L.A. Times Daily - July 8 2017 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jul 8 2017 Sunday

Clue	Solution
Hunk	GLOB
Tortilla-wrapped serving	FAJITA
Hardly a haymaker	JAB
Pulled up a chair	SAT
Whom Samwise accompanied to Rivendell	FRODO
Backspace key, often	ERASER
One who might err on the safe side?	UMP
__ dixit: assertion without proof	IPSE
Add zing to	LIVEN
Berate	RANTAT
"Heavens!"	GOODNESS
*Lids for a fancy box?	OPERAHATS
*Easy order for a mixologist	WHISKEYNEAT
Zing	PEP
Donizetti aria "Regnava __ silenzio"	NEL
Bee bunch	SWARM
Watergate figure with a radio talk show	LIDDY
Exude	OOZE
Learn	HEAROF
Giant __, world’s largest antelope	ELAND
*Ceremonious choreography	RITUALDANCE
*Lothario’s organ	ROVINGEYE
Bearded blossom	IRIS
G, in the key of C	SOL
Adjust, as a chronometer	RESET
Tat misreadable as WOW	MOM
Honey	TOOTS
Tweaks	MODIFIES
"Is this some kind of __?"	AJOKE
New England cape	ANN
__ chi	TAI
Biting	ACID
"Good-bye, cruel world!," in Westerns	IMAGONER
*Ring leaders	BARNUMANDBAILEY
Worldwide anticrime gp.	INTERPOL
Rod’s partner	REEL
Author Deighton	LEN
Bench press muscle	PEC
Ethel on "I Love Lucy"	MERTZ
Produce a steady stream of	CHURNOUT
Words with remember or forget	TRYTO
Bon __: Comet rival	AMI
"__ the loneliest number"	ONEIS
"Argo" org.	CIA
Fine __	ARTS
*Joe may come from one	COFFEEURN
*Moved like a crowd	MILLEDABOUT
Crease-resistant fabric	ORLON
Estefan with Grammys	GLORIA
Consider to be	DEEM
Steel, e.g.	ALLOY
Form opener	LINEA
Key preposition	OER
Boxer with feats of Clay?	ALI
*Significant other	MAINSQUEEZE
Deep-rooted … and what the uncircled letters of the answers to starred clues are?	INGRAINED
Rank people?	AMATEURS
Swab’s assent	AYESIR
Blink of an eye	TRICE
D.C. pros	NATS
Cleo’s undoing	ASP
Fix, as a pump	RESOLE
Former Midwest territorial capital	OMAHA
Is for you	ARE
Steely __	DAN
Airborne camera holders	DRONES
Many a competition	RACE
Bone to pick	GRIPE
Fictional turn-on	LOVEPOTION
Smelly-sounding German river?	ODER
Windfall	BONANZA
Wild	FERAL
Smell __	ARAT
Fugitive portrayer before Ford	JANSSEN
Believer’s suffix	IST
Pots, cups, etc.	TEAWARE
Prefix with -pod	ARTHRO
Handled containers	JUGS
Every which way	AMOK
Fraternal initials	BPOE
Leadfoot	SPEEDDEMON
Syrian president	ASSAD
Touchy	TESTY
Bomb	FLOP
Baseball unit with distinct halves	INNING
Musician with a Nobel Prize	DYLAN
Bread butts	HEELS
The Who classic	IMFREE
Female in WWII	WAC
Boot from power	OUST
Heavenly topper	HALO
Original sinner	EVE
Fired up	LIT
Dexter’s wife in "Dexter"	RITA
Metal that’s pumped	IRON
__ effect	DOMINO
Alternate version, in scores	OSSIA
Farm connection	YOKE
ER part: Abbr.	EMER
Word with debt or guilt	RIDDEN
HBO rival	STARZ
Beaver’s work	DAM
Victim of hot wings?	ICARUS
More classy	FINER
Bond or bonding follower	AGENT
Delight	JOY
Dada daddy?	ARP
"Uncle" of old TV	MILTIE
Flagon filler	ALE
Risk	BET
Peptic problem	ULCER
Rain-__ gum	BLO
Apple computer	IMAC
Nautilus captain	NEMO
Like poison ivy	TRIFOLIATE
One who remembers old flames with fondness?	PYROMANIAC
Shocked accusation	ETTU
Outlay	COST
Actor Pat of Batman films	HINGLE
NCAA’s Bruins	UCLA
Broccoli __	RABE
LBJ’s antipoverty agcy.	OEO
"The Sound of Music" extra	NUN
Calculating snake?	ADDER
Leads, as a band	FRONTS
"Family Ties" mom	ELYSE
Ancient Roman currency minter	MONEYER
Anger	IRE
Go-between	LIAISON
Bubbler	AERATOR
Gecko, for one	LIZARD
Dryer brand	AMANA
Texas university in Beaumont	LAMAR
Fairy tale baddies	OGRES
Café con __	LECHE
Thought	IDEA
Campus area	QUAD
Heavenly bear	URSA
"Monday Night Football" channel	ESPN
Shade of green	NILE
Hogwarts librarian __ Pince	IRMA
That thing in Tijuana	ESO