Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday December 26th 2019, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 [This is so frustrating!] ARGH
5 Ceiling LIMIT
10 Mail often diverted to a separate folder SPAM
14 Sainted pope called “the Great” LEO I
15 Modern Persian IRANI
16 Celestial bear URSA
17 Mosque bigwig IMAM
18 Daring move BOLD STROKE
20 Barnyard mom SOW
21 Bath-loving Muppet ERNIE
22 Priest’s robe ALB
23 KITT on “Knight Rider” TRANS AM
25 Hanging Gardens site BABYLON
29 “You can tell me” SAY IT
30 Inhabitants of a myrmecologist’s farm ANTS
32 Big time ERA
33 Thompson of “Thor: Ragnarok” TESSA
35 Getty and Rockefeller OILMEN
38 Street moves since the ’70s … and what the black squares on rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do BREAK-DANCES
40 Unfolds BLOOMS
42 Pertaining to the small intestine ILEAC
43 Chest bone RIB
44 Fling HURL
46 Hardship RIGOR
50 Judicial self-disqualification RECUSAL
53 Zoe of “Avatar” SALDANA
55 Genetics lab material RNA
56 Ragged TATTY
58 Floral garland LEI
59 Three-flavor block NEAPOLITAN
62 Mount Olympus group GODS
63 “You Needed Me” singer Murray ANNE
64 REO Speedwagon guitarist Dave AMATO
65 One is often hard to resist URGE
66 Site in a Steinbeck title EDEN
67 Network points NODES
68 Financial aid criterion NEED
DOWN
1 Top celebrity groupings A-LISTS
2 Ride-hitching fish REMORA
3 “Scram!” GO AWAY
4 Word for a guy HIM
5 Scales aloft LIBRA
6 Facial apparatus in a Dumas novel IRON MASK
7 Neighbor of Mauritania MALI
8 Behind on bills IN DEBT
9 Poetic contraction ‘TIS
10 Like a sourpuss SURLY
11 Math test parts PROBLEMS
12 Inquire or require ASK
13 Novelist Rita __ Brown MAE
19 File folder feature TAB
21 Prize ESTEEM
24 Explosion maker, briefly NITRO
26 Not separately AS ONE
27 Mine find ORE
28 A Bobbsey twin NAN
31 Rock bottom NADIR
34 “Rizzoli & Isles” actress Alexander SASHA
36 Nickelodeon sitcom starring Miranda Cosgrove ICARLY
37 Massenet opera about a Spanish hero LE CID
38 “Hogan’s Heroes” star BOB CRANE
39 Auto insurance giant ALLSTATE
40 Cold call? BRR
41 Fabrication LIE
45 In the prior month ULTIMO
47 In great numbers GALORE
48 Stressed out ON EDGE
49 Elevated RAISED
51 Let loose, as hogs UNPEN
52 __ Tomé and Príncipe SAO
54 Chem. class data AT NOS
57 Not very much A TAD
59 Rob Roy’s refusal NAE
60 Boundary END
61 PC-to-PC hookup LAN
62 Rev GUN
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