Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Monday June 28th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Skedaddled : FLED
5 Spontaneous notion : WHIM
9 Leveled, as a building : RAZED
14 Tahoe or Titicaca : LAKE
15 Role model : HERO
16 Bakery emanation : AROMA
17 Auto on-off baking gadget : OVEN TIMER
19 Like a legally binding contract : VALID
20 Volkswagen sedan : PASSAT
21 Bring to life, as cartoons : ANIMATE
23 Opposite of WSW : ENE
24 Golfer Aoki : ISAO
25 Tongue twister seashell seller : SHE
28 Artisan who makes delicate items : GLASSBLOWER
34 Locate precisely : PINPOINT
36 “You win” : I LOSE
37 Fascinated by : INTO
38 Prefix with centric : ETHNO-
41 Deco artist Romain de Tirtoff’s pseudonym : ERTE
42 Plant swelling : EDEMA
44 Tutored : MENTORED
46 Exact repetition of what was said : DIRECT QUOTE
49 “You bet!” : YES
50 Sorority T’s : TAUS
51 Shoo-__: easy winners : INS
53 Indonesia’s capital : JAKARTA
57 Idaho product : POTATO
61 Banish : EXILE
62 Three-goals-in-one-game hockey scoring feats … or what the ends of 17-, 28- and 46-Across are when they’re rearranged? : HAT TRICKS
65 Perry of fashion : ELLIS
66 Buckeye State : OHIO
67 Latticework piece : LATH
68 Hits with snowballs : PELTS
69 Checkers or chess : GAME
70 Crossword-solving Simpson : LISA
DOWN
1 Broadway bomb : FLOP
2 Volcano flow : LAVA
3 __ out a living: barely manages : EKES
4 Thick, as fog : DENSE
5 “Little” fib : WHITE LIE
6 Skirt’s edge : HEM
7 Wrath : IRE
8 Boggy tract : MORASS
9 Stuffed pasta pockets : RAVIOLI
10 Composter Khachaturian : ARAM
11 “Nana” novelist Émile : ZOLA
12 Give off : EMIT
13 Florida’s Miami-__ County : DADE
18 Dance that “takes two” : TANGO
22 Capture : NAB
24 __ of Panama: narrow landform : ISTHMUS
25 Went undercover : SPIED
26 Language of India : HINDI
27 Key in : ENTER
29 Colony crawler : ANT
30 Butter substitute : OLEO
31 Fret : WORRY
32 Makeup mogul Lauder : ESTEE
33 Clarinets and oboes : REEDS
35 Apple or pear : POME
39 Prefix with natal or -phyte : NEO-
40 How ballerinas often dance : ON TIPTOE
43 Monroe or Taylor : ACTRESS
45 Pavarotti, vocally : TENOR
47 Pic on a pec, say : TAT
48 Clam used in chowder : QUAHOG
52 “In the __ of the Night”: doo-wop classic : STILL
53 Cherokee automaker : JEEP
54 Wheel shaft : AXLE
55 While away, as time : KILL
56 Landed : ALIT
58 Antioxidant-rich berry : ACAI
59 Sign on a B’way booth : TKTS
60 Fed. workplace monitor : OSHA
63 “Bingo!” : AHA
64 Apple CEO Cook : TIM