L.A. Times Daily - Tuesday July 27 2021 Crossword Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - July 27 2021 Crossword Solution

Clues	Answers
"Spider-Man" trilogy director Sam	RAIMI
"The African Queen" co-screenwriter James	AGEE
"The lady __ protest too much, methinks": "Hamlet"	DOTH
"To clarify ... "	THATIS
*Comedic climax	GAGLINE
*Keg buy in a pub	BEERONTAP
*Ray Kinsella in "Field of Dreams," e.g	BASEBALLFAN
*Site of an annual ball drop	TIMESSQUARE
121-episode TV drama set on a mysterious island	LOST
Acrylic fiber	ORLON
Apparently are	SEEM
Bach composition	SUITE
Barely runs?	STREAKS
Batting stats	AVERAGES
Bernie's songwriting partner	ELTON
Best ever, initially	GOAT
Bonobo, for one	APE
Charged particle	ION
Citi Field team	METS
Civil War soldier	REB
Como una mujer con mucho dinero	RICA
Damages	MARS
Deckhand	MATE
Electrical unit	VOLT
ESP neighbor, to the IOC	POR
Et __: and others	ALII
Eva of "Green Acres"	GABOR
Fairly brisk gait	TROT
Fancy neckwear	ASCOT
Flight tracker info	ETA
Florida theme park	EPCOT
Folksy Guthrie	ARLO
French Revolution radical	MARAT
Frozen rain	SLEET
Half a pair	ONE
Halley observation	COMET
Haphazard way to run	AMOK
Hawaii state bird	NENE
Improved in value	ENHANCED
In the style of	ALA
Item for a dinghy	OAR
Judges	DEEMS
Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams," e.g	STAR
Kind of sax	ALTO
Knights or rooks	CHESSMEN
L.A.'s Staples Center, e.g	ARENA
Less prevalent	RARER
Lock on one's head	TRESS
Love to pieces	ADORE
Montreal's prov	QUE
Mosque leader	IMAM
Not good under-the-hood sound	RATTLING
Old MGM rival	RKO
Oscar, for one	AWARD
Oxfam and CARE, for two	NGOS
Paddled boat	CANOE
Pan Am rival	TWA
Phones in pockets or purses	CELLS
Poetry competition	SLAM
Polite refusal	NOSIR
Quarterback's asset	ARM
Rhett's last words	ADAMN
Salinger title girl who says, "I'm extremely interested in squalor"	ESME
Shocked sound	GASP
Smart guy?	ALEC
Somehow knows	INTUITS
Sorbonne summers	ETES
Source of fiber	BRAN
Space	ROOM
Subsequent to	AFTER
Theater tier	LOGE
Things of little consequence	NITS
Tibetan honorific	LAMA
Unkempt dos	MOPS
Was understood, finally	SANKIN
Wedding reception finale, and a feature of the answers to starred clues	LASTDANCE
Working the case	ONIT
Zilch	NADA