Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday February 20th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 “Can’t someone else?” : DO I HAVE TO?
10 Floor : AMAZE
15 Mozart’s mother : ANNA MARIA
16 Dressing extreme? : NINES
17 Comebacks : RESPONSES
18 See 43-Across : ANGST
19 Set to assemble : KIT
20 Best Actress between Hilary and Helen : REESE
21 Franklin’s bill : C-NOTE
22 Inferior : WORSE
24 Unwanted information, usually : SPOILER
26 Small sewing case : ETUI
27 Cantore in a storm : JIM
30 Member of the first class of World Golf Hall of Fame inductees, 1974 : SNEAD
31 Retreated : BACKPEDALED
34 “Voilà!” : THERE YOU ARE
37 Expression of mock sympathy : TOO BAD, SO SAD
40 Involuntary contraction : SPASM
43 Genre full of 18-Across : EMO
44 Part of un drame : ACTE
45 Forms a union? : MARRIES
47 More than just talk : ORATE
48 Single out : ELECT
49 Appear by surprise : POP IN
53 Ring site : LIP
54 Rushed toward : RAN AT
55 “Either or” : I DON’T CARE
57 Rough : CRUDE
58 “… quaint and curious volume of __ lore”: Poe : FORGOTTEN
59 Really excited : HYPER
60 Democracy concern : FREE PRESS
DOWN
1 Limited-access internet area : DARK WEB
2 The least bit : ONE IOTA
3 Show how : INSTRUCT
4 “Our __ is loss, our hope but sad despair”: “Henry VI, Part III” : HAP
5 Subject of Dante’s “La Vita Nuova” : AMORE
6 Weather __ : VANE
7 Gaelic tongue : ERSE
8 Plastic bag accessories : TIES
9 Hot spots’ hot spots? : OASES
10 Amazon threats : ANACONDAS
11 Mouse first voiced by Walt Disney : MINNIE
12 Namibia neighbor : ANGOLA
13 Prepped, as peels : ZESTED
14 Perfume compound : ESTER
23 Follower of Nanak : SIKH
25 Unreal : PSEUDO
27 Fed chair Powell : JEROME
28 Graphic intro? : IDEO-
29 “I’ll get back to you” : MAYBE
32 Vacationer’s need, maybe : PET SITTER
33 Good earth : LOAM
35 One may be heard on safari : ROAR
36 Get out of hand in a hurry : ESCALATE
38 Dresses : ATTIRES
39 Becomes more complicated : DEEPENS
40 Word on a Monopoly corner square : SALARY
41 Asset protection plan, briefly : PRENUP
42 Place to play : ARCADE
45 Branded wares, informally : MERCH
46 Spruce (up) : SPIFF
47 Triumphant : ON TOP
50 Wrinkled-nose cause : ODOR
51 Study intently, with “over” : PORE
52 “Picnic” Pulitzer Prize winner : INGE
56 NBA position : CTR
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