December 20 2018 L.A. Times Daily - Crossword Clues and Answers

Complete List of Clues/Answers

 

Across

1. Goes out : EBBS
5. Car ad fig. : MSRP
9. Poppy extract : OPIUM
14. Stretched to the max : TAUT
15. Cambodian cash : RIEL
16. Italian grandma : NONNA
17. West Coast gas acronym : ARCO
18. Violation of trust : INFIDELITY
20. Kipling’s Rikki-__-Tavi : TIKKI
22. __ Dane : GREAT
23. Familia member : TIA
24. Really get to : NETTLE
26. Beeps and peeps : NOISES
28. Fluffy neckwear : BOA
30. Acts charitably : DOES GOOD
32. Ararat lander : ARK
33. “__ be married, / My grave is like to be my wedding bed”: Juliet : IF HE
34. Potentially offensive, briefly : NOT PC
38. Bumbling one : BEE
39. MDX ÷ X : CLI
40. Unlock, in verse : OPE
42. Bit of soccer support : OLE!
43. Feature of some Gene Autry songs : YODEL
45. Pasternak heroine : LARA
47. “An everyday spud is a commentator,” e.g. : PUN
48. Super Soaker, e.g. : WATER GUN
51. It starts in Mar. : DST
52. Distressed damsel’s cry : SAVE ME!
55. Do business with : SELL TO
57. Takeout menu general : TSO
58. Moisten : BEDEW
60. Tops off : FILLS
63. Too high for people to catch? : ULTRASONIC
66. Meh : BLAH
67. Jacobi of “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) : DEREK
68. UNC Chapel __ : HILL
69. Shakespearean schemer : IAGO
70. Nobel, for one : SWEDE
71. Rights org. : ACLU
72. 1990s-2010s slugging nickname : A-ROD

Down

1. Californie or Floride : ETAT
2. Italian port : BARI
3. Uncovered, in a way : BUCK-NAKED
4. Stir up : STOKE
5. Hosp. test : MRI
6. Grade-school formation : SINGLE FILE
7. Browser button with a curved arrow icon : REFRESH
8. Move in a tutu : PLIE
9. Personal, as a talk : ONE-TO-ONE
10. Party pro : POL
11. Monogram ltrs. : INITS
12. Loosen, as laces : UNTIE
13. Uxmal inhabitants : MAYAS
19. Five-O nickname : DANO
21. “__ be an honor!” : IT’D
25. Work up a sweat : TOIL
27. Altar words : I DO
28. Treat with supreme care : BABY
29. McFlurry flavor : OREO
31. Political commentator who wrote “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” : GEORGE WILL
35. Highest price, and what five Down answers have : TOP DOLLAR
36. + : PLUS
37. Lowest price : CENT
39. Beach cookout : CLAMBAKE
41. Songwriter with John : PAUL
44. Girl in a pasture : EWE
46. Poison in some whodunits : ARSENIC
49. Tight ends? : TEES
50. Viet Cong org. : NLF
52. Small earrings : STUDS
53. Heaps : A SLEW
54. “À __ santé!” : VOTRE
56. Calf neighbor : TIBIA
59. Persian Gulf capital : DOHA
61. Mar-a-__: Florida estate : LAGO
62. Flip-flopped? : SHOD
64. Rosy : RED
65. Gulager of “The Virginian” : CLU

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