Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday December 20th 2018, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1. Goes out EBBS
5. Car ad fig. MSRP
9. Poppy extract OPIUM
14. Stretched to the max TAUT
15. Cambodian cash RIEL
16. Italian grandma NONNA
17. West Coast gas acronym ARCO
18. Violation of trust INFIDELITY
20. Kipling’s Rikki-__-Tavi TIKKI
22. __ Dane GREAT
23. Familia member TIA
24. Really get to NETTLE
26. Beeps and peeps NOISES
28. Fluffy neckwear BOA
30. Acts charitably DOES GOOD
32. Ararat lander ARK
33. “__ be married, / My grave is like to be my wedding bed”: Juliet IF HE
34. Potentially offensive, briefly NOT PC
38. Bumbling one BEE
39. MDX ÷ X… CLI
40. Unlock, in verse OPE
42. Bit of soccer support OLE
43. Feature of some Gene Autry songs YODEL
45. Pasternak heroine LARA
47. “An everyday spud is a commentator,” e.g. PUN
48. Super Soaker, e.g. WATER GUN
51. It starts in Mar. DST
52. Distressed damsel’s cry SAVE ME
55. Do business with SELL TO
57. Takeout menu general TSO
58. Moisten BEDEW
60. Tops off FILLS
63. Too high for people to catch? ULTRASONIC
66. Meh BLAH
67. Jacobi of “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) DEREK
68. UNC Chapel __ HILL
69. Shakespearean schemer IAGO
70. Nobel, for one SWEDE
71. Rights org. ACLU
72. 1990s-2010s slugging nickname A-ROD
DOWN
1. Californie or Floride ETAT
2. Italian port BARI
3. Uncovered, in a way BUCK-NAKED
4. Stir up STOKE
5. Hosp. test MRI
6. Grade-school formation SINGLE FILE
7. Browser button with a curved arrow icon REFRESH
8. Move in a tutu PLIE
9. Personal, as a talk ONE-TO-ONE
10. Party pro POL
11. Monogram ltrs. INITS
12. Loosen, as laces UNTIE
13. Uxmal inhabitants MAYAS
19. Five-O nickname DANO
21. “__ be an honor!” IT’D
25. Work up a sweat TOIL
27. Altar words I DO
28. Treat with supreme care BABY
29. McFlurry flavor OREO
31. Political commentator who wrote “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” GEORGE WILL
35. Highest price, and what five Down answers have TOP DOLLAR
36. + PLUS
37. Lowest price CENT
39. Beach cookout CLAMBAKE
41. Songwriter with John PAUL
44. Girl in a pasture EWE
46. Poison in some whodunits ARSENIC
49. Tight ends? TEES
50. Viet Cong org. NLF
52. Small earrings STUDS
53. Heaps A SLEW
54. “À __ santé!” VOTRE
56. Calf neighbor TIBIA
59. Persian Gulf capital DOHA
61. Mar-a-__: Florida estate LAGO
62. Flip-flopped? SHOD
64. Rosy RED
65. Gulager of “The Virginian” CLU
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