L.A. Times Daily Saturday - Aug 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily Saturday Puzzle - August 22 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Inside the NBA" analyst	ONEAL
"Knives Out" writer/director Johnson	RIAN
"Phooey!"	RATS
"Te __": Rihanna song	AMO
"The Red House Mystery" author	MILNE
"Truly!"	ICANNOTLIE
"Truly!"	HONEST
About 3.26 light-years	PARSEC
Afternoon entertainment staples	SOAPOPERAS
Arcade game grabber	CLAW
Asia's __-Kum Desert	KARA
Belgian or brown	ALE
Canonized pope known as "The Great"	STLEO
Certain junkie's stimulus	ADRENALINE
Challenge often undertaken while blindfolded	TASTETEST
Combined	POOLED
Cosmetic coating	NAILENAMEL
Delivery pros	OBS
Didn't do nothing	ACTED
Doesn't freak out	KEEPSCOOL
Easy to use	HASSLEFREE
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus," e.g	SONNET
Fair-hiring letters	EOE
Fine __	ARTS
Folklore fiend	OGRE
Folklore trickster	BRERRABBIT
Freudian subjects	EGOS
Frittata base	EGGS
Gets rid of	LOSES
God played by Anthony Hopkins in "Thor"	ODIN
Godsends	BOONS
Great places to make contact	SWEETSPOTS
Group that suspended Syria in 2011	ARABLEAGUE
H.S. instructors who show you the ropes?	PETEACHERS
Hotel handout	TOURISTMAP
Inexperienced	UNSEASONED
Irish Rose's beau	ABIE
Juba's river	NILE
Little pig, maybe	RUNT
Long way to go?	LIMO
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz	CHAST
Match with chips	SEE
Mexican toast	SALUD
Muppet who refers to himself in the third person	ELMO
NASCAR stat	MPH
Olympic swimmers Crocker and Thorpe	IANS
One sharing a pedigree	LITTERMATE
Ones working on the links	PROGOLFERS
Peripheral	OUTER
Permanent	SETINSTONE
Pi, for a circle with a radius of one	AREA
Precursors	HARBINGERS
Rapper-turned-actor	ICET
Recognizes	IDS
Required wager	ANTE
Rhyming cocktail	MANGOTANGO
Sea-__	TAC
Slaughter on the diamond	ENOS
Some white research subjects	ALBINOMICE
Stadium ticket info	GATE
Starbucks selection	CAFFEMOCHA
Talk Like a Pirate Day syllable	ARR
Tips to one side	HEELS
Tournament position	SEED
Unruly group	MOB
Where the action in Chicago's County General Hospital took place	ONER