L.A. Times Daily - July 27 2017 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jul 27 2017 Thursday 

Clue	Solution
"Dawn of the Dead" (1978) director	ROMERO
Street, in Stuttgart	STRASSE
*Billboard entry	POPSONG
"S’pose so"	IRECKON
First of a film series about Damien Thorn	THEOMEN
Cultural environments	MILIEUS
Marines NCO	SSGT
*Upright instrument in a bluegrass band	BASSFIDDLE
Head of Hollywood	EDITH
Switchback feature	ESS
Bordeaux wine	CLARET
Hankering	ITCH
Mauna __	LOA
19-Across boss	LOOIE
Conniption	FIT
"Oh, crud!"	DANG
*Place to land when there’s no land in sight	AIRCRAFTCARRIER
Span. miss	SRTA
"U R 2 funny!"	LOL
Goosebump-inducing	EERIE
Neptune’s realm	SEA
Hot state	RAGE
Irritating inconvenience	HASSLE
Post-Manhattan Project org.	AEC
Selling points?	SHOPS
*LensCrafters products	EYEGLASSES
Grouch	CRAB
"Let’s talk in my office"	NOTHERE
Word in many hymns	REJOICE
"Inka Dinka Doo" singer	DURANTE
Hollywood family name … and what the answers to starred clues have in common	BRIDGES
Son of Clytemnestra	ORESTES
Campaign ugliness	SMEARS
Official accts.	RPTS
Sounds of amazement	OOHS
Compressed video file format	MPEG
Abstruse knowledge	ESOTERICA
Com can follow it	ROM
At all	ONEBIT
"The Urbz: __ in the City": video game	SIMS
Long-odds bet	TRIFECTA
It’s often put on a dog	RELISH
Litmus reddeners	ACIDS
Short itinerary?	SKED
Motown music	SOUL
First word of Massachusetts’ motto	ENSE
Pest in a swarm	GNAT
Lazy	SHIFTLESS
Stag, for one	DEER
Elegance	CLASS
French wine valley	LOIRE
Main artery	AORTA
It may be nervous	TIC
Hibernation spots	LAIRS
NBC newsman Roger	ONEIL
Come to terms	AGREE
Specification regarding threads	DRESSCODE
Like many steakhouse menus	ALACARTE
London bank?	FOG
Harvest	REAP
Give in	RELENT
Unmannerly sorts, in Canadian slang	HOSERS
Turkish honorifics	AGHAS
Window box plant	HERB
Opposite of exo-	ENDO
Part of FYI	YOUR
Raison d’__	ETRE
Witnesses	SEES
Latvian capital	RIGA
Taiwan-based computer giant	ACER
Gershwin heroine	BESS
Parsons of "Hidden Figures"	JIM