L.A. Times Daily - Sunday Jul 18 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Jul 18 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Get __": James Brown biopic	ONUP
"Give __ minute"	MEA
"It is a __ told by an idiot": Macbeth	TALE
"It totally happened!"	WAY
"North and South" trilogy author John __	JAKES
"Not in the __"	LEAST
"__ of robins ... ": Kilmer	ANEST
1956 title film monster	RODAN
A navel ring is a piercing one may __	WEARUNDERUNDERWEAR
African capital on the 30th parallel	CAIRO
Announcer Hall	EDD
Apple operating system	IOS
Apply a new hue to	DYE
Arty	CHICHI
Barely sufficient	SCANT
Be resourceful	MAKEDO
Become more intense, as the moon	WAX
Beethoven's __	NINTH
Big deal	ADO
Bill's partner	COO
Book after John	ACTS
Bossy utterance	MOO
Bread-making grain	RYE
Break	REST
Brief afterthoughts	PSS
Browsing annoyances	ADS
Business end of an ax	BLADE
Cause to become	RENDER
Cheat on one's sweet, say	TWOTIME
Choose at the polls	VOTE
Clarifying Latin words	IDEST
Confided in	TRUSTED
Consume	USE
Cook, as much county fair fare	DEEPFRY
Current events?	EDDIES
Demands and gets	EXACTS
Early photograph	TINTYPE
Excalibur, e.g	SWORD
Expand	ADDTO
Fail to take seriously	SNEERAT
Fall garden?	EDEN
False front	FACADE
Feeling it after a workout	ACHY
Final Four org	NCAA
Follow (along) closely	TAG
Following	AFTER
Framework strips	LATHS
Freshened up, in a way	AERATED
Gauge on the dash	TACH
Gazes fixedly	STARES
Gelatin garnish	ASPIC
Get into	DON
Gift with an aloha	LEI
Gives out	TIRES
Google operating system	ANDROID
Grew dimmer	WANED
Hadrian's defense	WALL
Honorary title	SIR
Hoops statistic	ASSIST
Hot temper	IRE
Icelandic literary work	EDDA
In favor of Mideast unity	PANARAB
Inane	DAFT
Indicating stress	ITALIC
Iraqi currency	DINAR
It has pipes and keys	ORGAN
Its capital is Kigali	RWANDA
Kitty	PUSS
Largest English-speaking country	CANADA
Laughing	RIANT
Like fireplace logs	SAWN
Locket, for one	PENDANT
Long	YEARN
Lowdown	INFO
LP's 33 1/3	RPM
Lusters	SHEENS
Mae West's "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted," e.g	PUN
Massaged	KNEADED
Memorable first name in soccer	MIA
Metal source	ORE
Modified for the better	AMENDED
Moriarty, to Holmes	FOE
Most trifling	MEREST
Mount Rainier gateway	TACOMA
Mrs., in Madrid	SRA
NBA's Steph Curry, frequently	SHOOTER
Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle	KWAN
Not sensible	UNWISE
Often "old" eccentric	CODGER
Often titled stretch	ERA
One lining up for food?	ANT
Opposite of trans	CIS
Parisian season	ETE
Pecorino __ cheese	ROMANO
Picnic pitcherful	ICEDTEA
Plant stem joint	NODE
Poke fun at	KID
Prez on a penny	ABE
Private	INNER
Privileged people	ELITE
Put back as it was	RESTORE
Red-skinned root	RADISH
Reduce	PARE
Refrains from	AVOIDS
Response to the sublime	AWE
Right after this	HEREON
Riverbank residue	SILT
Sailing	ASEA
Sea anemone, e.g	POLYP
Secure, as a job or a role	LAND
Shipping hazard	REEF
Shot __: competitive event	PUT
Showing strain	TAUT
Sidelong glance	LEER
Singer/actress known as the "Queen of Pop"	MADONNA
Slowpoke	LAGGARD
Small racer	KART
Smart	NATTY
Soaked through	SODDEN
Source of some overhead footage	DRONE
Stab	TRY
Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant	ACE
Strong speaker	ORATOR
Sugary ending	OSE
Surrealist German-French painter	ARP
Sweetens, as yams	CANDIES
Taste	FLAVOR
The casual quarterback made an __	OFFHANDHANDOFF
The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __	TAKEOUTOUTTAKE
The Eiger, for one	ALP
The fast-learning police cadet had the __	PATDOWNDOWNPAT
The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __	SLEEPOVEROVERSLEEP
Took care of the food	CATERED
Track contests	EVENTS
Vote of support	AYE
What a stationary orrery part may represent	SUN
What chatty tongues do?	WAG
What Jill has that Jack doesn't?	DOT
When the dog got loose, some house plants __	ENDEDUPUPENDED
Within	AMID
Wordless agreement	NOD
Wretched	ABJECT
__ Kingdom	UNITED
__ longlegs	DADDY