December 18 2016 - L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answers
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "All that is or ever was or ever will be": Sagan | COSMOS |
| "Baseball is __ percent mental. The other half is physical": Yogi Berra | NINETY |
| "Doesn't do much for me" | MEH |
| "I see" | AHSO |
| "Mercury" coins | DIMES |
| "Oh gee" | DEARME |
| "The Da Vinci Code" priory | SION |
| "Very funny" | HAHA |
| "Wicked Game" singer Chris | ISAAK |
| "__ want for Christmas ... " | ALLI |
| '40s Giant manager | OTT |
| *"Sweet Love" R&B singer | ANITABAKER |
| *Annual postseason game played in Arizona | FIESTABOWL |
| *Be blessed by Lady Luck | GETABREAK |
| *Go all in | BETABUNDLE |
| *Lots opposite | NOTABIT |
| *Middle Eastern staple | PITABREAD |
| *Traveled to Europe, say | WENTABROAD |
| 122-Across user | SALON |
| 2016 FedExCup winner McIlroy | RORY |
| Alarm sounds | CLANGS |
| Alice's workplace | DINER |
| Aphrodite's love | ADONIS |
| Arnaz-Ball collaboration | DESILU |
| Author Wiesel | ELIE |
| Auto suspension component | STRUT |
| Big name in civil rights | CORETTA |
| Big name in gaming | HARRAH |
| Burden | ONUS |
| Capriciously, with "on" | AWHIM |
| Carbon compound | ENOL |
| Caribbean destination | ARUBA |
| Chaotic situation | TUMULT |
| Charlemagne's domain: Abbr | HRE |
| Close | ALMOSTTHERE |
| Clothing store section | GIRLS |
| Color named for a flower | LILAC |
| Comes clean about | ADMITS |
| Condescends | DEIGNS |
| Consumed | ATE |
| Court matter | RES |
| DDE's VP | RMN |
| Decisive parts of some NFL games | OTS |
| Demagogue, e.g | RANTER |
| Disguised, for short | INCOG |
| Distress letters | SOS |
| Does as humans do? | ERRS |
| Dresses down | CHASTISES |
| Earn | BRINGIN |
| Edmonton skaters | OILERS |
| Eponymous electrical units | FARADS |
| Explorer Ponce __ | DELEON |
| Fall behind | LAG |
| First-class | PRIMO |
| Fishing nets | SEINES |
| Floor in la maison | ETAGE |
| Former TWA owner | ICAHN |
| Former Uh-Oh! cookies, now called Golden | OREOS |
| Fried rice veggie | PEA |
| Fruit in a Poitier title | RAISIN |
| Future tweeter | EGG |
| Garden plot | BED |
| Gather bit by bit | GLEAN |
| Get fewer votes than | LOSETO |
| Grammar subject | USAGE |
| Half-baked | INSANE |
| Half-moon tide | NEAP |
| Ham's response | WILCO |
| Hangout for the Dark Knight, and for creatures in the answers to starred clues | BATCAVE |
| Hint of color | TINGE |
| Hunk's pride | BOD |
| Hurler's stat | ERA |
| Indian dignitaries | RAJAHS |
| Knighted composer | ELGAR |
| Korean imports | KIAS |
| Lacrosse position | GOALIE |
| Lascivious look | LEER |
| Last check, maybe | SEVERANCE |
| Lemon-lime drink | SPRITE |
| Like "Et tu, Brute?" | CAESAREAN |
| Like architectural drawings | INSCALE |
| Like the flight of a boomerang | ARCED |
| Liquid measures | LITERS |
| Little pigs, e.g | TRIO |
| Lock fixers | GELS |
| Louts | BOORS |
| Marketing of pieces? | ARMSSALE |
| Mars or Venus | ORB |
| More diaphanous | SHEERER |
| Mouthy munchkins | BRATS |
| Muckrakers' subjects | SCANDALS |
| NYC dance company | ABT |
| Often harmful bacteria | ECOLI |
| One way to sit | STILL |
| Order | BOSS |
| Per person | EACH |
| Pipe material | COB |
| Places to raise dough | OVENS |
| Poitier title role | TIBBS |
| Portraitist Charles and his artist sons | PEALES |
| Raw fish dish | SUSHI |
| Red choice | CLARET |
| Residential ending | ITE |
| Result of a leadoff single | ONEON |
| Rock formations that often meet in dark places, as illustrated here | STALACTITETIMGALATS |
| Scornful look | SNEER |
| Shapiro of NPR | ARI |
| Sherpa, usually | NEPALI |
| Shoulder neighbor | RIGHTLANE |
| Sigourney's "Gorillas in the Mist" role | DIAN |
| Skin coloring, briefly? | TAT |
| Some audio books | CDS |
| Space fillers? | GASSES |
| Spanish airline | IBERIA |
| Spice holders | RACKS |
| Spleen | IRE |
| Stadium cheer | RAH |
| Strauss waltz subject | DANUBE |
| Strong wind | GALE |
| Tabloid twosome | ITEM |
| Tease | RIB |
| Terrible turnout | NOONE |
| The Rams of the Atlantic 10 Conf | URI |
| Thumbs-ups | OKS |
| Title awarded only once to a New Englander (Connecticut, 1933) | MISSAMERICA |
| Title in a Poitier title | SIR |
| To be safe | INCASE |
| Track official | TIMER |
| Trials for aspiring D.A.'s | LSATS |
| Turtle of comics and film | NINJA |
| TV classic "__ Three Lives" | ILED |
| Type of air passage | NASAL |
| U.S. global monitor | NSA |
| Vampire's daybed | CASKET |
| Vibrant | ALIVE |
| Where Tibet is | ASIA |
| Yoko from Tokyo | ONO |
| Young __: political reformer | TURK |
| __ nerve | OPTIC |
| __ Sketch | ETCHA |