L.A. Times Daily Friday - July 24 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

L.A. Times Daily Friday Puzzle - Jul 24 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"D'oh!"	SILLYME
"Hang in there"	KEEPITUP
"Just watch me"	LIKESO
Basic card game	WAR
Busyness symbol	BEE
Camaro __-Z	IROC
Capital south of Beirut	AMMAN
Caviar	ROE
Chaotic situation, in slang	CARNAGE
City on Utah Lake	OREM
Coffee hr	TENAM
Coffee mate?	DONUT
Coffee shop order	MOCHA
Color TV pioneer	RCA
Compact item	ROUGE
Consents	YESES
Cordial relations	AMITY
Epidemic-fighting agcy	CDC
Eurasian divide	URALS
Exploit	MILK
Falcon-finding sleuth Sam	SPADE
Feint on the ice	DEKE
Former senator Specter	ARLEN
FYI cousin	BTW
Gaming biggie	ATARI
German finale	ENDE
Given to overacting	HAMMY
Guadalajara gold	ORO
Gulf of Aqaba city	EILAT
Hard-boiled sleuth Mike	HAMMER
Having a calm temperament	NODRAMA
Honey drinks	MEADS
Identity-concealing attire, in a Dumas novel	IRONMASK
Indian yogurt dip	RAITA
It ends rather spookily: Abbr	OCT
It's a fact	DATUM
Left on a sloop	EMBARKED
Medieval Asian leader	KHAN
Metaphor for youthful indiscretion	WILDOATS
More ticked off	SORER
Mural opening	INTRA
Navel type	OUTIE
Need in many outdoor games	BALL
Northern sky sight	AURORA
One of many on a phone these days	PHOTO
Pain in the neck, e.g	ACHE
Perfume compound	ESTER
Positive pole, perhaps	ANODE
Rickman role in Harry Potter films	SNAPE
Rod in Cooperstown	CAREW
Roman fiddler	NERO
Saltpetre	NITRE
Samoan port	APIA
San Francisco's __ Valley	NOE
Sashimi selection	AHI
See 17-Across (and see circles for the solution to the mystery)	COCKROBIN
Sheltered side	LEE
Smidge	TAD
Sound from a spa	AHH
Spammer, e.g	EMAILER
Star-Lord portrayer Chris	PRATT
Takeout option	THAI
Theme park staple	RIDE
They may be crumbled in ice cream	OREOS
Tick off	IRK
Took the sloop	BOATED
Twinkly-eyed sleuth Jane	MARPLE
Twosomes in the news	ITEMS
Vientiane native	LAO
Watchdog org.?	ASPCA
Wealthy TV sleuth Matt	HOUSTON
Where Charlie "may ride forever," in a 1959 hit	MTA
Wisecracking sleuth Philip	MARLOWE
With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle	WHOKILLED
__ ballerina	PRIMA
__ Joy	ALMOND