December 26 2018 L.A. Times Daily - Crossword Clues and Answers

Complete List of Clues/Answers

 

Across

1. Campus VIP : DEAN
5. __ East, Chicago-based pizza chain : GINO’S
10. Remove politely, as one’s hat : DOFF
14. Entreat : URGE
15. “__ Mio” : ‘O SOLE
16. Malevolence : EVIL
17. Bullied : BROWBEATEN
19. Word processor command : SAVE
20. World Golf Hall of Famer Aoki : ISAO
21. Used TurboTax, perhaps : E-FILED
23. Breakfast fare : FLAPJACK
27. Actor Mineo : SAL
28. Take to a new planter : REROOT
29. “12 Years a Slave” director Steve or “Bullitt” star Steve (not the same person) : MCQUEEN
33. Farewell that is bid : ADIEU
34. Pumps and platforms : SHOES
36. Sorbonne article : UNE
37. Black-plumed pond swimmer : COOT
38. See 54-Across : CLUBS
39. “__ glad to!” : I’D BE
40. Hung. neighbor : AUS
41. Gives the heave-ho : BOOTS
42. Rebuke : SCOLD
43. Stirring up, as resentment : STOKING
45. Solid alcohol : STEROL
46. Circle segment : ARC
47. Commoners : POPULACE
49. Like Dagwood’s wife : BLONDE
52. Ottawa-based flying gp. : RCAF
53. Material flaws : RIPS
54. What’s hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across–if all are in, say, 38-Across : ROYAL FLUSH
60. “Fantastic Beasts” actor Miller : EZRA
61. Twitter troublemaker : TROLL
62. “Off the Court” autobiographer Arthur : ASHE
63. __ and means : WAYS
64. Gumbo pods : OKRAS
65. Cameo stone : ONYX

Down

1. Name : DUB
2. Throw wildly, say : ERR
3. Fourth word in the “Star Wars” intro : AGO
4. Part of four state names : NEW
5. Attacks : GOES AT
6. Fashion designer Mizrahi : ISAAC
7. Unacceptable : NOT OK
8. World Cup cry : OLE!
9. Grows old : SENESCES
10. Arnaz-Ball production company : DESILU
11. Racecourse shape : OVAL
12. Dave Brubeck classic “Take __” : FIVE
13. Took off : FLED
18. Exquisite trinket : BIJOU
22. Web help pgs. : FAQS
23. Skirmish : FRACAS
24. Escorted to the exit : LED OUT
25. Melodic passage : ARIOSO
26. Auden, Blake or Coleridge : POET
29. Tough crowds : MOBS
30. “Why I Live at the P.O.” author Welty : EUDORA
31. As a whole : EN BLOC
32. Acupuncture tool : NEEDLE
34. Tough going : SLOG
35. Crude shelter : HUT
38. Any one of Bach’s Brandenburgs : CONCERTO
39. Most sparsely populated Eur. country : ICEL
41. Owl or osprey : BIRD
42. Odds and ends : STUFF
44. “Dust in the Wind” band : KANSAS
45. Stone chips : SPALLS
47. Richard who played “The Wiz” in 1978 : PRYOR
48. City west of Daytona Beach : OCALA
49. Make, as beer : BREW
50. Oscar winner Minnelli : LIZA
51. Nashville venue : OPRY
55. Mork’s planet : ORK
56. Vientiane language : LAO
57. Org. with admirals : USN
58. Far from forward : SHY
59. Jinx : HEX

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