L.A. Times Daily - Jul 21 2021

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Clues Answers
"Amen!" ... or a hint to the start of four other long answers ILLSECONDTHAT
"Dred" novelist STOWE
"Kidding!" letters LOL
"Start the music!" HITIT
"The Black Cat" author POE
"Told __!" YOU
1974 musical based on a 1900 novel, with "The" WIZ
2010 Barack appointee ELENA
Ancient trio MAGI
Associate with TIETO
Belgian expressionist James ENSOR
Bit of body ink TAT
Black cat, to some OMEN
Bothered a lot, with "at" ATE
Braille is one BINARYCODE
Burst forth SPEW
Cabin or castle ABODE
Camera letters SLR
Carrier to Tokyo ANA
Chard alternative ZIN
Cheap STINGY
Color HUE
Cosmetician Adrien ARPEL
Crude metals ORES
Cue followers ARS
Diamond Head locale OAHU
Drop off for a bit NAP
eBay offers BIDS
Either Bush 43 daughter TWINSISTER
Gaelic gal LASS
Heart-y message? LOVENOTE
Hoi __ POLLOI
Idris of "Luther" ELBA
JFK board data ETAS
Journal's end? ESE
Lake formed by the Hoover Dam MEAD
Language in which "w" and "y" are considered vowels WELSH
Locker room powders TALCS
Lox variety NOVA
Clues Answers
Meter preceder ODO
Mine, in Montreal AMOI
Modern customer support option LIVECHAT
Mole, perhaps DOUBLEAGENT
Numbs BLUNTS
Olympic event featuring death spirals PAIRSKATING
Pacific weather phenomenon LANINA
Palindromic woman's name ANNA
Parrot APE
Persuasive pieces ESSAYS
Pizza pieces? ZEES
Political pundit Peggy NOONAN
Potterverse courier OWL
Prepare to get up from one's plane seat UNBELT
Quite a lot TONS
Reacts in fear, as a horse REARSUP
Reason for a restart UPDATE
Reveres IDOLIZES
Risk-offsetting investments HEDGES
Rival VIE
Rolls of money WADS
See 68-Across PEKOE
Señora Perón EVA
Small advantage EDGE
Smokes, briefly CIGS
Sooner State city ENID
Spectrum maker PRISM
Stun DAZE
Sucker for a flame MOTH
Upper limit CAP
Vivid dye AZO
Volleyball scoring unit SET
Water whirled EDDY
When tripled, "et cetera" YADA
With 56-Down, type of black tea with another color in its name ORANGE
Wonderstruck AWED
__ hit: baseball single ONEBASE
__ Savitskaya, first woman to perform a spacewalk SVETLANA
__ Tomé and Príncipe SAO