L.A. Times Daily - May 21 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily - May 21 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'I don't mind __ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels': Nash	EELS
'Mine! Mine! Mine!' criers in 'Finding Nemo'	GULLS
'Toodles!'	TATA
'Wrong hand, silly'	YOUROTHERRIGHT
Academic term	SCHOOLYEAR
Active front?	RETRO
Actress Thurman	UMA
Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings	DINGO
Bag	SNARE
Bags	TRAPS
Brandon __: Hilary Swank's 'Boys Don't Cry' role	TEENA
Breeding grounds	HOTBEDS
Clipped	TERSE
Derived from gold	AURIC
Dessert with a high point	SOFTSERVE
Device that requires spin control	LATHE
Earthenware vessel	CROCK
Eyelid issue	STYE
Fox holes	DENS
Get set	PREP
Grace period?	AMEN
GRE org	ETS
Heterogenous union	ALLOY
Inoculation fluids	SERA
Instruments in some Gershwin works	ALTOSAXES
Joie de vivre	ELAN
Lacks options	HASGOTTO
Latin law	LEX
Leaves in a pot	TEA
Like a fly ball to the warning track	DEEP
Line on a handwriting test	NEATNESSCOUNTS
Literary alter ego	HYDE
Make dough or bread	EARN
Many times o'er	OFT
Nice parent	MERE
Not well-done in the least	EXTRARARE
One having a cow?	MEATEATER
One of two tarot card groups	ARCANA
One working with a dictator	STENO
Pair sharing a <3 necklace, probably	BFFS
Perfectly	TOATURN
Place to get high and pass out?	TOPBUNK
Poetic contraction	TWERE
Polished	SUAVE
Postulant	NOVICE
Role, metaphorically	HAT
Rose up on stage	AXL
Rowing implement?	HOE
Rx writers, often	DRS
Safari runners	MACS
Self-consoling sigh	ITRIED
Small pouches	SACS
Son of Hera	ARES
Sources of fleeting joy?	YACHTS
State whose road signs feature 8-Downs	UTAH
Study aid	FLASHCARD
Support that's often rigged	MAST
Susan who wrote, 'The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth'	SONTAG
Sweet	HONEYED
Symbol of 53-Across	BEEHIVE
Tabula rasa	CLEANSLATE
Three-part fig	SSN
Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black Panther's suits	NANOBOTS
Tours of duty	HITCHES
Tree on the Lebanese flag	CEDAR
Was awash in euphoria	FELTGIDDY
Went viral	BLEWUP
Wiped out	ALLIN