Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday April 6th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Shipwreck signal : SOS
4 Stan of Marvel Comics : LEE
7 Catch in a trap : SNARE
12 Time period : SPAN
13 Off-roader’s purchase, for short : ATV
14 Quest for intel : RECON
15 *Instant in which emotional decisions are made : HEAT OF THE MOMENT
18 Middle-earth menace : ORC
19 Female surfer : WAHINE
20 Times to remember : ERAS
21 Got a lift, in a way : UBERED
23 Popular mints : CERTS
25 Tea container : CADDY
27 Gradually come to be : DEVELOP
31 Wander about : ROAM
33 Pasture : LEA
35 Where one may be taken to be reprimanded : ASIDE
36 Verb in a recipe : ADD
37 Like jobs with no future … and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? : DEAD-END
40 Tennis court divider : NET
41 Family gathering attendee : NIECE
43 Pacific Coast st. : ORE
44 Loch with a legend : NESS
45 Ties to a post : TETHERS
48 Rene of “Get Shorty” : RUSSO
50 Show flexibility : ADAPT
52 Dampen, as sound : MUFFLE
55 Help in a bad way? : ABET
58 Coral named for its shape : SEA FAN
60 Wheaton who played himself on “The Big Bang Theory” : WIL
61 *Defeat soundly : BEAT THE PANTS OFF
64 More despicable : BASER
65 Talk trash to : DIS
66 Cork’s country : EIRE
67 Cowboy singer Gene : AUTRY
68 Uneaten morsel : ORT
69 Ship in Genesis : ARK
DOWN
1 *Flaky type : SPACE CADET
2 Cheerios grain : OAT
3 Came down in flakes : SNOWED
4 Plastering strip : LATH
5 Value system : ETHIC
6 Tied, as a score : EVENED
7 “Seats all taken” sign : SRO
8 Archrivals : NEMESES
9 Asian laptop brand : ACER
10 Barrett of gossip : RONA
11 Tolkien tree race : ENTS
12 Macedonian neighbor : SERB
15 MLB’s Astros, on scoreboards : HOU
16 “Fiddle-__!” : FADDLE
17 Trifling : MERE
22 Battering __ : RAM
24 Spot on the tube : TV AD
26 Vote of support : YEA
28 *Employment field : LINE OF WORK
29 Keats works : ODES
30 Vets’ concerns : PETS
31 Rave’s partner : RANT
32 Dog in the comics : ODIE
34 Brouhaha : ADO
37 Owner’s document : DEED
38 Blunder : ERR
39 Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __ : NEUMAN
42 Idle talk : CHATTER
44 Bounced-check letters : NSF
46 Reckless : RASH
47 Racer’s bathing suit : SPEEDO
49 Naturally brewed beverage : SUN TEA
51 Animal with a snout : TAPIR
53 Vitality : LIFE
54 Santa helper : ELF
55 Palindromic pop group : ABBA
56 Steady guy : BEAU
57 Toward sunrise : EAST
59 Speedy : FAST
62 “Do or do not. There is no __”: Yoda : TRY
63 Title for Paul or Ringo : SIR
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