LA Times Daily Crossword December 27, 2020 Answers

1. Bend in pointe shoes 5. Style 9. Dark film genre 13. __ Sticks: drain-cleaning aid 17. Sweet-talk 18. Barn-raising group 20. Worth a rave review, in show biz 21. University near Durham, NC 22. Half-off sale acronym 23. Destination for aficionados 24. Workplace movie screen? 26. Small Kia SUV 28. Street show 30. "Dust in the Wind" rockers 31. Tampico abode 32. Silas with a loom 33. Chicago-to-Indianapolis dir. 34. Good news, in a metaphor 37. Chill-inducing 38. Prepared for surgery, in a way 42. Titles for attys. 43. Apple product for unmarried men? 47. Frites seasoning 48. Generate, with "up" 49. "I Left Something Turned __ Home": 1997 Trace Adkins hit 50. Côte d'__ 51. Court game word 52. Actress Lupino 53. List of PGA players with pictorial links to their bios? 57. Fist bumps 58. Action movie staple 60. Worked with a crew, maybe 61. Utah range 62. Upper class 63. Graceful 64. Checked out in advance 66. Trojan king 68. Some steaks 69. Contentious filings 72. Swimsuit designer Gernreich 73. Order to a construction worker? 76. __ polloi 77. Utah Valley University city 78. Corrida cries 79. Diamond's opposite, on the Mohs scale 80. Parachute necessity 81. Ovine cry 82. Apple media player for silly songs? 86. __ facto 87. E.T.'s Earth pal 89. Eat away 90. Day of the PGA 91. Arrest 92. "Which one will it be?" 94. Cheater's device 96. Emulate Earhart 99. "Silent Night" et al. 100. The NFL had two of them in 2018 104. Brew with a hint of chocolate? 106. Gets a ride, but not a Lyft 108. Jazz club group 109. Cleveland's lake 110. Dorm diet staple 111. Puerto Rico's third-largest city 112. U. of Maryland athlete 113. Like Span. o-ending nouns 114. Nor. neighbor 115. Test for jrs. 116. Summer quaffs

1. EPA-banned toxins 2. Chicago district, with "the" 3. "Othello" villain 4. Event in a classic William Peter Blatty novel 5. Half a '60s quartet 6. Last of 24 7. Cut into cubes 8. Upper left key 9. Like some ATM withdrawals 10. Proposal 11. "__ had known ... " 12. Standouts in a field 13. One with net income? 14. Charity 15. Weather-monitoring gp. 16. "Devil Inside" band 19. African capital once known as Salisbury 20. Island east of Sumatra 25. Alleviated 27. It may be an X or an O 29. Seed pod 32. Conductor Zubin 34. "M*A*S*H" figure 35. Vitamin spec 36. Perfect one of three meals? 37. Bitcoin, e.g. 38. Twirled 39. Kauai breakfast restaurants? 40. Vaulted 41. Donovan of "Clueless" 43. Title Kazakh in a 2006 spoof 44. Win by __ 45. Beat anxiously 46. Brand that once sported a crocodile 51. Bye that's bid 53. Stiffly proper 54. "True dat!" 55. Intimidate 56. Type of whiskey 59. Assert 61. Cold War enemy 63. "All That Jazz" choreographer 64. Suspension bridge support 65. Surveillance plane acronym 66. Investigation 67. Like much of Nebraska 68. Form of security 69. Balaban of "Definitely, Maybe" 70. Trunk 71. Lebanese port 73. Dad's and Mug 74. Much 75. Chopin work 80. Holey Italian bread 82. Reluctant 83. Loyal servant 84. Press 85. 50-50 chance 88. "Hang on ... " 90. It may be up, with "the" 92. Opine, with "in" 93. Promoted to excess 94. Around 95. Trip odometer function 96. Throaty attention-getter 97. Aloe __ 98. Flower from the Greek for "rainbow" 100. Second place? 101. "A horse is a horse" horse 102. Cork's home 103. Absorbs, with "up" 105. Deviate from a course 107. Conk