Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday December 5th 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Doesn’t block : ADMITS
7 Financial crime trial evidence : LEDGER
13 Daybreak? : SIESTA
14 Pronoun sung multiple times in the 1968 hit “Turn Around, Look at Me” : SOMEONE
15 French president after Hollande : MACRON
16 One can hold about 500 hours of HD video : TERABYTE
17 “I hate that!” : UGH
18 Wine-and-food match, e.g. : PAIRING
20 Ancient refuge : ARK
21 Compensate for goofing off, maybe : CRAM
23 Fill with wonder : AMAZE
24 Not busy : FREE
25 Capital NE of Vientiane : HANOI
27 Cream __ : PIE
28 __ one’s time: waited : BIDED
29 Motivation in “The Manchurian Candidate” : MIND CONTROL
32 Designers’ tools : COLOR WHEELS
34 Begged off formally : SENT REGRETS
36 Negotiations : TALKS
39 Proof letters : QED
40 Guitar attachment : STRAP
42 Fruit picked from palms : ACAI
43 Old Venetian coin : DUCAT
45 Estate __ : SALE
46 Place for a bargain : BIN
47 “See here, fella … ” : LOOK, YOU
49 Misfortune : WOE
50 Leftovers : ODDMENTS
52 Nervous excitement : TREMOR
54 Singer who played a hacker in “Ocean’s 8” : RIHANNA
55 Francia neighbor : ESPANA
56 Enterprise engineer : SCOTTY
57 Small town symbol : MAIN ST
DOWN
1 To the same degree : AS MUCH
2 Sentence model used in language teaching : DIAGRAM
3 Pit crew member : MECHANIC
4 State since 1948: Abbr. : ISR
5 Sporty car option : T-TOP
6 Arabian Peninsula capital : SANA’A
7 Producer Michaels : LORNE
8 Salon, for one : E-MAG
9 Ball star : DEB
10 Homer, in baseball jargon : GO YARD
11 Main menu item : ENTREE
12 Gave a strong impression (of) : REEKED
14 Motto attributed to Horace : SEIZE THE DAY
16 Total disasters : TRAIN WRECKS
19 Reason for a Champagne shortage, maybe : IMPORT QUOTA
22 Snowboard relative : MONOSKI
24 Sole food : FILLETS
26 Waits at the drive-thru : IDLES
28 Participants in Africa’s 1830s-’40s Great Trek : BOERS
30 Cell occupant : CON
31 Short rule? : REG
33 Deliberately weak argument metaphor : STRAW MAN
35 Stereotypical swinging-doors sites : SALOONS
36 Small drums : TABORS
37 Like vinegar : ACIDIC
38 Cry from a nest? : LAND HO
41 Study closely : PEER AT
43 Youngest of a ’60s-’70s male quintet, familiarly : DONNY
44 Carved symbol : TOTEM
47 Gave for a while : LENT
48 __ Minor : URSA
51 Sweeper’s convenience? : MAT
53 Center opening : EPI-
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