Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday July 18th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Wretched : ABJECT
7 Mount Rainier gateway : TACOMA
13 Hoops statistic : ASSIST
19 Taste : FLAVOR
20 In favor of Mideast unity : PAN-ARAB
21 Arty : CHICHI
22 The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __ : TAKEOUT OUTTAKE
24 Right after this : HEREON
25 Fall garden? : EDEN
26 Riverbank residue : SILT
27 Parisian season : ETE
28 Vote of support : AYE
29 What Jill has that Jack doesn’t? : DOT
30 Break : REST
31 Stab : TRY
32 1956 title film monster : RODAN
34 Smart : NATTY
36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __ : SLEEPOVER OVER SLEEP
41 LP’s 33 1/3 : RPM
44 Browsing annoyances : ADS
45 Wordless agreement : NOD
46 Sugary ending : -OSE
47 Reduce : PARE
48 Long : YEARN
50 Shot __: competitive event : PUT
51 Privileged people : ELITE
53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __ : ENDED UP UPENDED
57 False front : FACADE
63 Get into : DON
64 What a stationary orrery part may represent : SUN
65 Clarifying Latin words : ID EST
67 Grew dimmer : WANED
68 Sweetens, as yams : CANDIES
70 Iraqi currency : DINAR
72 Modified for the better : AMENDED
74 Private : INNER
75 Barely sufficient : SCANT
77 Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant : ACE
78 Surrealist German-French painter : ARP
79 Gazes fixedly : STARES
81 The casual quarterback made an __ : OFFHAND HANDOFF
86 Expand : ADD TO
88 Bossy utterance : MOO
89 African capital on the 30th parallel : CAIRO
90 “It is a __ told by an idiot”: Macbeth : TALE
94 What chatty tongues do? : WAG
95 Poke fun at : KID
96 Mrs., in Madrid : SRA
98 Apply a new hue to : DYE
99 A navel ring is a piercing one may __ : WEAR UNDER UNDERWEAR
105 It has pipes and keys : ORGAN
106 Source of some overhead footage : DRONE
107 Apple operating system : IOS
108 Hadrian’s defense : WALL
112 Follow (along) closely : TAG
113 “It totally happened!” : WAY
115 Memorable first name in soccer : MIA
116 Small racer : KART
117 Sailing : ASEA
118 Indicating stress : ITALIC
120 The fast-learning police cadet had the __ : PAT-DOWN DOWN PAT
123 Most trifling : MEREST
124 Fail to take seriously : SNEER AT
125 Red-skinned root : RADISH
126 Current events? : EDDIES
127 Soaked through : SODDEN
128 Demands and gets : EXACTS
DOWN
1 Following : AFTER
2 Business end of an ax : BLADE
3 “North and South” trilogy author John __ : JAKES
4 Track contests : EVENTS
5 Bill’s partner : COO
6 Confided in : TRUSTED
7 Showing strain : TAUT
8 One lining up for food? : ANT
9 Took care of the food : CATERED
10 Strong speaker : ORATOR
11 Be resourceful : MAKE DO
12 Prez on a penny : ABE
13 Feeling it after a workout : ACHY
14 Lusters : SHEENS
15 Honorary title : SIR
16 Picnic pitcherful : ICED TEA
17 NBA’s Steph Curry, frequently : SHOOTER
18 Early photograph : TINTYPE
20 Sea anemone, e.g. : POLYP
23 Gives out : TIRES
28 “__ of robins …”: Kilmer : A NEST
33 Refrains from : AVOIDS
35 The Eiger, for one : ALP
37 Secure, as a job or a role : LAND
38 “Get __”: James Brown biopic : ON UP
39 Choose at the polls : VOTE
40 Shipping hazard : REEF
41 Bread-making grain : RYE
42 Locket, for one : PENDANT
43 Singer/actress known as the “Queen of Pop” : MADONNA
49 Cause to become : RENDER
50 Mae West’s “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted,” e.g. : PUN
51 Icelandic literary work : EDDA
52 Sidelong glance : LEER
54 Consume : USE
55 Kitty : PUSS
56 Beethoven’s __ : NINTH
58 Response to the sublime : AWE
59 Largest English-speaking country : CANADA
60 Google operating system : ANDROID
61 Cook, as much county fair fare : DEEP-FRY
62 Announcer Hall : EDD
66 Gauge on the dash : TACH
68 Opposite of trans : CIS
69 Hot temper : IRE
70 Inane : DAFT
71 Lowdown : INFO
73 “Give __ minute” : ME A
76 Often “old” eccentric : CODGER
77 Big deal : ADO
80 Like fireplace logs : SAWN
82 Within : AMID
83 Plant stem joint : NODE
84 Final Four org. : NCAA
85 Moriarty, to Holmes : FOE
87 __ longlegs : DADDY
90 Cheat on one’s sweet, say : TWO-TIME
91 Freshened up, in a way : AERATED
92 Slowpoke : LAGGARD
93 Often titled stretch : ERA
95 Massaged : KNEADED
96 Excalibur, e.g. : SWORD
97 Put back as it was : RESTORE
100 Not sensible : UNWISE
101 Pecorino __ cheese : ROMANO
102 __ Kingdom : UNITED
103 Laughing : RIANT
104 Its capital is Kigali : RWANDA
109 Gelatin garnish : ASPIC
110 “Not in the __” : LEAST
111 Framework strips : LATHS
114 Book after John : ACTS
116 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle : KWAN
119 Gift with an aloha : LEI
120 Brief afterthoughts : PSS
121 Metal source : ORE
122 Become more intense, as the moon : WAX
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