Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday, December 2nd 2015, LA Times Crossword puzzle.
Across
1. “Mamma Mia!” group ABBA
5. Tunes SONGS
10. Fundamentals ABCS
14. Talking iPhone feature SIRI
15. Destroyer destroyer U-BOAT
16. Messy stuff GLOP
17. __ smasher ATOM
18. “I’m innocent!” NOT ME!
19. Hindu deity RAMA
20. High-speed war plane maneuver POWER DIVE
22. Hunter’s device DECOY
23. Gets close to NEARS
24. Cheat, in a way PEEK
25. Seasonal malady FLU
27. Find work GET A JOB
30. Shakespearean fairy queen MAB
33. Large-leafed tree LINDEN
35. Batman portrayer Kilmer VAL
36. Skating commentator Lipinski TARA
37. Passionate AVID
38. Dishes for company CHINA
40. Eagerly excited AGOG
41. Golfer Ballesteros SEVE
42. Furrow maker HOE
43. Ruling period REGIME
45. Charlemagne’s realm: Abbr. HRE
46. Avant-garde NEW-WAVE
48. Low or no follower -CAL
49. Insert for a 6-Down REED
51. Shoot well under par, in golf lingo GO LOW
53. Syria’s Bashar al-__ ASSAD
55. Focuses even harder … and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues BEARS DOWN
59. Letters after phis CHIS
60. “The Planets” composer HOLST
61. Texter’s “If you ask me” IMHO
62. Adorable CUTE
63. Wipe off ERASE
64. Dismissed, with “off” LAID
65. “Until next time,” in texts TTYL
66. Oscar’s roommate FELIX
67. Tolkien’s Treebeard et al. ENTS
Down
1. PDQ ASAP
2. __-Honey BIT-O
3. *Rhode Island school BROWN UNIVERSITY (giving “BROWN BEAR”)
4. Pop singer Mann AIMEE
5. *Like Southern California beaches SUN-DRENCHED
6. Duck player in “Peter and the Wolf” OBOIST
7. Punishment with a grounding NO TV
8. Risk, e.g. GAME
9. Canonized Mlle. STE
10. Feel the same way AGREE
11. *Title female “trying to make a devil out of me,” in a Santana hit BLACK MAGIC WOMAN (giving “BLACK BEAR”)
12. “¿__ está?” COMO
13. Fix, as a pet SPAY
21. Blow one’s top RAGE
22. Cotillion honoree DEB
24. *One of two cold atmospheric cyclones POLAR VORTEX (giving “POLAR BEAR”)
25. Jiffy FLASH
26. Iron-rich meat LIVER
28. Miller’s “__ From the Bridge” A VIEW
29. First calendar pg. JAN
31. Food court attraction AROMA
32. Something to pick lox for BAGEL
34. ’50s political monogram DDE
36. Label TAG
39. “__ so?” HOW
44. Fish caught in pots EELS
46. Author Buntline NED
47. Tennis great Andre AGASSI
50. Studio piece EASEL
52. “Swan Lake” swan ODILE
53. Customer holding: Abbr. ACCT
54. Closed SHUT
55. Produced, as fruit BORE
56. Tel Aviv airline EL AL
57. Smidgen WHIT
58. Quiet yeses NODS
60. Celeb with a mansion HEF
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