Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday March 20th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Garbage delivery vehicle? : SPAMBOT
8 World Chess Champion Carlsen : MAGNUS
14 Susan Ruttan’s “L.A. Law” role : ROXANNE
15 Used up some of : ATE INTO
17 Like some stockings : TOELESS
18 Attorney’s knowledge base : CASE LAW
19 “Anyone can play,” on game boxes : ALL AGES
20 Pretend : ACT LIKE
21 “Who __?”: New Orleans Saints chant : DAT
22 Slowed : ARRESTED
23 Intelligence : SMARTS
26 Beginning of an apology : MEA
27 One Pillar Pagoda city : HANOI
28 Riding a Segway, say : ON WHEELS
34 Free-spirited : INDIVIDUALISTIC
37 Bestowed on : VESTED IN
38 “Absentia” co-star __ Katic : STANA
39 Permit : LET
40 Dishonestly obtained : STOLEN
41 Runs on : BLABBERS
46 Term of affection : HON
47 Big name in portable illumination : MAGLITE
48 Bond first bought by FDR in 1941 : SERIES E
52 New York natives : ONEIDAS
53 Emergency sorting systems : TRIAGES
54 Tubular pastries : CANNOLI
55 Fruit in some Chinese New Year customs : ORANGES
56 Hardly shines : STINKS
57 Innocently charming : WINSOME
DOWN
1 Quinceañera honoree: Abbr. : SRTA
2 Group to select from : POOL
3 “Beverly Hills Cop” cop Foley : AXEL
4 All thumbs : MALADROIT
5 Less than 2% have this type : B-NEGATIVE
6 Beginnings : ONSETS
7 Rizzoli and Isles creator Gerritsen : TESS
8 Popular ’90s dance : MACARENA
9 How rush-hour traffic often moves : AT A CRAWL
10 Beau __ : GESTE
11 Physics Nobelist the year after Albert : NIELS
12 Hard to see in, at times : UNLIT
13 Chips on the table : STAKE
16 Wasn’t square : OWED
22 Comes (to) : AMOUNTS
23 Homemade knife : SHIV
24 It may be braided for competition : MANE
25 Additions : ANDS
29 One focused on the past : HISTORIAN
30 Tallinn natives : ESTONIANS
31 Too many to name, for short : ET AL
32 It may be a cue : LINE
33 Medical procedure : SCAN
35 Chatter : IDLE TALK
36 Umlaut lookalike : DIERESIS
40 Shepherd formerly of “The View” : SHERRI
41 Coll. QB, stereotypically : BMOC
42 Turner and Wachowski : LANAS
43 Office plant, perhaps : AGENT
44 Pancakes served with sour cream : BLINI
45 Try to buy : BID ON
48 Put overhead, maybe : STOW
49 Eleven’s favorite breakfast brand, in “Stranger Things” : EGGO
50 Look : SEEM
51 Ancient being? : ESSE