Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday July 18th 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Early finisher’s luxury TIME TO SPARE
12 Word heard before a hike HUT
15 Paper Mate introduced one in 1979 ERASABLE PEN
16 Hearth debris ASH
17 Mock question of literacy CAN’T YOU READ?
18 Poe’s __ Morgue RUE
19 Casual greeting HEY
20 Struggle with one’s sins? LISP
21 Vicuña cousins LLAMAS
23 __ pit MOSH
24 Trap PIEHOLE
25 Set out DEPART
28 Relay PASS ON
29 Some memory triggers ODORS
30 Polite gesture from Alice CURTSYING
33 Malicious gossip DIRT
34 Actions to avoid DON’TS
35 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting MOOR
36 Trial results DECISIONS
38 “Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone”: comedy podcast PAULA
39 Not on the ball UNWARY
40 Spacely Space Sprockets employee JETSON
41 Some pending cases APPEALS
43 French bean? TETE
44 Twist in pain WRITHE
45 Play the sycophant to, with “over” FAWN
46 Ms. Pac-Man ghost SUE
49 Hedonist’s goal FUN
50 Boss’s unsettling request I’D LIKE A WORD
53 A, to Amélie UNE
54 Barcelona star LIONEL MESSI
55 “__ Miz” LES
56 Thurible go-with INCENSE BOAT
DOWN
1 Modern fixer TECH
2 Hymn singer’s wrath? IRAE
3 Loads MANY
4 Part of i.e. EST
5 Musical family including James and Livingston TAYLORS
6 One behind a violist, maybe OBOIST
7 Wintry nuisance SLUSH
8 BOLO target PERP
9 Clint’s Clyde, in a 1978 movie APE
10 Dreamers’ opposites REALISTS
11 Circular, in a way ENDLESS
12 Like Pentatonix numbers HARMONIOUS
13 Expected USUAL
14 What we have here THESE
22 Sailor’s shout AHOY, MATE!
23 Strict disciplinarian MARTINET
24 Play things PARTS
25 __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill DODD
26 Singer Brickell EDIE
27 Natural-born quillers? PORCUPINES
28 Like Nash poetry PUNNY
30 Brewery in Golden, Colorado COORS
31 Short court plea NOLO
32 Pop’s ma GRAN
34 Focused DIALED IN
37 One of Kenya’s official languages SWAHILI
38 Honey or sugar PET NAME
40 The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink JEWELS
41 Not good at all AWFUL
42 Cut back PRUNE
43 Occupied TAKEN
45 Okay FINE
46 Just okay SO-SO
47 Space bear URSA
48 Change the narrative? EDIT
51 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper Tone __ LOC
52 Pathological liar’s creation WEB
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