Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday December 23rd 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Cartographer’s output : MAP
4 Monica who won three straight ’90s French Opens : SELES
9 HVAC letters : BTU
12 News agcy. : UPI
13 Soft palate part : UVULA
14 Campus housing : DORM
15 Part of a biological hierarchy : TAXONOMIC GROUP
18 Window over a door : TRANSOM
19 Zen garden tools : RAKES
20 Joshua __ National Park : TREE
21 Wound : OFFEND
24 Influential soul label based in Memphis : STAX RECORDS
28 Muslim sect : SHI’ISM
31 “Much __ About Nothing” : ADO
32 Big Ben trio : III
33 Give a fine edge to : HONE
34 Regarding : AS TO
36 Like the president’s office : OVAL
37 “Happy Days” diner : AL’S
38 Sanjay Gupta’s network : CNN
39 Feel contrition : REPENT
41 Waved for transportation : HAILED A TAXI
44 How much to take : DOSAGE
45 Jesters : WAGS
48 Tuscan home of St. Catherine : SIENA
50 Perfect example : EPITOME
53 Rate-rising-with-amount levy that makes its way through four long answers starting at 15-Across : PROGRESSIVE TAX
56 Debtor’s informal notes : IOUS
57 Brownish gray : TAUPE
58 Co. concerned with net neutrality : ISP
59 AC/DC hit with the lyric “Watch me explode!” : TNT
60 Makes do : COPES
61 Howe’er : THO
DOWN
1 Mixed-breed dog : MUTT
2 Here and there? : APART
3 “Coco” studio : PIXAR
4 Images in a beach vacation album : SUNSETS
5 Salad dressing initialism, to Rachael Ray : EVOO
6 Oaf : LUMMOX
7 Director Roth : ELI
8 Cul-de-__ : SAC
9 Request to turn up the volume? : BOOK DRIVE
10 “T” on a test : TRUE
11 Foul callers : UMPS
14 Liquid-Plumr rival : DRANO
16 Layette buy : ONESIE
17 __-Roman wrestling : GRECO
22 Off-campus housing : FRAT
23 Bogart’s “Casablanca” hat : FEDORA
25 “Brockmire” actress Peet : AMANDA
26 Primatologist Fossey : DIAN
27 Riverbed sediment : SILT
28 Ruler deposed in 1979 : SHAH
29 Spanish greeting : HOLA
30 Like a hastily donned T-shirt, perhaps : INSIDE OUT
35 Little problem : SNAG
36 Drug derived from poppies : OPIATE
38 Composer Franck : CESAR
40 Some alimony recipients : EX-WIVES
42 Hungers : LONGS
43 Starts a hole : TEES UP
46 “Capisce?” : GOT IT?
47 Big shot on the tennis court : SMASH
48 Narrow bit of land at a lagoon entrance, say : SPIT
49 Par-3 club, usually : IRON
51 Prop for Frosty : PIPE
52 Trade show : EXPO
54 And so forth: Abbr. : ETC
55 Brazil map word : SAO