LA Times Daily Crossword September 24, 2023 Answers

1. Beach community near Tourmaline Surfing Park 8. Bear claw or beaver tail 14. Hunk of granite 18. Seething 19. Former first lady, familiarly 20. Room 21. Big name in health insurance associations 23. Foam art medium 24. Lacking 25. Like many Etsy shops 26. "Don't change a thing!" 28. Mirror fogger 31. Old Pontiac muscle car 32. Long time 34. Tabloid twosome 35. Quaint emporium 41. "The Voice" coach Gwen 45. Measles symptom 46. Pop star 47. Preschool activity with crayons 51. Bogus 53. Big exporter of saffron 54. Tart-tasting fruit 55. Firewood protector 58. Nintendo princess 59. Sheet type 62. Mmes., in Mérida 64. Electronic control mechanisms, briefly 66. Base for some sashimi 67. Go it alone 70. Actress Vardalos 73. Squanders 74. Entwined 75. Line that intersects a circle in two places 77. Three-dimensional 80. 61-Down follower 82. Belgian surrealist Magritte 84. "Hold __ your hat!" 85. Like pedi-showing shoes 87. Hopeful expression after two failures 91. Lemon drinks 92. European capital known as the "City of a Hundred Spires" 95. Melodic passages 96. Tony Award-winning musical based on a Manuel Puig novel 101. Like the Atacama Desert 102. __ port in a storm 103. Mork's planet 104. Software test versions 108. "__ Files": long-running true-crime series 111. Structural girder 113. __ snuff 115. WWII sub 116. Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo 121. Where Ducks and Penguins play? 122. Diehards 123. Same old same old 124. Garlands of okika or pikake 125. Star-shaped bloomers 126. Prodded

1. Culture centers? 2. Book replaced by GPS 3. Short excursion 4. Like Nero Wolfe 5. Cured salmon 6. Ad follower 7. Penne __ vodka 8. Turn down 9. Heading for the whirlpool, say 10. Enjoy Stowe 11. Knotted accessory 12. Repaired, as car brakes 13. Jedi who said, "Always in motion is the future" 14. Extras in trunks 15. Newer, as an automobile 16. When Alexander meets Eliza, in "Hamilton" 17. Borscht base 19. Passat alternative 20. Roulette wheel components 22. Craving 27. "Same for me!" 29. Many miles off 30. Cable series about an erotic magazine for women 32. Put forth, as energy 33. Med. condition portrayed on "Monk" 36. French wines 37. Beats by __ 38. Amateur 39. Map line 40. Spanish "she" 41. Hugo Award genre 42. Cheerio-shaped 43. Make happy 44. Arial, for one 48. Belfast's province 49. Despondent 50. "Ivy and __": kid-lit series by Annie Barrows 52. Breakout area, to dermatologists 56. "Yours" alternative 57. Deal with an email error message, maybe 60. On the money 61. 80-Across preceder 63. Farm noun or verb 65. 19-Down and others, briefly 68. Speaks 69. Onigiri wrapper 70. Grannies 71. Prologue 72. Bohr model subjects 73. Series of successes 76. Silver salmon 77. Cable cable, familiarly 78. Off-the-neck hairstyle 79. Chef Boyardee concoction 81. Prepare for an 83-Down, say 83. Apt rhyme for "cram" 86. Slanted columns 88. Laugh half 89. Many a Saudi native 90. French film 93. Southwestern people 94. Negroni need 97. Help for those at sea 98. Many "Westworld" characters 99. Builders of dome-shaped nests 100. "Works for me!" 105. Mozart's "Così fan __" 106. Peony pest 107. __ pad 108. Roll up 109. Stage honor 110. Chichén __: pyramid site 111. Grammy-winning album for Tyler, the Creator 112. Female horse 114. Yoked bovines 117. Scarf down 118. Hoppy quaff 119. Eggy quaff 120. Sought buried treasure, perhaps