L.A. Times Daily - August 15 2021 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Aug 15 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'101 Dalmatians' protagonist	PONGO
'50s TV innovation	CABLE
'As __ to breathe were life!': Tennyson	THO
'Encore!'	ONEMORE
'Fantastic Four' villain, briefly	DRDOOM
'Let's go!'	CMON
'M*A*S*H' set piece	COT
'Push It' hip-hop trio	SALTNPEPA
'S'pose so'	IRECKON
'Sister Act' role	NUN
'The Jungle Book' wolf	AKELA
'The Sound of Music' name	TRAPP
'To Kill a Mockingbird' recluse Boo __	RADLEY
'Waiting for Godot' playwright	BECKETT
'Walking in Memphis' singer Cohn	MARC
'__ roll!'	IMONA
*'90s nickname for pop's Mel C	SPORTYSPICE
*Dessert literally represented in six pairs of answers to the starred clues	LAYERCAKE
*Drywall material	SHEETROCK
*Fish that doesn't taste like its name suggests	LEMONSOLE
*Flattering words before a request	BEANANGEL
*Fruity fountain offering	BANANASPLIT
*Killjoy, in modern lingo	FUNSPONGE
*Kraft offering, casually	MACNCHEESE
*Pancake order	SHORTSTACK
*Poet who influenced T.S. Eliot	EZRAPOUND
*Pre-TV performance genre involving arias	RADIOOPERA
*Sushi fish	YELLOWTAIL
1956 hot spot	SUEZ
1992 baseball biopic	THEBABE
AFL-__	CIO
Anderson Cooper's network	CNN
Arguments	ROWS
Baker's dozen?	EGGS
Bangladesh capital	DHAKA
Bath tissue packaging word	PLY
Beyoncé, since 2002	SOLOACT
Biker's ride	HOG
Birthstone after sapphire	OPAL
Blasting stuff	TNT
Blubber	BAWL
Brought down	RAZED
Brown brew	ALE
Busy	INUSE
BYU team nickname	COUGARS
Cafeteria fixture	TRAY
Cavalry weapon	LANCE
Class assignment	ESSAY
Common URL ending	COM
Concrete hunks	SLABS
Conveyed	BORNE
Copperfield field	MAGIC
Cosmetics liquid	TONER
Course for H.S. exam takers	SATPREP
Cribbage pieces	PEGS
Cut	AXED
Cuts with a beam	LASES
Defeat	TOP
Destructive 'Doctor Who' creature	DALEK
Digital greeting	ECARD
Director Welles	ORSON
Empty, as a U-Haul	UNLOAD
Enters slowly	OOZESIN
Fa follower	SOL
Formally surrender	CEDE
Fresh	SASSY
GOP org	RNC
Greener Living org	EPA
Handed out fresh cards	REDEALT
Has a mediocre round ... for a pro	SHOOTSPAR
Head for Vegas?	LAS
Hearty laugh	GUFFAW
Here, in Jalisco	ACA
Highlands miss	LASS
Hip	MOD
Hold-up man?	ATLAS
It may take a licking	STAMP
Joltless joe?	DECAF
Kelly of morning TV	RIPA
Least distinct	HAZIEST
Letter closer	YOURS
Like many Pixar movies	PGRATED
Little devils	IMPS
Lodge member	ELK
Long-distance swimmer Diana	NYAD
Low digit	TOE
Make part of a larger state	ANNEX
Mayim Bialik alma mater	UCLA
Med. condition with repetitive behavior	OCD
Miniature vehicle that uses a remote, briefly	RCCAR
MLB player, e.g	PRO
Model 3 autos	TESLAS
Neutral vowel symbol	SCHWA
Novelist Waugh	ALEC
Numbered work	OPUS
Of course, in Cannes	BIENSUR
Ohno on skates	APOLO
Old Sony CD player	DISCMAN
Old Turkish title	PASHA
Packaging meas	NTWT
Polite address	MAAM
Presently, quaintly	ANON
Price-qualifying word	PER
Provide an address	ORATE
Pull behind	TOW
Regarding	ASTO
Row of seats	PEW
Run from a stage?	EMCEE
Salsa order	MILD
Santa Monica landmark	PIER
Scottie in Hitchcock's 'Vertigo,' for example	ACROPHOBE
Seafarer's direction	THAR
Seriously outrun on the track	LAP
Shipping document	WAYBILL
Silently understood	TACIT
Snaky swimmers	EELS
Soda measure	LITER
Solo	ALONE
South Pacific region	OCEANIA
Spartan serf	HELOT
Speaks badly of	MALIGNS
Spot for suds	MUG
Stereotypical ingenue facial feature	DOEEYES
Stuns	WOWS
Swerved at sea	YAWED
Tampa Bay NFLer	BUC
Target of some Bob Dylan songs	WAR
Tennyson work	ULYSSES
Terminus	END
To boot	ALSO
Trapped, in a way	ICEDIN
Twin, say	SIB
Unidentified flying radar blips	BOGIES
Up to this point, informally	TILNOW
Very little	ADAB
Voluminous ref	OED
Waldorf salad morsels	WALNUTS
Was humiliated	ATECROW
Went down	SANK
Yearns (for)	LONGS
Zing	ZESTINESS
__-3 fatty acids	OMEGA