LA Times Daily Crossword April 6, 2021 Answers

1. Shipwreck signal 4. Stan of Marvel Comics 7. Catch in a trap 12. Time period 13. Off-roader's purchase, for short 14. Quest for intel 15. *Instant in which emotional decisions are made 18. Middle-earth menace 19. Female surfer 20. Times to remember 21. Got a lift, in a way 23. Popular mints 25. Tea container 27. Gradually come to be 31. Wander about 33. Pasture 35. Where one may be taken to be reprimanded 36. Verb in a recipe 37. Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? 40. Tennis court divider 41. Family gathering attendee 43. Pacific Coast st. 44. Loch with a legend 45. Ties to a post 48. Rene of "Get Shorty" 50. Show flexibility 52. Dampen, as sound 55. Help in a bad way? 58. Coral named for its shape 60. Wheaton who played himself on "The Big Bang Theory" 61. *Defeat soundly 64. More despicable 65. Talk trash to 66. Cork's country 67. Cowboy singer Gene 68. Uneaten morsel 69. Ship in Genesis

1. *Flaky type 2. Cheerios grain 3. Came down in flakes 4. Plastering strip 5. Value system 6. Tied, as a score 7. "Seats all taken" sign 8. Archrivals 9. Asian laptop brand 10. Barrett of gossip 11. Tolkien tree race 12. Macedonian neighbor 15. MLB's Astros, on scoreboards 16. "Fiddle-__!" 17. Trifling 22. Battering __ 24. Spot on the tube 26. Vote of support 28. *Employment field 29. Keats works 30. Vets' concerns 31. Rave's partner 32. Dog in the comics 34. Brouhaha 37. Owner's document 38. Blunder 39. Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __ 42. Idle talk 44. Bounced-check letters 46. Reckless 47. Racer's bathing suit 49. Naturally brewed beverage 51. Animal with a snout 53. Vitality 54. Santa helper 55. Palindromic pop group 56. Steady guy 57. Toward sunrise 59. Speedy 62. "Do or do not. There is no __": Yoda 63. Title for Paul or Ringo