Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday August 21st 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Stamford-based humanitarian relief group : AMERICARES
11 Model’s makeup, maybe : CLAY
15 Spot for a wistful stroll : MEMORY LANE
16 Green target : HOLE
17 Brilliance : PROMINENCE
18 Tunnel diggers : ANTS
19 Collect dust : SIT
20 Tamboura kin : SITAR
21 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spin-off : ANGEL
22 Team apparel, informally : UNIS
24 Covert ops outfit : CAMO
25 One may be blank : STARE
26 Mixes together : POOLS
28 Not take well? : POACH
30 Understand : GET
31 Quick cuts : SNIPS
33 Single-serving coffee units : K-CUP PODS
35 Curtains : DOOM
37 Next in line : HEIR
38 Decisive defeat : WATERLOO
42 Condescend : STOOP
45 Cooking student of Martha : INA
46 Preserves, as beef : CORNS
48 1966 Literature Nobelist Nelly : SACHS
50 Tenzing-Hillary Airport site : NEPAL
52 Singer Lorde’s given name : ELLA
54 Rooney __, co-star of the 2015 film “Carol” : MARA
55 Welcoming expression : SMILE
56 Needle : TEASE
58 Tandyr __: Central Asian flatbread : NAN
59 Kick : BOOT
60 “It was fun!” : WHAT A BLAST
62 Subject of Huáscar : INCA
63 Be totally stumped : HAVE NO IDEA
64 Part with teeth : GEAR
65 Short-term bus purchase : ONE-DAY PASS
DOWN
1 Energizes : AMPS UP
2 Sheep originating in Spain : MERINOS
3 Joy, for one : EMOTION
4 __-com : ROM
5 Ring around a pupil : IRIS
6 One “whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”: Bierce : CYNIC
7 Pub device : ALE TAP
8 Went wild : RAN AMOK
9 Cross a line one shouldn’t cross : ENCROACH
10 Take notice : SEE
11 Lamasery music : CHANT
12 Way back : LONG AGO
13 Took in, say : ALTERED
14 “Sure, why not?” : YES, LET’S
21 Barbecue receptacles : ASHPITS
23 What a coach’s hands-down gesture may mean : SLIDE
27 Trivia quiz site : SPORCLE
29 Signals : CUES
32 Flight school hurdle : SOLO
34 Many a charity tournament : PRO-AM
36 Over : MORE THAN
38 Hits the jackpot : WINS BIG
39 Buttercup cousin : ANEMONE
40 Bubble tea ingredient : TAPIOCA
41 Legally off base : ON LEAVE
43 It precedes some puck drops : O CANADA
44 Expresses appropriately : PHRASES
47 Designated : SLATED
49 Some mall hirees : SANTAS
51 Site for a rite : ALTAR
53 Corpse Pose, e.g. : ASANA
57 Many a TikTok teen : E-BOY
60 Warm-hearted Seuss character : WHO
61 __ out: hit the edge of the hole without going in, in golf : LIP
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