L.A. Times Daily Puzzle - Aug 23 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily Sunday Puzzle - August 23 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Carpe diem," in textspeak	YOLO
"Dang it!"	OHCRUD
"I get it"	AHSO
"I pity the fool" speaker	MRT
"Little Red Book" writer	MAO
"Little Shop of __"	HORRORS
"No juice in my mojito, please"?	HOLDTHELIME
"__ Song": John Denver hit	ANNIES
1987 Best New Artist Grammy winner Watley	JODY
Abbr. on a teeing ground sign	YDS
Apiece	EACH
Bad blood	NOLOVELOST
Barrel component	STAVE
Behind	TUSH
Belgrade resident	SERBIAN
Belt parts	BUCKLES
Billiards type	POOL
Bit of power	WATT
Broadcast booth sign	ONAIR
Build	ERECT
Busy as __	ABEE
Chef lead-in	SOUS
Chile money	PESO
Circus highlights	ANIMALACTS
Comics impact	BAM
Compulsive fire starters, informally	PYROS
Court game	HOOPS
Cream color	ECRU
Crucifix	ROOD
Culturally affected	ARTY
Dances with shuffle steps	CHACHAS
Deep fissure	CHASM
Designer __ Saint Laurent	YVES
Do a vet's job	SPAY
Draw out	EDUCE
Drink brand with a lizard logo	SOBE
Duck Hunt console, briefly	NES
Dull-sounding critter	BOAR
Emmy-winning producer of "The Fugitive" Alan __	ARMER
Explorer da Gama	VASCO
Fail to make contact with	MISS
Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat logo	ARBYS
Fields for fillies	LEAS
File menu option	SAVE
First African-American major-league coach Buck	ONEIL
First fruit site	EDEN
Fruit farm's cash flow?	CURRANTINCOME
Fruit lover's gadget	PARER
Fruit-filled dessert, often	PIE
General and private	RANKS
Get-up-and-go	PEP
Gulf of __: Arabian Sea arm	ADEN
Gun, as an engine	REVUP
Hat that originated in Ecuador, strangely	PANAMA
Hip-hop label co-founded by Jay-Z	ROCAFELLA
How some items are auctioned	BYLOT
Intangible quality	AURA
It calls for sweeping action	MESS
It's at one end of the back	NAPE
Jack of old oaters	ELAM
Jazz guitarist Montgomery	WES
Juno's Greek counterpart	HERA
Keats' Muse	ERATO
Keyboard contemporary of Vladimir	ARTUR
Kid's punishment	NOTV
Kirsten of "Spider-Man"	DUNST
Kitchen add-on?	ETTE
Knighted Guinness	ALEC
Kurt of Nirvana	COBAIN
Lack on some gowns	STRAPS
Lawn choice	BLUEGRASS
Leadoff double?	EFS
Leaking slowly, as a faucet	ADRIP
Let loose	UNTIE
Letters for one with weekend plans	TGIF
Like "Harvard Yard," as spoken by some locals	RLESS
Like plump pets, perhaps	OVERFED
Make __ dash	AMAD
Marked on a ballot	XED
Market speculator	DAYTRADER
Masters of allusion	POETS
Medal awardees	HEROES
Mideast potentate	EMIR
Midwest native	OTOE
Mighty sharks	MAKOS
More than a little unkind	MEAN
Mosquito mating maneuver	SWARM
Most weak	PUNIEST
Muslim face covering	NIQAB
New Balance rival	AVIA
NFL pass blockers as a unit, in football lingo	OLINE
Not too sharp, as an image	LOWRES
One hanging in a 2000 election	CHAD
One may come with a train	GOWN
One removing fuzz from fuzzy fruit?	PEACHCOMBER
Ornamental hedge shrub	PRIVET
Pacific salmon	COHO
Painter Nolde	EMIL
Paul on guitar	LES
Pay to play	ANTE
Pequod, for one	WHALER
Placed	LAIN
Play setting	SCENE
Poetic pairs	IAMBI
Prime growing month for a citrus fruit?	KUMQUATMAY
Primordial substance, in physics	YLEM
Pump figure	OCTANE
Purple hue	LILAC
Recon pro	SCOUT
Reserved __	SEAT
Runaway victory	ROMP
Runs, moneywise	COSTS
Sassy "Cheers" waitress	CARLA
Scull crew	OARS
Self-appointed pub experts	BEERSNOBS
Snowblower maker	TORO
So-called "river of wind"	JETSTREAM
Solution strength	TITER
Song sung by a French fruit lover?	MYCHERRYAMOUR
Sorority letters	PHIS
Sources of current information	OCEANMAPS
Spanish lasso	REATA
Starts the show	OPENS
Styron protagonist Turner	NAT
Take a dip	BATHE
Temporary pause	LULL
Tiny tweet	PEEP
Tolkien monsters	ORCS
Took care of	SAWTO
Tortilla dough	MASA
Toy line?	LEASH
Trait carrier	GENE
VA concern	PTSD
Vegan protein source	SOY
Verse sometimes sung	ODE
Vintner's prospects?	GRAPEEXPECTATIONS
Visually rapt	AGAZE
Vocalist Sumac	YMA
Wood shop tool	VISE
Wreck with a ball	RAZE
Write-up on a fruit?	PEARREVIEW
Yale of Yale fame	ELIHU