L.A. Times Daily - Mar 27 2016 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answer

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Mar 27 2016 Sunday

Clues	Answers
__ Fail: Irish coronation stone	LIA
__ garden	ZEN
__ instinct	GUT
__ peace	INNER
__, mean, fightin' machine!: John Candy in "Stripes"	A LEAN
1986 Starship chart-topper	SARA
1994 film set on a bus	SPEED
43,560 square feet	ACRE
6, on a phone	MNO
Absolutely no one	NOT A SOUL
Adored speaker	BOSE
Advanced math deg., in Canada	MSC
Aldi supermarket juice brand that translates to "river of gold"	RIO DORO
Apprehensive of	FEARING
Art opening?	POP
Astronomer Celsius	ANDERS
Author Rand	AYN
Award-winning courtroom drama	LA LAW
Bad avian omen in much mythology	CROW
Bagel topper	LOX
Bard's "always"	EER
Be on a role?	ACT
Be tearfully grateful about comfy shoes?	CRY ON THE CROCS (C + rye, on the rocks)
Bone: Pref.	OSTE
Brazil map word	SAO
Breakfast morsel	OAT
Brokeback Mountain actor	QUAID
Cabinet dept.	AGR
Cagey	SLY
Carbohydrate ending -OSE	OSE
Carrier with a Shanghai hub	AIR CHINA
C'est magnifique!	OOH LA LA!
Chesapeake Bay feeder	POTOMAC
Civil War prez	ABE
Confine, as on a farm	PEN IN
Co-star of "Suspect" (1987)	CHER
Defense secretary before Panetta	GATES
Digitally endorsed	E-SIGNED
Dinosaur Train watcher	TOT
Dip ingredients	ONIONS
Discharge	CAN
Double without a seatbelt?	UNSECURED CLONE (C + unsecured loan)
Dyes used for blue jeans	INDIGOS
Earth pigment	SIENNA
Edges	RIMS
Elevator innovator	OTIS
Exclusive editing websites?	WIKI CLIQUES (C + WikiLeaks)
Fads	MANIAS
Fairy tale opener	ONCE
Film monster at a construction site?	CRANE OF TERROR (C + Reign of Terror)
Fingered	IDED
Fizzy prefix	AER
Former "Daily Show" correspondent Samantha	BEE
Franklin writings	ESSAYS
French pen name	BIC
Game with a rope	CLUE
Garden center bulk purchase?	CASE OF SPADES (C + ace of spades)
Gerard Trenite poem about eccentricities of English pronunciation	THE CHAOS
Ghost psychic __ Mae Brown	ODA
Go before	PRECEDE
Govt. intel org.	NSA
Greek vowel	ETA
Groups of bats or beavers	COLONY
Hamlet's friend	HORATIO
Handbill	FLYER
Historic metropolitan district	OLD TOWN
Hold up	ROB
Home of Humayun's Tomb	DELHI
iCal entry	APPT
Interfere	MEDDLE
Iraqi port	BASRA
Jamie reader	FOODIE
Junk food, in ads	SNAX
Just	ONLY
Kitchen top	LID
Large furniture chain	ASHLEY
Looks up to	ADMIRES
Machine shop tool	SHAPER
Maker of Cage golf shoes	ECCO
Marx feature?	CRAZED EYEBROWS (C + raised eyebrows)
Matching tops worn together	TWINSET
Miss piggy?	SOW
Most Grinch-like	MEANEST
Most stable	SANEST
Munich lament	ACH
NFL stat	YDS
Nook downloads	E-BOOKS
Northernmost freshwater fish	ARCTIC CHAR
Not dressy	CASUAL
Obi-Wan's attire	ROBE
Observed, maybe	SAT IN
Off the beaten path	AFIELD
Ones having a bite	EATERS
Org. for marksmen	NRA
Part of PST: Abbr.	STD
Peak	ACME
Peat moss heist?	NURSERY CRIME (C + nursery rhyme)
Perched upon __ of Pallas: "The Raven"	A BUST
Plane staff	CREW
Prefix with port	HELI
Prying	NOSY
Puts in rollers	SETS
Qatar locale	NEAR EAST
Quantities like mass and volume	SCALARS
Real love __ me through: Steve Winwood lyric	TO PULL
Reason to call the landlord	NO HEAT
Recipe words	A DASH
Research	GO INTO
Return of the Jedi dancer	OOLA
Riot squad spray	MACE
Sailor	TAR
Schmoozers	HOBNOBBERS
Sgts. and cpls.	NCOS
Slow movement	ADAGIO
Smooch from Sofía	BESO
Something in the air	NITROGEN
Spanish eye	OJO
Spew out	EGEST
Sticks often with curved tops	CANES
Subject for Dumbledore	ALCHEMY
Subtlety	NUANCE
Summer mo.	JUL
Tax audit needs: Abbr.	RCPTS
Telethon commitments	PLEDGES
They were introduced to Western pop music during the British Invasion	SITARS
Ticked	SORE
Time, e.g., briefly	MAG
Title of honor	SIR
Tofu source	SOYA
Transform, in sci-fi	MORPH
Tree in a tray	BONSAI
Trumpet sound	WA-WA
Type of engine or oil	TWO-CYCLE
UMass's conference	A-TEN
Unrestricted ruler	DESPOT
Update the machinery	RETOOL
Ursa Minor star	POLARIS
Vietnam's last emperor Bao __	DAI
Well, __-di-dah!	LAH
What "comes but once in a lifetime": Longfellow	YOUTH
WWII German minesweeper	R BOAT
Yet again	ANEW