L.A. Times Daily - Sunday Oct 24 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Oct 24 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Dear Evan __": 2015 musical	HANSEN
"I can't agree to this"	NODEAL
"I'm __ to hear from you!"	SOGLAD
"Just kidding!"	NOT
"Nightmare" street	ELM
"Rugrats" dad	STU
*"Virtuous Woman" reggae singer	WARRIORKING
*Grizzly, for one	BROWNBEAR
*ICBM booster until 1987	TITANROCKET
*It goes up in cold weather	HEATBILL
*Kipling's Shere Khan is one	BENGALTIGER
*Nickname for Joe DiMaggio	YANKEECLIPPER
*Olaf II of Norway, notably	VIKINGSAINT
*The sun will eventually be one	REDGIANT
2012 Facebook event, for short	IPO
A musician usually has a good one	EAR
Airline with an all-kosher menu	ELAL
Allergic outburst	AHCHOO
Attacks	HASAT
Author Sheehy	GAIL
Bagpiper's topper	TAM
Bareilles of "Waitress"	SARA
Before, poetically	ERE
Best Supporting Actress before Ingrid	TATUM
Béte __	NOIRE
Button alternative	SNAP
Candy bar with a Nordic name	SKOR
Cat's weapons	CLAWS
Cell division	MITOSIS
Cheese on crackers	BRIE
China __: showy bloom	ASTER
Claim no longer allowed on cigarettes	LESSTAR
Comic book artist	INKER
Condemnation	REPROOF
Confirms, as a password	RETYPES
Dark area on the moon	MARE
Demonstrating skill	ABLY
Discolor by burning	SCORCH
Docking place	BERTH
Earthly	TERRENE
Eye, to a poet	ORB
Fluoride-in-water meas	PPM
Fortune	WEALTH
Genesis twin	ESAU
Going places?	TOILETS
Grown-up efts	NEWTS
Guru's residence	ASHRAM
Hose clamp tightener	TBOLT
Hudson Bay nation	CREE
Huff and puff	PANT
Insurance that covers dams?	DENTAL
It was added to create an everyday quintet in 1990	UMAMI
Jack of "Some Like It Hot"	LEMMON
Knowledge of spiritual matters	GNOSIS
Like some dorms	COED
List for a versatile tool	USES
Little trickster	ELF
Loses steam	FLAGS
Mahershala of "Moonlight"	ALI
Manicurist's board	EMERY
Max Ernst, for one	DADAIST
Mentally assimilate	DIGEST
Merit	EARN
Middles	WAISTS
Mil. mess duties	KPS
Military alert state	DEFCON
MLB Hall of Famer Fox and journalist Bly	NELLIES
Model in the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun"	TBIRD
Modern Persians	IRANIS
More klutzy	GAWKIER
NL Central club	STL
Not even rare?	RAW
Originally called	NEE
Ornamental vase	URN
Overhaul	REDO
Par-3 choice, often	IRON
Pass rusher's stat	SACKS
Past pudgy	OBESE
Perfume that sounds forbidden	TABU
Pickup relatives, briefly	UTES
Pizzazz	ELAN
Place for a pad	KNEE
Played really badly	STANK
Poke fun at	GIBE
Pool concern	ALGAE
Posse carriers	HORSES
Prepare, as a contract	DRAWUP
Presidential nickname	ABE
Quote from Homer	DOH
R&B great James	ETTA
Reason to cram	TEST
Relax, maybe	LIE
Relaxed	ATEASE
Response to goo	ICK
Result of one too many, maybe	SLUR
Ring at a wedding	PEAL
Rookie, briefly	NEWB
Scrabble piece	TILE
Self-reproach	REGRET
Series finale: Abbr	ETAL
Shades	TONES
Sharply hit baseball	LINER
Show with constant cliff-hangers	SOAP
Singer Ed featured in the 2019 film "Yesterday"	SHEERAN
Slugger's creation	SHINER
Small intake	SIP
Smoothie fruit	ACAI
Solheim Cup team	USA
Sound of shock	GASP
Spiritualist Deepak	CHOPRA
State of suppressed worry	STEW
Story line	PLOT
Sub	TEMP
Subtle glows	AURAE
Sunbather's pride	DARKTAN
Surfboard/kayak hybrid	WAVESKI
Takes off	GOES
Talk acronym	TED
Target of a military press	DELT
Telescope part	LENS
They're on the same side ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues	TEAMMATES
Thinks	IDEATES
Tick off	RILE
To this day	YET
To-do	HOOHA
TRUE	ALIGN
Turkish bigwigs	AGHAS
Understanding	KEN
Use for preservation, as wine barrels	STOREIN
Uses, as a scale	STEPSON
Utopias	EDENS
Va. winter hours	EST
VP under Jefferson	BURR
Wasikowska of "Damsel"	MIA
Willing to listen (to)	OPEN
Without ice	NEAT
Wolf down	EAT
Words of understanding	OHS
Yarn spinner	LIAR
Yearn	ACHE
Yellowfin tuna	AHI
Zip one's lip	KEEPMUM
__ a soul	NARY
__ throat	STREP