L.A. Times Daily - Feb 27 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily - Feb 27 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Don't back down, bro!"	MANUP
"Don't think so"	IBET
"Elements of Algebra" author	EULER
"First Lady of Song"	ELLA
"Ghost Story" author Peter	STRAUB
"Give me some gossip!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers	SPILLTHETEA
"Gotcha" sounds	AHS
"High Rollers" co-host __ Lee	RUTA
"Mr. __": Rami Malek drama	ROBOT
"Play it cool"	ACTCASUAL
"Star Wars" nickname	ANI
"Thank the Lord!"	PRAISEBE
"That's wrong __ many levels"	ONSO
"The Crocodile" of early tennis	RENELACOSTE
"The Misery Index" network	TBS
"You know the __"	DRILL
"__ Holiday": opening section of Copland's "Rodeo"	BUCKAROO
23andMe discovery	ANCESTOR
70-Across nephew	FRODO
90-Down's improv	SCAT
Alert on the road	HONKAT
Altruism	SELFLESSNESS
Amtrak speedster	ACELA
Apple runs on it	IOS
Beat it	RUNAWAY
Berry in a bowl	ACAI
Blow a fuse	LOSEIT
Boarding precedes it: Abbr	ETD
Bulgarian's neighbor	SERB
Café freebie	EAU
Cap with a pompon	TAM
CD precursors	LPS
Certain carton components	EGGCUPS
Channel changer	REMOTE
Chef's protection	APRON
Chinese for "black dragon"	OOLONG
Classic U.K. sports cars	MGS
Comparative data diagram	BARGRAPH
Completely different situation	AWHOLEOTHLGAME
Convened in	METAT
Dad's referral?	GOASKMOM
Daybreaks	DAWNS
De __: again	NOVO
Designer Ashley	OLSEN
Duchamp, for one	DADAIST
Entrance porch	STOOP
Fett in "The Mandalorian"	BOBA
First woman to be named Doctor of the Church, briefly	STTERESA
Flings	HURLS
Flood shelter	ARK
Foil relatives	EPEES
Following	POSSE
Forbid	BAN
Foretell	AUGUR
Garlic genus	ALLIUM
Gawk at	OGLE
German "Alas!"	ACH
Get plastered	TOPE
Good name, briefly	REP
Got a move on	HASTENED
Grams	NANAS
Gucci of fashion	ALDO
Half a martial art	TAI
Hammer parts	PEENS
Hanukkah top	DREIDEL
Hot state	IRE
How three nursery-rhyme merchants went to sea	INATUB
ID on many returns	SSN
Idea that spreads in a culture	MEME
Identical	SAME
Indian flatbread	ROTI
Instruction	TRAINING
Intimidate, with "down"	STARE
JFK predecessor	DDE
Just make, with "out"	EKE
Kendrick with a Pulitzer	LAMAR
Kind of pig that's not a pig	GUINEA
Laker legend, familiarly	KOBE
Laser pointer chaser	CAT
Lets out, say	ALTERS
Like a romantic dinner, in Paris	ADEUX
Like some cornered kings	MATED
Like some remedies	HERBAL
Luzon, for one: Abbr	ISL
Maiden name preceder	NEE
Make drinkable, as seawater	DESALT
Middle-earth ring bearer	BILBGGINS
Most of the 2010s	OBAMAERA
Most sentimental	WEEPIEST
New Deal agcy	NRA
NIAID director	DRFAUCI
Night before	EVE
Nos. for alums	YRS
Often abbreviated reaction to information overload	TODIDNTREAD
On the lam	ATLARGE
ORD posting	ETA
Org. with many returns	IRS
Paris article	LES
Paris gal pal	AMIE
Penicillium, e.g	MOLD
Piedmont bubbly	ASTI
Post	SEND
Prefix with treat or giving	MIS
Prepare, as beans	SOAK
Putting __	GREEN
Raggedy	MOTHEATEN
Résumé alert about an unfinished goal	DEGOTCOMPLETED
Reunion attendees	AUNTS
Ruckus	ADO
See 91-Across	NOSE
Sellers of KAFFEREP cinnamon buns	IKEAS
Serf of Sparta	HELOT
Short on iron, maybe	ANEMIC
Soybeans served in the pod	EDAMAME
Span of a scale with three sharps	ATOA
Stain	STIGMA
Starter	HORSDOEUVRE
Sultan's group	HAREM
Teen dystopian novel narrator	KATNISS
That, in Madrid	ESA
They can be tricky to run into	EXES
Thompson of Marvel movies	TESSA
Tokyo airport	NARITA
Tory adversary	WHIG
Total removals	ERADICATIONS
Trailer follower	MOVIE
Trivia night settings	PUBS
Type of diet that might replace potatoes with cauliflower	LOWCARB
Ukulele ridge	FRET
Votes against	NOS
What Rickey Henderson often beat	THETAG
With 6-Down, Rudolph's guiding light	RED
Word with words or chance	LAST
Zoom annoyance	TIMELAG
__ B'rith	BNAI
__ de' Medici, first de facto Lord of Florence	COSIMO
__ in Charlie	CAS
__ the line	TOE
__-Ball	SKEE
___ Technica: tech news website	ARS