Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday May 8th 2024, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Day on Mars : SOL
4 Crunched numbers : DATA
8 Shockingly vivid : LURID
13 Clean water org. : EPA
14 Inner selves : EGOS
15 Wretchedness : MISERY
16 Region of severe drought in the 1930s : DUST BOWL
18 Structures that provide shade : GAZEBOS
19 At the ready : ALERT
20 Massive : EPIC
22 Craigslist abbr. : OBO
23 Actress Polo : TERI
24 Diner, e.g. : GREASY SPOON
28 Head physician, briefly? : ENT
29 Feeds the pigs : SLOPS
30 Light units : WATTS
31 Assume, as a responsibility : TAKE ON
33 Bank vaults : SAFES
36 Rochester, New York, dish with meat, fries, and baked beans : GARBAGE PLATE
39 Question type : YES/NO
40 SoFi Stadium pros : LA RAMS
42 Actor Hawke : ETHAN
45 Runs up against? : ABUTS
47 Light touch : PAT
49 Hazard for bare feet in a beach parking lot : BROKEN GLASS
52 Cooked up : MADE
53 Bluff, maybe : BET
54 Force from power : OUST
55 Gives for a while : LENDS
56 “Doesn’t look good for me!” : I’M TOAST
59 Army dining area, or a punny description of where to find 16-, 24-, 36-, and 49-Across : MESS HALL
62 Apt name for someone born on Christmas : NOELLE
63 Operatic solo : ARIA
64 Narc’s org. : DEA
65 Class : GRADE
66 Subsequently : NEXT
67 Mule kin : ASS
DOWN
1 Hardly rowdy : SEDATE
2 Richly appointed : OPULENT
3 Activity that involves taking a shot in the dark? : LASER TAG
4 Subject of a congressional ceiling : DEBT
5 Previously : AGO
6 Pull along : TOW
7 Like a limb that’s all pins and needles : ASLEEP
8 “30 Rock” role for Tina : LIZ
9 Employ : USE
10 Start up again : REBOOT
11 Asimov work with “Three Laws” : I, ROBOT
12 Vacuums that have “dual cyclone” technology : DYSONS
15 “I Try” singer Gray : MACY
17 Prefix with -athlon : TRI-
18 Beneficiaries of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, for short : GIS
21 Out of style : PASSE
24 Gooey lumps : GLOBS
25 Journalist Farrow : RONAN
26 Pinky promises : SWEARS
27 Carb-loader’s pre-race meal : PASTA
29 Like the vibes at a spa : SERENE
32 Style of boat first used by the Aleut, Inuit, and Yupik peoples : KAYAK
34 Overachiever’s test score : A-PLUS
35 Shoes that lack heels : FLATS
37 Aspirational hashtag : GOALS
38 Savory turnover : EMPANADA
41 Seats for equestrians : SADDLES
42 Receding : EBBING
43 Earthquake : TREMOR
44 Sore throat soother : HOT TEA
46 The Caped Crusader : BATMAN
48 Cars that charge slowly in the cold : TESLAS
50 Honker : NOSE
51 Word before microbiome : GUT
52 “It’s fine” : MEH
55 DA-to-be’s exam : LSAT
57 Long in the tooth : OLD
58 Tap pour : ALE
60 Before, poetically : ERE
61 __-pack abs : SIX
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