Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday November 18th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Apply softly : DAB
4 Indy 500 leader : PACE CAR
11 About 40 gallons of it makes a gallon of syrup usually : SAP
14 GPS calculation : ETA
15 Mollusk with a nacreous shell : ABALONE
16 Gp. for moms and dads : PTA
17 Particles from far, far away : COSMIC RADIATION
20 Burger topping : ONION
21 23andMe subject : DNA
22 Lena Dunham TV show : GIRLS
23 Dog topping : RELISH
25 To wit : NAMELY
26 Wind-driven clouds : SCUD
28 Hereditary unit : GENE
29 Riddle end, maybe : WHAT AM I?
32 2001 NBA MVP Allen : IVERSON
36 Goal : AIM
37 Student, ideally : LEARNER
39 Runner Down Under : EMU
40 Zoom alternative : SKYPE
42 Race part : LEG
43 Over : AGAIN
45 Brazilian soccer great : PELE
46 Responds to a phone solicitation, perhaps : GIVES
48 Improvs, e.g. : ACTS
49 Eye-bending genre : OP ART
51 Fiennes of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” : RALPH
53 Drops off before midday? : DEW
55 Easy throw : LOB
56 “Later” : BYE
57 Words With Friends, for one : APP
60 Post-teaching title for some : EMERITA
62 Latvia neighbor : ESTONIA
64 Fluorescent element? : SILENT C
65 Like many a wedding planner : ENGAGED
66 “It’s just a flesh wound” : I’LL BE OK
67 Repair crew with tiles : ROOFERS
DOWN
1 Interior designer’s specialty : DECOR
2 Make reparations : ATONE
3 Margherita pizza herb : BASIL
4 It tops out at ten in a doctor’s office : PAIN SCALE
5 “Mixed-ish” airer : ABC
6 Calling or playing follower : CARD
7 Stylish vigor : ELAN
8 Musical symbol resembling a set of crosshairs : CODA
9 Young Darth : ANI
10 When the Cold War ended : REAGAN ERA
11 Pinnacle of religion? : SPIRE
12 Coral island : ATOLL
13 Violet hybrid : PANSY
18 Like eyes starting to tear up : MOIST
19 Dingy kitchen item? : TIMER
24 “A Treatise of Human Nature” author : HUME
25 Campbell of “Scream” films : NEVE
27 Ease up : DIAL IT BACK
28 Spiced brew : GINGER BEER
29 Paper-nest builder : WASP
30 Backpack, e.g. : HIKE
31 1926 Pulitzer-winning poet : AMY LOWELL
33 Dramatic shift … or what’s literally found in each set of circles? : SEA CHANGE
34 Neglect to mention : OMIT
35 Sisters in the 2017 film “The Little Hours” : NUNS
38 Excite, with “up” : REV
41 Exuberance : PEP
44 Gender __ : GAP
46 Underground recess : GROTTO
47 Declines : SAYS NO
50 Flared dress style : A-LINE
52 Released : LET GO
53 Arnaz of early TV : DESI
54 Painter Nolde : EMIL
58 Place to drop a line : PIER
59 Paw parts : PADS
61 1860s gray : REB
63 Klutz : OAF
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