional : CUBIC
80 61-Down follower : TRES
82 Belgian surrealist Magritte : RENE
84 Hold __ your hat! : ONTO
85 Like pedi-showing shoes : OPEN-TOE
87 Hopeful expression after two failures : THIRD TIME’S A CHARM
91 Lemon drinks : ADES
92 European capital known as the “City of a Hundred Spires” : PRAGUE
95 Melodic passages : ARIOSOS
96 Tony Award-winning musical based on a Manuel Puig novel : KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
101 Like the Atacama Desert : ARID
102 __ port in a storm : ANY
103 Mork’s planet : ORK
104 Software test versions : BETAS
108 __ Files: long-running true-crime series : FORENSIC
111 Structural girder : I-BEAM
113 __ snuff : UP TO
115 WWII sub : U-BOAT
116 Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo : THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
121 Where Ducks and Penguins play? : RINKS
122 Diehards : ZEALOTS
123 Same old same old : ROUTINE
124 Garlands of okika or pikake : LEIS
125 Star-shaped bloomers : ASTERS
126 Prodded : EGGED ON
DOWN
1 Culture centers? : LABS
2 Book replaced by GPS : ATLAS
3 Short excursion : JAUNT
4 Like Nero Wolfe : OBESE
5 Cured salmon : LOX
6 Ad follower : LIB
7 Penne __ vodka : ALLA
8 Turn down : PASS ON
9 Heading for the whirlpool, say : ACHY
10 Enjoy Stowe : SKI
11 Knotted accessory : TIE
12 Repaired, as car brakes : RELINED
13 Jedi who said, “Always in motion is the future” : YODA
14 Extras in trunks : SPARE TIRES
15 Newer, as an automobile : LATE MODEL
16 When Alexander meets Eliza, in “Hamilton” : ACT I
17 Borscht base : BEET
19 Passat alternative : JETTA
20 Roulette wheel components : SLOTS
22 Craving : URGE
27 Same for me! : DITTO
29 Many miles off : AFAR
30 Cable series about an erotic magazine for women : MINX
32 Put forth, as energy : EXERT
33 Med. condition portrayed on “Monk” : OCD
36 French wines : VINS
37 Beats by __ : DRE
38 Amateur : NON-PRO
39 Map line : ROAD
40 Spanish “she” : ELLA
41 Hugo Award genre : SCI-FI
42 Cheerio-shaped : TORIC
43 Make happy : ELATE
44 Arial, for one : FONT
48 Belfast’s province : ULSTER
49 Despondent : MOROSE
50 Ivy and __: kid-lit series by Annie Barrows : BEAN
52 Breakout area, to dermatologists : T-ZONE
56 Yours alternative : AS EVER
57 Deal with an email error message, maybe : RESEND
60 On the money : EXACT
61 80-Across preceder : DOS
63 Farm noun or verb : SOW
65 19-Down and others, briefly : VWS
68 Speaks : UTTERS
69 Onigiri wrapper : NORI
70 Grannies : NANAS
71 Prologue : INTRO
72 Bohr model subjects : ATOMS
73 Series of successes : WIN STREAKS
76 Silver salmon : COHO
77 Cable cable, familiarly : COAX
78 Off-the-neck hairstyle : UPDO
79 Chef Boyardee concoction : BEEFARONI
81 Prepare for an 83-Down, say : STUDY
83 Apt rhyme for “cram” : EXAM
86 Slanted columns : OP-EDS
88 Laugh half : -HEE
89 Many a Saudi native : ARAB
90 French film : CINE
93 Southwestern people : APACHES
94 Negroni need : GIN
97 Help for those at sea : HINTS
98 Many “Westworld” characters : ROBOTS
99 Builders of dome-shaped nests : WRENS
100 Works for me! : OKAY!
105 Mozart’s “Così fan __” : TUTTE
106 Peony pest : APHID
107 __ pad : STENO
108 Roll up : FURL
109 Stage honor : OBIE
110 Chichén __: pyramid site : ITZA
111 Grammy-winning album for Tyler, the Creator : IGOR
112 Female horse : MARE
114 Yoked bovines : OXEN
117 Scarf down : EAT
118 Hoppy quaff : ALE
119 Eggy quaff : NOG
120 Sought buried treasure, perhaps : DUG
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