L.A. Times Daily - July 2 2017 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jul 2 2017 Sunday

Clue	Solution
Back biter?	MOLAR
They’re rarely good dance partners	OAFS
Worry word	ALAS
Nut under a tree	ACORN
Sherlock’s adversary Adler	IRENE
Zero-star meal	SLOP
Hard finish?	WARE
Big fight	MELEE
Words on the street?	SLANG
Big Island port	HILO
Spanish pronoun	ESTA
Window treatment	BLIND
Cargo unit	TON
Lennon classic covered by Pentatonix	IMAGINE
Like some riots	HILARIOUS
Absurd	INSANE
Aborted operation	NOGO
Something to learn	LESSON
Willamette University home	SALEM
"Enigma Variations" composer	ELGAR
Scary biter	TSETSE
Coral Sea sight	ATOLL
More hard-up	NEEDIER
Square dance milieu	HOEDOWN
Turn	GOBAD
NBC weekend staple	SNL
Ancient German	TEUTON
Fuming	IRED
Polishes, as prose	EMENDS
Support source	TECH
Job listing ltrs.	EEO
Bacon and eggs, say	FOODS
Puts in order	NEATENS
Police protector	VEST
Woodworking supply	STAIN
Workable wood	ASH
Firmly affixed	NAILED
State with confidence	ASSERT
Span. title	SRA
Hastings hearth	INGLE
Deserve	EARN
Tells	RELATES
Hostile force	ENEMY
Cartesian conclusion	IAM
Volvo competitor	SAAB
Freshen	AIROUT
Sitarist Shankar	RAVI
Like hiss or boom	ECHOIC
Snappy dresser	FOP
Scandinavian capital	KRONE
Fictional wolf’s disguise	GRANDMA
Employ to excess	OVERUSE
Fisherman with pots	EELER
Algonquian chief	SACHEM
Govt. issue	TNOTE
Arabian peninsula capital	SANAA
Infatuate	ENAMOR
Intestine sections	ILEA
Plumed birds	EGRETS
Dr. Brown’s classic	CREAMSODA
Ivy in Ithaca	CORNELL
Seek office	RUN
Baby bug	LARVA
Wedding reception eye-catcher	CAKE
Worked up	AGOG
Spender of rials	OMANI
French 101 infinitive	AIMER
"Power Hits" series record label	KTEL
Went off the deep end	DOVE
Picked a ticket, perhaps	VOTED
Board	PLANK
Lowly worker	SERF
Christmas symbol	STAR
Lyrical poetic form	EPODE
Peruvian volcano El __	MISTI
Wrinkle-resistant fiber	ORLON
Cants	LEANS
"Barbara __": Beach Boys hit	ANN
British actor who played Algy Longworth in 1930s Bulldog Drummond movies	REGINALDDENNY
DOL watchdog	OSHA
Garage job	ALIGNMENT
Book sheet	FOLIO
Freeloaded	SPONGED
Stupefied state	AWE
Western actor who taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip	LASHLARUE
More pretentious	ARTIER
Waterproofs, perhaps	SEALS
Cynical Bierce who defined "sweater" as "Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly"	AMBROSE
"Titanic" theme vocalist	CELINEDION
Broad assortment	OLIO
Bausch Lomb brand	RENU
Rorem and Beatty	NEDS
Qantas hub letters	MEL
Tertiary Period stones	EOLITHS
__ Martin: Bond’s car	ASTON
Like italics	ASLANT
Middle of dinner?	ENS
Turn right	GEE
Capa attacker	TORO
Scand. land	SWED
Circle’s lack	ENDS
Gemini rocket stage	AGENA
Some library volumes	TOMES
Caribbean sorcery	OBEAH
Sorbonne student	ELEVE
Nocturnal tree dweller	HOOTER
Trueheart of the comics	TESS
Problem with a line	SNAG
Turn over	CEDE
Was perfectly tailored	FITLIKEAGLOVE
Glass component	SILICA
Ancient home of Irish kings	TARA
Academic specialty	AREA
Sister of Rachel	LEAH
A lot more than a little mistake	SNAFU
It may have a swivel top	STOOL
Get together with old classmates, say	REUNE
China __: showy bloom	ASTER
Memorable line from Berlin’s "Cheek to Cheek"	IMINHEAVEN
Religious recluse	ASCETIC
Unpaid bill	ARREAR
Energy bits	ERGS
Ancient Japanese capital	NARA
Brush fire op	EVAC
Third James Bond novel	MOONRAKER
Samba relative	BOSSANOVA
Filmdom’s Thompson and Watson	EMMAS
1961 Literature Nobelist Andric	IVO
Plant studied by Mendel	PEA
Hamlet’s homeland	DENMARK
Puts in another roll of film	RELOADS
Up till now	TODATE
First word in Dante’s "Inferno"	NEL
Taunts	MOCKS
Grain bane	ERGOT
Sister of Calliope	ERATO
Not sharp or flat	TUNED
Rather nasty	SNIDE
Storm harbinger	CLAP
Marsh bird	RAIL
Name on the column "At Wit’s End"	ERMA
Hungarian city known for red wine	EGER
Seasonal worker?	ELF
Swiffer WetJet, e.g.	MOP