LA Times Crossword

Complete List of Clues/Answers   Across 1. Actor Omar with three NAACP Image Awards : EPPS 5. 007’s watch, in the later films : OMEGA 10. Sent to, too : CC’ED 14. Independent African country since 1960 : MALI 15. Santa-tracking acronym : NORAD 16. Jennifer of “Pride and Prejudice” (1995) : EHLE 17. Line erasers? : PLASTIC SURGEONS 20. It carries a charge : ION 21. Stable attendant : HOSTLER 22. Half an ouchie? : BOO 23. Despicable : ROTTEN 25. Genre with ad images : POP ART 27. Stores with a blue-and-yellow logo : IKEAS 28. NYC subway line : IRT 31. “The Divine Comedy” division : CANTO 32. Necklines? : CAROTID ARTERIES 35. Tablet since 2013 : IPAD AIR 36. Title line after “Gray skies are gonna clear up” : PUT ON A HAPPY FACE 44. Actress Aimée : ANOUK 45. Sites with masked workers, briefly : ORS 46. Timeworn : BANAL 47. Delivered a screed : RANTED 49. “Man is condemned to be free” philosopher : SARTRE 50. Thou follower, often : … ART 51. Butler’s classic

Complete List of Clues/Answers   Across 1. Caesar’s fault : CULPA 6. Big box office success, slangily : BOFF 10. PC scroll key : PGUP 14. Rental brand with a hyphen : U-HAUL 15. Like the 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card : RARE 16. Source of fizz : SODA 17. Stock up time? : BULL MARKET 19. Does sum work : ADDS 20. Hebrew wishing well? : SHALOM 21. Shrimper’s catcher : TRAWL NET 23. More than dream : ASPIRE 25. Atlanta campus : EMORY 26. Dreamt, perchance : SLEPT 29. Monument Valley features : MESAS 31. Zero chance : NOT A HOPE 33. Starfleet Acad. grad at the helm : LT SULU 38. Woman in the picture : ACTRESS 39. Old duple-time dances : PAVANES 40. Some religious sculptures : PIETAS 41. Limited state : FINITUDE 42. Event with a horse : VAULT 44. “How Do I Live” singer : RIMES 45. Binary pronoun : HE/SHE 49. Quit : RESIGN 51. “Unbelievable!” : IT CAN’T BE! 53. Hilly terrain features : RIDGES 57. Retreat : LAIR 58. Negotiation-ending words : FAIR ENOUGH

Complete List of Clues/Answers Across 1. Popular peck picker : PETER 6. Sinister “Smallville” supervillain : LEX 9. Ghastly gargantuan gorilla : KING 13. Peaceful : IRENIC 15. Wire service initials : UPI 16. Music halls of old : ODEA 17. Black-and-white bears : PANDAS 18. Like the most rarefied air : THINNEST 20. DFW postings : ETDS 21. Queens tennis stadium : ASHE 23. Small type size : AGATE 24. Seafood delicacy : ROE 25. “I’m Free” musical : TOMMY 27. White House foreign policy gp. : NSC 30. __ school : PREP 31. Conniving carrot cruncher : BUGS 35. Fantastic Four foe : DOCTOR 38. Self-disqualification : RECUSAL 40. Camden Yards team : ORIOLES 42. Fret (over) : AGONIZE 43. Like a short report : ONE-PAGE 44. Acted badly : SINNED 45. Sticky situation : MESS 46. “You said it” : AMEN 49. NFC East team, on crawl lines : NYG 50. Tall toon toothpick : OLIVE 51. Big Pharma watchdog: Abbr. : FDA 54. Flirty Fleischer flapper : BETTY 58. “Me? Never!” : NOT

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

Complete List of Clues/Answers   Across 1. Clever or stylish : SMART 6. October gem : OPAL 10. Most eligible, draftwise : ONE-A 14. Temple scroll : TORAH 15. “The X-Files” agent Scully : DANA 16. Gym specimens : BODS 17. Film character #1 (played by George C. Scott in 1984) : EBENEZER SCROOGE 20. Non-commercial TV commercial : PSA 21. Order (around) : BOSS 22. Canadian province with a French motto : QUEBEC 23. New Mexico art hub : TAOS 24. Little bears : CUBS 25. Film character #2 (played by Leo G. Carroll in 1938) : JACOB MARLEY 29. Polished off : ATE 32. Go along (with) : AGREE 33. Spot for an AirPod : EAR 34. The Grinch’s dog : MAX 35. Meadow bleats : BAAS 36. Fronts of hands : PALMS 38. __ torch: party light : TIKI 39. Commercial URL suffix : BIZ 40. Sac fly result : RBI 41. Makes simpler : EASES 42. No particular one : ANY 43. Film character #3 (played by Kermit the Frog in 1992) : BOB CRATCHIT 46. Like many breakfast bars : OATY 47. Resound : EC

Complete List of Clues/Answers   Across 1. Pumpkin-growing place : PATCH 6. Bitter : ACRID 11. Heat in the microwave : ZAP 14. How a timely stage entrance is made : ON CUE 15. Letter after eta : THETA 16. “Strange Magic” band : ELO 17. Pieman meeter of rhyme : SIMPLE SIMON (giving “simple sugar”) 19. Jack of “Barney Miller” : SOO 20. Persian Gulf ship : OILER 21. Croc’s cousin : GATOR 23. Bovine baby : CALF 26. Toronto NHL team : MAPLE LEAFS (giving “maple sugar”) 29. Upper crust groups : ELITES 31. Corp. kingpin : EXEC 32. Baseball’s Doubleday : ABNER 33. Pad __: Asian noodles dish : THAI 35. Bank acct. addition : DEP 38. Artificial sweetener … and what the end of 17-, 26-, 48- and 58-Across is, literally : SUGAR SUBSTITUTE 42. Moody music genre : EMO 43. Scheme : PLOT 44. Capital of Morocco : RABAT 45. Motown music genre : SOUL 47. Highly adorned : ORNATE 48. Iconic hat-shaped L.A. restaurant : BROWN DERBY (giving “brown sugar”) 53. Hershey’s nibble :

L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2018 Clues Answers "... and your little dog, too!" dog TOTO "I'm with you" METOO "Mandatory Fun" parodist, familiarly WEIRDAL "Mr. Blue Sky" band ELO "On the Bus With Rosa Parks" poet Dove RITA "Scarface" setting MIAMI "Such a pity" SOSAD "The Black Cat" author POE "The Thin Blue Line" director Morris ERROL "Three Coins ..." fountain TREVI