L.A. Times Daily - May 18 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily - May 18 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"!!!"	OMG
"Darn!"	RATS
"Ditto"	SAME
"Finally!"	ATLAST
"It's a Wonderful Life" director	CAPRA
"Shazam!" actor Zachary	LEVI
"The Hobbit" dragon	SMAUG
"Tom & __": biopic about T.S. Eliot and his first wife	VIV
"What __ is new?"	ELSE
Against	ANTI
Analogy punctuation	COLONS
Ancient artifact	RELIC
Audio jack abbr	MIC
Be in the picture?	ACT
Big Apple?	IMAC
Boatloads	ALOT
Botch	FLUB
Capital city served by Gardermoen Airport	OSLO
Chem class	LAB
Country quartet __ Young Band	ELI
Critter	ANIMAL
Dazed state	TRANCE
Delay	LAG
Detroit pro	LION
Dickens orphan, and what is found in each set of circles in this puzzle?	OLIVERTWIST
Elitist sort	SNOB
Evergreen wood used for flooring	YELLOWPINE
Fashion monogram	YSL
Fertility clinic egg	OVUM
Fictional archaeologist Croft	LARA
Goal at a film audition	MOVIEROLE
Goes it alone	SOLOS
Good Grips gadget brand	OXO
Guy who writes jokes	GAGMAN
Gym shirt	TEE
Hypothetical cosmic stuff	DARKMATTER
Ice cream concoctions	FLOATS
Indy entrant	RACER
Investment option when leaving an employer	ROLLOVERIRA
Killer whale	ORCA
L, in a hotel elevator	LOBBY
Land in the agua	ISLA
Leaving the state without permission, perhaps	PAROLEVIOLATION
Less approachable	ICIER
Like a podcast about recording a podcast	META
Like everything in a she shed	HERS
Link to another story?	STAIR
London fashion street	SAVILEROW
Long slog	TREK
Lounge around	LOLL
Low joint	ANKLE
Make muddy	ROIL
Mardi Gras locale, familiarly	NOLA
Mideast sultanate	OMAN
Minor injury	SCRAPE
Napoli's home	ITALIA
Off-roader, for short	ATV
Out to lunch, say	EATING
Outer: Pref	EXO
Physics entity	ATOM
Planets, to poets	ORBS
Pour hamster food into the dog's bowl, say	ERR
Prom wear	GOWNS
Punk subgenre	EMO
Rapunzel's abundance	HAIR
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rapper MC __	REN
Rub harshly	GRATE
Station with an eye on the TV	CBS
Steeped beverage	TEA
Sunrise locale	EAST
Tizzy	SNIT
Trattoria frozen dessert	GRANITA
TV host Kelly	RIPA
Wee	MINUTE
Wild guess	STAB
Words of regret	APOLOGY
__ and reel	ROD
__ Sutra	KAMA