L.A. Times Daily – May 21 2022 Crossword Solutions
Clues | Answers |
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‘I don’t mind __ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels’: Nash | EELS |
‘Mine! Mine! Mine!’ criers in ‘Finding Nemo’ | GULLS |
‘Toodles!’ | TATA |
‘Wrong hand, silly’ | YOUROTHERRIGHT |
Academic term | SCHOOLYEAR |
Active front? | RETRO |
Actress Thurman | UMA |
Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings | DINGO |
Bag | SNARE |
Bags | TRAPS |
Brandon __: Hilary Swank’s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ role | TEENA |
Breeding grounds | HOTBEDS |
Clipped | TERSE |
Derived from gold | AURIC |
Dessert with a high point | SOFTSERVE |
Device that requires spin control | LATHE |
Earthenware vessel | CROCK |
Eyelid issue | STYE |
Fox holes | DENS |
Get set | PREP |
Grace period? | AMEN |
GRE org | ETS |
Heterogenous union | ALLOY |
Inoculation fluids | SERA |
Instruments in some Gershwin works | ALTOSAXES |
Joie de vivre | ELAN |
Lacks options | HASGOTTO |
Latin law | LEX |
Leaves in a pot | TEA |
Like a fly ball to the warning track | DEEP |
Line on a handwriting test | NEATNESSCOUNTS |
Literary alter ego | HYDE |
Make dough or bread | EARN |
Many times o’er | OFT |
Clues | Answers |
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Nice parent | MERE |
Not well-done in the least | EXTRARARE |
One having a cow? | MEATEATER |
One of two tarot card groups | ARCANA |
One working with a dictator | STENO |
Pair sharing a <3 necklace, probably | BFFS |
Perfectly | TOATURN |
Place to get high and pass out? | TOPBUNK |
Poetic contraction | TWERE |
Polished | SUAVE |
Postulant | NOVICE |
Role, metaphorically | HAT |
Rose up on stage | AXL |
Rowing implement? | HOE |
Rx writers, often | DRS |
Safari runners | MACS |
Self-consoling sigh | ITRIED |
Small pouches | SACS |
Son of Hera | ARES |
Sources of fleeting joy? | YACHTS |
State whose road signs feature 8-Downs | UTAH |
Study aid | FLASHCARD |
Support that’s often rigged | MAST |
Susan who wrote, ‘The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth’ | SONTAG |
Sweet | HONEYED |
Symbol of 53-Across | BEEHIVE |
Tabula rasa | CLEANSLATE |
Three-part fig | SSN |
Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black Panther’s suits | NANOBOTS |
Tours of duty | HITCHES |
Tree on the Lebanese flag | CEDAR |
Was awash in euphoria | FELTGIDDY |
Went viral | BLEWUP |
Wiped out | ALLIN |