Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday September 15th 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 *Dough (and start of a word ladder) : BREAD
6 “__ it ain’t so!” : SAY
9 Pop’s bros : UNCS
13 Insurance giant : AETNA
14 Paul Bunyan tool : AXE
15 *Bit of luck : BREAK
16 *Dismal : BLEAK
17 Itinerary word : VIA
18 Poetic feet : IAMBI
19 __ Lingus : AER
20 Horse-and-buggy sect : AMISH
22 *Sheepish remark? : BLEAT
23 Interoffice PC connection : LAN
24 Carnival city : RIO
25 “You bet!” : YES
27 “Seats all taken” sign : SRO
28 Abbr. on a B-52 : USAF
30 Not nice at all : CRUEL
32 Hillside home asset : VIEW
33 Author Wiesel : ELIE
35 Blood work and such : LAB TESTS
37 Apt description of the sequence suggested by the answers to starred clues? : FOOD CHAIN
40 Partygoer, say : ATTENDEE
43 Target’s target, say : LOGO
46 Some August babies : LEOS
47 Third of eight : EARTH
50 Intertwine : MESH
52 Under the weather : ILL
53 Also say : ADD
54 What a suspect tries to beat, with “the” : RAP
56 “That’s more than I need to know” : TMI
57 *Made holy : BLEST
59 Musical set in Argentina : EVITA
61 Family guy : SON
62 “Me too!” : AS DO I
63 Bigwig : VIP
64 *Fabulous time : BLAST
66 *Dispense with modesty : BOAST
67 Uncommon sense : ESP
68 Justice Sotomayor : SONIA
69 A.D. part : ANNO
70 Vote against : NAY
71 *Doomed, slangily (and end of the ladder) : TOAST
DOWN
1 Ricky’s signature song on “I Love Lucy” : BABALU
2 Word after news or press : RELEASE
3 Everlasting : ETERNAL
4 Santa __ winds : ANA
5 Senegal’s capital : DAKAR
6 Rescuer : SAVIOR
7 x or y, on graphs : AXIS
8 “Sure, sure” : YEAH YEAH
9 Eurasian border river : URAL
10 Usually successful opponent : NEMESIS
11 Musical set at the Kit Kat Klub : CABARET
12 Winter lifts : SKI TOWS
15 Tots’ spill catchers : BIBS
21 Karaoke singer’s tool : MIC
26 Isle of Napoleon’s exile : ELBA
29 Piccolo relatives : FIFES
31 Gastric woe : ULCER
32 Cobra’s weapon : VENOM
34 Long, long time : EON
36 “Open __ 9 p.m.”: store sign : TIL
38 Pigged out (on), briefly : ODED
39 All square : DEAD EVEN
40 Storied cave opener : ALI BABA
41 Exposes : TELLS ON
42 Holy city resident? : TOLEDAN
44 Nails the test : GETS AN A
45 Absorption process : OSMOSIS
48 Psychedelic : TRIPPY
49 Fez or fedora : HAT
51 Suggest : HINT AT
53 Go __: fight : AT IT
55 Brewery that co-distributes Not Your Father’s Root Beer : PABST
58 Just passable : SO-SO
60 Mastercard rival : VISA
65 WC : LOO
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