LA Times Crossword Answers 3 Jul 14, Thursday

LA Times Crossword Answers 3 Jul 14, Thursday

here is a full listing of all the answers:

Across
1. Just the right amount of tight SNUG
5. Hip-hop's Run-__ DMC
8. Significant OF NOTE
14. *Approach COME NEAR (CO ME NE AR)
16. *Overly ornate FLORID (FL OR ID)
17. Beef at the dinner table RIB ROAST
18. Provoke FOMENT
19. Sports drink suffix -ADE
20. Healing aid, briefly TLC
21. Some August babies LEOS
22. Cyrus the Great's domain PERSIA
24. *Messing with one's head MIND GAME (MI ND GA ME)
28. Right in an atlas EAST
29. Author Dahl ROALD
31. Cease, with "off" LAY
32. High-tech debut of 1981 IBM PC
34. Butcher's offering T-BONE
36. What the answers to starred clues are comprised of US POSTAL CODES
40. Dressing vessel CRUET
41. "Oh, yeah!" BOOYA!
42. Minor concern, maybe AGE
43. In a way, informally SORTA
45. Cries of pain YOWS
49. *Tom Wolfe coinage for the 1970s “ME” DECADE (ME DE CA DE)
52. "60 Minutes" first name LESLEY
54. Choice usually made secretly VOTE
55. Minute measures: Abbr. CMS
56. Rehab concern, familiarly DTS
57. Like old videos GRAINY
60. Zealous to the extreme WHITE-HOT
62. *Drink of the gods NECTAR (NE CT AR)
63. *Simple forecasting aid WIND VANE (WI ND VA NE)
64. Eucharist plates PATENS
65. Suffix for Brooklyn or Manhattan -ITE
66. "Lemme __!" AT ‘EM

Down
1. Tough spot SCRAPE
2. "I'm stumped" NO IDEA
3. Earthy colors UMBERS
4. Angela Merkel's country: Abbr. GER
5. *Sell weaponry DEAL ARMS (DE AL AR MS)
6. Like the days of the week, in Span. MASC
7. Old PC component CRT
8. Transgress OFFEND
9. __ insurance FLOOD
10. Asian menu assurance NO MSG
11. Gold or silver source ORE
12. Pie holder TIN
13. D.C. summer setting EDT
15. "The Little Red Hen" denial NOT I
21. Short, for short LIL
23. Michael of R.E.M. STIPE
24. Gruesome MACABRE
25. Hand lotion ingredient ALOE
26. __ best friend MAN’S
27. Major TV logo EYE
30. Go (for) OPT
33. AI game competitor BOT
34. Play (with) TOY
35. Annual celebrations, casually B’DAYS
36. Impulse URGE
37. Took to court SUED
38. Housing plan unit LOT
39. *Appalachian resource COAL MINE (CO AL MI NE)
40. Rotating piece CAM
43. Half-goat creatures of myth SATYRS
44. Lines of praise ODE
46. Dated OLD-HAT
47. Sloppy kiss WET ONE
48. Nervous __ SYSTEM
50. Cybernotice for a party E-VITE
51. Late-night host O'Brien CONAN
53. Business sign abbr. ESTD
55. IOU CHIT
57. Econ. yardstick GNP
58. "In Dreams" actor Stephen REA
59. Fake being ACT
60. Doughboy's conflict, briefly WWI
61. Actress Mendes EVA