Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday September 17th 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Studio department CASTING
8 Fills with mortar, as tile GROUTS
14 Invite ASK OVER
15 Traditional slow cooker BEAN POT
16 1963 Best Actor POITIER
17 ’70s-’80s sitcom roommate LAVERNE
18 ”By all means!” INDEED!
19 Central California county MARIPOSA
20 Contract details TERMS
21 Slips on DONS
22 Put down LAID
23 Latin I word AMO
24 Pen output OINK!
25 __ warning EARLY
26 Formulation in Newton’s “Principia” LAW OF GRAVITY
30 Jokingly IN SPORT
31 ”Coming Out of the Dark” singer ESTEFAN
35 Height is an exception to it I BEFORE E RULE
37 Stylish beach resorts LIDOS
40 Sanctuary part APSE
41 Eponymous 2001 album JLO
42 MBA subject ECON
43 Part of a name on the 1989 album “Dr. Feelgood” CRUE
44 Congo jungle denizen CHIMP
46 Sprint and others TELECOMS
48 Ice cream baron William DREYER
49 NSA home FT MEADE
50 ”You had your chance!” TOO LATE!
51 Certain permit holder LEARNER
52 Pitching pro? AD WOMAN
53 Mahmoud’s PLO predecessor YASSER
54 Lose freshness GO STALE
DOWN
1 First person indicator CAPITAL I
2 Without dissent AS ONE MAN
3 Rundown areas SKID ROWS
4 Revered emblem TOTEM
5 Brown is one of them IVIES
6 Triage basis NEED
7 Lab warning GRR!
8 First, second and third GEARS
9 Norah’s dad RAVI
10 Like solitaire ONE-PLAYER
11 Hue and cry UPROAR
12 Uvula neighbor TONSIL
13 Regular STEADY
15 ”Paradise Lost” style BLANK VERSE
19 Bart Simpson’s grandma MONA
21 One whose business is growing DIRT FARMER
24 No gentle giant OGRE
25 Novel ending -ETTE
27 First book of the Great Plains trilogy O, PIONEERS!
28 Key chain attachments FOBS
29 ”Say no more” I SEE
32 Roller coaster named for a mountain FUJIYAMA
33 Like some storage shelves ALL-METAL
34 Wetsuit material NEOPRENE
36 Sonata, e.g. OPUS
37 Heave LET FLY
38 Summer beverage ICE TEA
39 Middle Eastern stuffed vegetable dishes DOLMAS
43 Software whiz CODER
44 They’re often involved in murders CROWS
45 Serf of Sparta HELOT
47 Mr. Peanut trademark CANE
48 Doofus DODO
50 Touch and go? TAG
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