L.A. Times Daily - Aug 8 2021

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"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" author Loos ANITA
"The Cocktail Party" playwright ELIOT
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" actress Patricia NEAL
"__ quam videri": 35-Down motto ESSE
*"A Clockwork Orange" antihero ALEX
*Aconcagua's range ANDES
*Biblical possessive THY
*Closely match PARALLEL
*Dangerous strain ECOLI
*Gene variant ALLELE
*Ghost PHANTASM
*It's next to nothing ONE
*Norse mythology battle used as the subtitle of a 2017 "Thor" film RAGNAROK
*Place abuzz with activity APIARY
*Put on the books ENACT
*Sarah of "Suits" RAFFERTY
*Slip through the cracks OOZE
*Take by force HIJACK
*Traffic stoppers BRAKES
*Wine ingredient? LONGI
1994 A.L. batting champ Paul ONEILL
1994 Olympic gold medalist skater Baiul OKSANA
1994 rival of Nancy TONYA
A-line line SEAM
Absinthe flavoring ANISE
Agatha Christie's "The __ Murders" ABC
Allegro non __: fast, but not too fast TROPPO
Anchorage for a galleon COVE
Appraise RATE
Attract DRAWIN
Bananas or nuts LOONY
Basic card game WAR
Bench warmer? BOTTOM
Benefit AVAIL
Big name in movies? IMAX
Bishopric cousin CANONRY
Blind segment SLAT
Blood lines VEINS
Body with arms? TROOP
Boston-based sportswear giant REEBOK
Brando role in 1978's "Superman" JOREL
Bruce Wayne lives in one MANOR
Business for many Amazon explorers? ETAIL
Canapé spread PATE
Carpe __ DIEM
Circle ratios PIS
Clumsy boats ARKS
Conditionally let out PAROLE
Cool HIP
Cornfield sight STALK
Critical layer OZONE
Cutting-edge brand? ATRA
Daredevil's stock-in-trade PERIL
Defies authority REBELS
Derby, perhaps RACE
Diamond pro UMP
Diamonds, in slang ROCKS
Egg-shaped OVOID
Elon University st NCAR
Fast time LENT
Fermented honey drink MEAD
Fine-tuned TWEAKED
Fog modifier DENSE
From square one ANEW
Fulfilled KEPT
Gas pump fractions TENTHS
Go back over RETRACE
Goddess with a throne headdress ISIS
Grooves made by a saw KERFS
Gun REVUP
Half a Balkan country BOSNIA
Clues Answers
Half the taijitu symbol YANG
Hotshot ACE
Iditarod terminus NOME
Insignificant MERE
JFK arrival, once SST
Junk bond rating CCC
Key of Schubert's "Trout Quintet" AMAJOR
Keys ISLES
Krypton, but not Tatooine ELEMENT
Like aftershave after a shave BRACING
Location PLACE
Magnum stopper CORK
Mann of 'Til Tuesday AIMEE
Mark down, maybe RELABEL
Means of access DOOR
Merry-go-round tune LILT
Mideast leader EMIR
Minty cocktail JULEP
Monetary "p" PENCE
Mountain nymph OREAD
Musician Redbone LEON
Ocasek of the Cars RIC
On pins and needles EDGY
Oval-shaped wind OCARINA
Part of A.D ANNO
Pigment used in rustproof primer paints REDLEAD
Pointless INANE
Poli-__ SCI
Polished URBANE
Prefix with -aholic CHOC
Problematic to the max THORNIEST
Product with lots of shapes ... or what each of four black squares effectively is? ANIMALCRACKER
Put out EMITTED
Race distance MILE
Racer Yarborough CALE
Red dessert wine PORT
Rib-tickler JOKE
Ringling Brothers brother OTTO
Roasting rod SPIT
Roasts, in a way KIDS
Rounding phrase ORSO
Samurai lacking a master RONIN
Security problem LEAK
Sent raspberries to? JEERED
Shrink ANALYST
Sky-high gp USAF
South American river with a crocodile namesake ORINOCO
Started up again RESUMED
Stayed LIVED
Stone set alone SOLITAIRE
Sundae alternatives CONES
Superheroes always have them NEMESES
Text letters often in blue URL
They come with strings attached YOYOS
They're seen among the reeds OBOISTS
Time co-founder LUCE
Traditional koa wood product UKULELE
Tribal emblem TOTEM
Tried hard STRIVEN
Triple __: liqueur SEC
Umbrella component RIB
Unworthy of BENEATH
Vientiane native LAO
Washington city where Olympic skiers Phil and Steve Mahre were born YAKIMA
Winning game after game ONATEAR
Winter Palace resident TSAR
World Cup "Way to go!" OLE
WWII weapon STEN
Yitzhak's predecessor GOLDA
__ donna PRIMA
__ officer NAVAL