Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday April 7th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Go __: hit to right field batting right-handed, say, in baseball lingo : OPPO
5 Trying to block : ANTI
9 Performs like Missy Elliott : RAPS
13 Ruckus : FRAY
14 Eve’s opposite : MORN
15 Sun: Pref. : HELIO
16 *Second Commandment prohibition : FALSE IDOL
18 Heroic sagas : EPICS
19 “Awake and Sing!” dramatist : ODETS
20 South Carolina state tree : PALMETTO
22 *Old-fashioned parting words : FARE THEE WELL
25 See stars : REEL
26 Widen, as pupils : DILATE
30 Fri. preceder : THU
33 “Oh dear!” : ALAS
36 Sherpa’s home : NEPAL
37 *”Cheese stands alone” kids’ song title guy : FARMER IN THE DELL
41 When some dinners are served : AT SIX
42 Delhi wrap : SARI
43 “Narcos” org. : DEA
44 Certain Tibetan : LHASAN
46 Sounds of disgust : UGHS
49 *Metaphorical insect observer : FLY ON THE WALL
55 “Yada, yada, yada” : ET CETERA
58 Old copy : MIMEO
59 Little pigs number : THREE
60 Go to pieces, or what’s literally hidden in the answers to starred clues : FALL APART
63 Tally again : READD
64 Skeleton prefix : ENDO
65 Grandson of Eve : ENOS
66 Geologic spans : EONS
67 __ buco : OSSO
68 “The Banana Boat Song” opener : DAY-O
DOWN
1 No longer using : OFF OF
2 Designer bag brand : PRADA
3 Not as bright : PALER
4 Raw bar mollusk : OYSTER
5 “__ imagining things?” : AM I
6 Doze : NOD
7 Figurative expression : TROPE
8 Eloper’s acquisition : IN-LAW
9 Drove back : REPELLED
10 Came down : ALIT
11 Early Briton : PICT
12 Just okay : SO-SO
15 Fashion variable : HEMLINE
17 Sunrise dirección : ESTE
21 Was ahead : LED
23 Get wind of : HEAR
24 MLB pitcher Dock profiled in the 2014 film “No No: A Dockumentary” : ELLIS
27 Parroted : APED
28 One shared at a campfire : TALE
29 Jazz legend Fitzgerald : ELLA
30 Maker of nonstick cookware : T-FAL
31 Doth possess : HATH
32 Constellation bear : URSA
34 Political commentator Navarro : ANA
35 Walk with a swagger : STRUT
38 Many printer jams : MISFEEDS
39 Praised highly : EXALTED
40 Elevation word : HIGH
45 “Science Guy” Bill : NYE
47 Blood: Pref. : HEMA
48 Ran through a reader : SWIPED
50 Lover of Euridice, in a Monteverdi work : ORFEO
51 Tandoori breads : NAANS
52 Maytag rival : AMANA
53 “Bad, Bad” Brown of song : LEROY
54 Bear voiced by Ned Beatty in “Toy Story 3” : LOTSO
55 Basic French verb : ETRE
56 “Sons of Anarchy” actor Rossi : THEO
57 Fruit drink prefix : CRAN-
61 Mormons’ gp. : LDS
62 Bath bathroom : LOO