Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday July 11th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Daffy Duck feature : LISP
5 Throws, as the shot : PUTS
9 Real grind : SLOG
13 Second most populous city in the Dakotas : FARGO
18 Chip in a chip : ANTE
19 Brand with a wasabi-flavored variety in China : OREO
20 Necklace-fastening site : NAPE
21 Most of the Earth’s surface : OCEAN
22 *Extra : READ ALL ABOUT IT
25 Brought up : REARED
27 Paint fight sounds : SPLATS
28 Corned beef concoction : REUBEN
29 Latte maker : BARISTA
30 31-Across prefix : TELE-
31 Cruise stopover : PORT
32 *Bad : LEROY BROWN
34 Since : AS OF
36 Small island : CAY
38 Afore : ERE
39 Make out, in Manchester : SNOG
40 *Liar : … PANTS ON FIRE
45 Attends to : MINDS
47 In an absurd fashion : INANELY
48 Popular roller coaster name : CYCLONE
50 Squatters build them : QUADS
55 Saucy : PERT
56 Big Apple designer initials : DKNY
58 Choice words? : ORS
59 Some campus coaches : TUTORS
60 Messy room metaphor : STY
61 Bakery output : PIES
62 Plot size : ACRE
64 Intellectual : THINKER
65 *Hail : … THE GANG’S ALL HERE
68 Apollo and Artemis : ARCHERS
71 System developed at Bell Labs : UNIX
72 Get rid of : OUST
73 Banned pesticide : DDT
76 Whizzes : MAVENS
77 Waze option: Abbr. : RTE
78 Ostentation : POMP
79 Toon explorer with a talking purple backpack : DORA
80 Like 20 Questions questions : YES/NO
81 More irritable : FUSSIER
84 Like a probability distribution with two peaks : BIMODAL
86 Say “I do,” maybe : MARRY
88 *Ladybird : FLY AWAY HOME
90 Suit in a Spanish deck of cards : OROS
94 Madre’s sister : TIA
95 Mois après avril : MAI
96 “The Big __ Theory” : BANG
97 *Wait : … DON’T TELL ME
100 Burn slightly : CHAR
102 Air 2 or Pro : IPAD
106 In general : OVERALL
107 They’re sometimes goodies : OLDIES
109 Expert advice : PRO TIP
111 Sympathize : RELATE
112 *Hush : SWEET CHARLOTTE
114 Fed settings : RATES
115 Second half of a children’s game : SEEK
116 Olympian queen : HERA
117 __ mad: to the max : LIKE
118 Practices in a ring : SPARS
119 Language that gave us “plaid” : ERSE
120 Boundary-pushing : EDGY
121 Villain in “The Lion King” : SCAR
DOWN
1 “Dancer in the Dark” Palme d’Or winner von Trier : LARS
2 Clumsy : INEPT
3 Hardly new : STALE
4 Item common to bikes and pianos : PEDAL
5 D.C. bigwigs : POLS
6 Address without lat. or long. : URL
7 Detachable strip : TEAR OFF
8 Serious : SOBER
9 Ignore pointedly : SNUB
10 In recent history : LATELY
11 Offer a view : OPINE
12 “__ Out”: 2017 Jordan Peele film : GET
13 Made inroads : FORAYED
14 Biting, as wit : ACERB
15 Shows over : RE-AIRS
16 Actress Greer with the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech : GARSON
17 Kind of punch : ONE-TWO
23 Order to relax : AT EASE
24 Verbal protest : OUTCRY
26 Freaking : DANG
29 Carried : BORNE
31 Quarter barrels for a beer bash : PONY KEGS
33 Controlling power : REINS
35 Perseveres, with “on” : SOLDIERS
37 Old nuclear agcy. : AEC
40 Dicey spots? : PIPS
41 Working without __ : A NET
42 Not, quaintly : NARY
43 Explosive stuff : TNT
44 Like some roads and receptions : ICY
45 Gourmet mushroom : MOREL
46 Pipsqueak : SQUIRT
49 Seuss character who “speaks for the trees” : LORAX
51 Alternative media namesake : UTNE
52 Perfectly fine : A-OK
53 __ Johnson, Anthony Anderson’s “Black-ish” role : DRE
54 Pre-1991 Georgia, e.g.: Abbr. : SSR
57 DOD intel arm : NSA
59 Dramatic artist : THESPIAN
61 Whiz kid : PHENOM
62 Choreographer de Mille : AGNES
63 TV franchise with a Vegas spin-off : CSI
64 Digital conflict? : THUMB WAR
65 Before … or after : THEN
66 Wacko : NUTSY
67 Head of MI6? : LOO
68 Senator Klobuchar : AMY
69 Issa of “Insecure” : RAE
70 Papers in a job recruiter’s office, briefly : CVS
73 Bird last seen in 1662 : DODO
74 Apothecary’s weight : DRAM
75 Story : TALE
77 Urban opposite : RURAL
78 Nose (into) : PRY
79 “I’m so dense!” : D’OH
81 Purely decorative detail : FRILL
82 “__ body meet … ” : IF A
83 Bring forth : ELICIT
85 The Temptations’ first #1 single : MY GIRL
87 Dieted : ATE LESS
89 Embarrassed : ABASHED
90 Reason for shoe inserts : ODOR
91 Perseverance and Curiosity : ROVERS
92 Track’s 400 meters : ONE LAP
93 Layers : STRATA
95 Free-for-alls : MELEES
98 Where a tot might come from? : TATER
99 Grass accessory : MOWER
101 Anne of “Psycho” (1998) : HECHE
103 Aquatic arenas : POOLS
104 Bertha was locked in one in “Jane Eyre” : ATTIC
105 Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX winning coach : DITKA
108 Denzel’s role in “The Little Things” (2021) : DEKE
109 Beseech : PRAY
110 __ pressure : PEER
112 Dir. the Kings travel to play the Lakers : SSE
113 Tango’s co-birthplace: Abbr. : ARG
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