L.A. Times Daily Sunday - Aug 30 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily Sunday Puzzle - August 30 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Explain, please?"	HOWSO
"Ginger __": 1952 Newbery Medal-winning book	PYE
"Hair" dos	AFROS
"SNL" staples	SPOOFS
"Spring forward" letters	DST
"Today" rival, briefly	GMA
"Wait ... let me start over"	IMGETTINGMYSELF
"What a mess!"	OHNO
"__ a loss"	IMAT
911 pro	EMT
A time to dye	EASTER
Alaskan native	ALEUT
Alpha's antithesis	OMEGA
Asian festival	TET
Asian wraps	SARIS
Assumed names	ALIASES
Back (out)	OPT
Bad look	LEER
Beach toys	PAILS
Beat in the kitchen	WHISK
Beautify	ADORN
Belief common to much religion	DEATHLIFE
Big name in tennis	SERENA
Big shot: Abbr	ENL
Boat owner's rental	SLIP
Brother of Ham	SHEM
Bunny tail	SCUT
Busy center	HUB
Campaign funders	FATCATS
Car radio button	PRESET
Carpenter's groove	DADO
Caught	INATRAP
Cellar, but not collar, opening	SOFTC
Christine of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"	LAHTI
Comics cry from a birdcage	AWK
Coral component	POLYP
Culture: Pref	ETHNO
Diamond surfaces	FACETS
Did gondola duty	POLED
Disappearing retail giant	KMART
Dollar alternative	ALAMO
Drawers?	MAGNETS
Dudley's toon foe	SNIDELY
Dusk, to Donne	EEN
Early Mesoamerican sculptors	OLMEC
Early pictures	SILENTS
Ed.'s stack	MSS
Eponymous newborn score creator	APGAR
Family dinner fowl	ROASTER
Fancy poultry dish	GLASSPHEASANT
Features of urns	SPIGOTS
Feeling ecstatic	SITTINGTHEWORLD
First name of Dickens' Madame Defarge	THERESE
First novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle	ERAGON
Fitness mantra opening	USEIT
Flat owner, maybe	LESSOR
Flock hangout	LEA
Friend of Goat in "Pearls Before Swine"	PIG
Gentrification target	EYESORE
Georgia gridders, to fans	DAWGS
Gets dirty	SOILS
Gets one's feet wet	WADES
Granada girls	NINAS
Hacking targets: Abbr	SSNS
Hackneyed	TRITE
Half of scissors?	ESSES
Half of some couples	SPOUSE
Heat up	RILE
Heckle, but not Jeckle	HARASS
Hermione's guy	RON
Hershey's caramel candies	ROLOS
Home on high	AERIE
Honors	AWARDS
Hosp. readouts	EEGS
It may be golden	LAGER
It's a sign	LEO
Karmann __: classic VW	GHIA
Kick starter?	SIDE
L, in box scores	LOSS
LGBT History Mo	OCT
Like a fleabag motel	SEEDY
Like radon, say	INERT
List-shortening term	ETALIA
Lodge opening?	ECONO
Loosens, as a tot's pajamas	UNSNAPS
Lustful looker	OGLER
Make every effort	BENDBACKWARDS
Member of three L.A. Lakers championship teams	SHAQ
Method for slow, steady progress	ONEFOOTTHEOTHER
Middling	SOSO
Milne hopper	ROO
Najimy who voiced Peggy Hill in "King of the Hill"	KATHY
Negative forecast	ZEROFIVEDEGREES
O'er and o'er again	OFT
Ocean flipper	FIN
Old manuscript copier	SCRIBE
Overlook	SEEPAST
Oxygen-eating bacteria	AEROBES
Paging devices	BEEPERS
Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire"	DEV
Platters in sleeves	LPS
Point	DOT
Polynesian wrap	SARONG
President before an Adams	MONROE
Puts down	ABASES
Rage	IRE
Remote area known for its middle?	NOWHERE
Retired fliers: Abbr	SSTS
Sauces for sushi	SOYS
Scalpel sites, for short	ORS
School reunion attendee	ALUM
Sellout letters	SRO
Sheepish girl?	EWE
Short staff?	ASSTS
Short trip	HOP
Sierra __	LEONE
Sign of a hit	DENT
Soft hits just over the infield	BLOOPS
Some online reads	EZINES
Some retired academics	EMERITI
Some skippers	STONES
Sound	SANE
Spa sounds	AHS
Stadium merch	TSHIRTS
Sticks on a boat	OARS
Stream blockers	DAMS
Superior to all others	ACUTTHEREST
Svelte	SLENDER
The "P" in PIN: Abbr	PERS
To the point	TERSE
Took a breather	PAUSED
TV's Burrell and baseball's Cobb	TYS
Uncle Sam's land, proudly	USOFA
Unilever swab	QTIP
Uses a Zoom alternative	SKYPES
Western PA airport code	ERI
Wks. and wks	MOS
Yoga syllables	OMS
__ dish	PETRI
__ Park, Colorado	ESTES