Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday August 21st 2024, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Forecaster’s tool? : ESP
4 Sow’s opposite : REAP
8 Forecaster’s tool : RADAR
13 Wong of “Beef” : ALI
14 Seal predator : ORCA
15 Lady Liberty’s land, familiarly : US OF A
16 Bay Area industry : TECH
18 *Skeptical response to an ultimatum : OR ELSE WHAT20 Unwilling to be swayed from : SET ON
22 Driver’s “Star Wars” role : REN
23 “Were your __ burning?” : EARS
24 *Swashbuckling feline voiced by Antonio Banderas : PUSS IN BOOTS
28 Retired Bing assistant : CORTANA
29 Shout to a diva : BRAVA
32 Days before : EVES
33 Vocal quality after a long speech, perhaps : RASP
36 Giving a good look : EYING
38 Flanders who lives on Evergreen Terrace : NED
39 *”Absitively posolutely!” : HECK YES
41 Change one’s tone? : DYE
42 Innate characteristic : TRAIT
44 Role : PART
45 Nintendo rival : SEGA
46 Electronic instrument, for short : SYNTH
48 National Park vacation package, perhaps : ECOTOUR
50 *Common side with chiles rellenos : SPANISH RICE
53 Burn treatment : ALOE
56 Bushwacker liquor : RUM
57 Skyscraper abundance : GLASS
59 Hybrid dog breed, literal examples of which can be found in the answers to the starred clues : TERRIER MIX
63 “Frozen” sister : ELSA
64 Runs into : MEETS
65 Click a floppy disk icon : SAVE
66 Stocking stuffer? : LEG
67 Tiny bit : SKOSH
68 “Grand” ice cream : EDY’S
69 U.S. ID issuer : SSA
DOWN
1 Puts away : EATS
2 Some tween parties : SLEEPOVERS
3 When school is full of posers? : PICTURE DAY
4 Aussie hopper : ROO
5 Go astray : ERR
6 Biting : ACERB
7 Diet that avoids processed foods : PALEO
8 Regret : RUE
9 In a manner of speaking : AS WE SAY
10 City whose name comes from the Arabic for “roundness” : DOHA
11 Nowhere near : AFAR
12 “Dagnabbit!” : RATS
17 Slews : HOSTS
19 Craft beer aficionado, perhaps : SNOB
21 Unit with a classified no. of employees : NSA
25 Memo header : IN RE
26 Image Awards gp. : NAACP
27 Very, in Vichy : TRES
28 Minor change? : CENT
30 What Zoomers are up to these days? : VIDEO CALLS
31 “Who thinks they know the answer?” : ANY GUESSES
34 Reel Big Fish genre : SKA
35 Funeral piles : PYRES
37 Camper’s bagful : GEAR
39 Address letters : HTTP
40 __ A Sketch : ETCH
43 Some orthotic devices : INSERTS
45 Subway spinner : STILE
47 Fabled braggart : HARE
49 Assn. : ORG
51 Breastfeed : NURSE
52 “So cheesed off!” : I’M MAD
53 Note givers : ATMS
54 Shallot relative : LEEK
55 McCafé frappé flavor : OREO
58 Overdrawn account? : SAGA
60 Thereabouts : ISH
61 Wrigley Field plant : IVY
62 Marks (out) : XES
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