LA Times Daily Crossword December 10, 2019 Answers

1. Chinese sauce additive 4. Olympic swimming star Ledecky 9. L.L.Bean competitor 14. Listening organ 15. Stereotypical Pi Day celebrants 16. "Drab" color 17. Handel's "Messiah" et al. 19. Creepy film motel 20. *Fruity adult beverage 22. Put in the mail 23. Cowboys QB Prescott 24. Well-worn pencils 26. "Keystone" police 28. *Black-spotted orange flower 33. Prefix with center 34. __ Valley: Reagan Library site 35. Strand at a ski lodge, say 37. Pitcher's stat 38. *Toy pistols used on stage 41. Prefix with natal 42. Asian food breadcrumbs 44. Novelist Leon 45. They, to Thierry 46. *Toy car brand 49. Artist Warhol 50. "The Good Earth" mother 51. Some SAT takers 52. Olympian bigwig 55. Canoeing challenge whose first word can precede the start and whose second word can precede the end of the answers to starred clues 61. Safe places? 63. Talus 64. Orange Muppet 65. Not tight enough 66. ER VIPs 67. Cockamamie 68. Beginning 69. Automated spam creator

1. Cat's cry 2. Indian cover-up 3. Concert keyboard 4. Rap on the door 5. Sleek, in car talk 6. 75% of a quartet 7. Pop star 8. Ancient mystic 9. Position at work 10. Enduring work 11. Baptism or bris 12. Like Olympic years, numerically 13. "Wild" 1800s region 18. Oolong and pekoe 21. 1921 play that introduced the word "robot" 25. Euphoria 26. Stay fresh in the fridge 27. Celeb with her "OWN" network 28. Andalusian aunt 29. Little rascal 30. Lively baroque dance 31. Red Square shrine 32. Give in 34. Grouchy look 36. Prone to prying 39. Often-bookmarked address, briefly 40. Grafton's "__ for Noose" 43. "80's Ladies" country singer 47. "Yee-__!" 48. Surround, as with a saintly glow 49. Graceful steed 51. "Ni-i-ice!" 52. Cube root of acht 53. Merit 54. Forearm bone 56. Part of, plotwise 57. Boxing ref's calls 58. "Anything __?" 59. Opposite of exo- 60. "Don't play" music staff symbol 62. Date regularly