L.A. Times Daily – Feb 7 2016 Sunday Crossword Solution
L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution – Feb 7 2016 Sunday
| Clues | Solutions |
| __ Gang | OUR |
| __ nouveau | ART |
| __ pal | GAL |
| 1988 NFL MVP | ESIASON |
| ’90s Toyota | PASEO |
| ’90s veep | AL GORE |
| Abbr. before a year | ESTAB |
| Acknowledge tacitly | NOD TO |
| Actor with a mohawk | MR T |
| Ages and ages | EON |
| Agricultural pioneer | DEERE |
| Aleve can alleviate one | ACHE |
| Alibi problems | GAPS |
| Andalusian city | GRANADA |
| Anklebone | TALUS |
| Asian lead-in | EUR |
| Astringent fruit | SLOE |
| Austria’s Railjet, for one (#33) | HIGH-SPEED TRAIN (HSH: Harry S. Truman) |
| Author Madeleine L’__ | ENGLE |
| Avatar extras | ETS |
| Back-country “contrary to” | AGIN |
| Badlands formation | MESA |
| Bar fruit | LIME |
| Barack’s 2010 High Court appointee | ELENA |
| Base fig. | NCO |
| Beanpole | SCRAG |
| Bits in a byte, e.g. | OCTET |
| Blew out | EXHALED |
| Board | GET ON |
| Bumpy | UNEVEN |
| By __ of: due to | DINT |
| Call on the carpet | HAUL UP |
| Centric start | ETHNO |
| Changes the play at the line of scrimmage (#21) | CALLS AN AUDIBLE (CAA: Chester A. Arthur) |
| Cheers actor Roger | REES |
| Cinch course | EASY A |
| Columnlike architectural piece | PILASTER |
| Conceptualizes | IDEATES |
| Could be more productive (#34) | DONT DO ENOUGH (DDE: Dwight D. Eisenhower) |
| Critical point | CROSSROADS |
| Cuddles | SPOONS |
| D.C. trip highlight (#27) | WHITE HOUSE TOUR (WHT: William Howard Taft) |
| Danish capital | KRONE |
| Derisive shout | HOOT |
| Do spadework | DIG A HOLE |
| Downed noisily | SLURPED |
| Drained of color | ASHEN |
| Drawing rooms | SALONS |
| Drinking song popularized by the Glenn Miller Orchestra (#36) | LITTLE BROWN JUG (LBJ: Lyndon B. Johnson) |
| End of the ’50s TV intro that began “This is the city” | IM A COP |
| Exchange of nasty spots | AD WAR |
| Fatty acid type | OLEIC |
| Fatuous | INANE |
| Fido’s find | ORT |
| Foolproof S | SURE |
| Football Night in America network | NBC |
| Former Saturn model | ION |
| French connections? | TETE-A-TETES |
| French possessive | TES |
| Gave it another go | RETRIED |
| Give a little | SAG |
| Got a four, probably | MADE PAR |
| Gp. that hired an orchestra for its “Eldorado” album | ELO |
| Great Scott! | EGAD! |
| Green wheels | ECOCAR |
| Greets, with “to” | SAYS HI |
| Half a patio pair | TONG |
| Hang out | HOBNOB |
| Has a life | EXISTS |
| High degree | NTH |
| Holly genus | ILEX |
| Icelandic literary works | EDDAS |
| Immortalized vessel of rhyme | URN |
| Invited | ASKED |
| Joule components | ERGS |
| Latin trio word | AMO |
| Law & Order detective Briscoe | LENNIE |
| Like many an infielder’s throw | SIDEARM |
| Like Pinocchio, eventually | REAL |
| Lotion additive | ALOE |
| M director Fritz | LANG |
| Max. | ULT |
| Mercedes rivals | BMWS |
| Missoula home | MONTANA |
| MLB scorecard entry | SAC |
| Most massive known dwarf planet | ERIS |
| Netmen’s gp. | ATP |
| Nicollette’s “Desperate Housewives” role | EDIE |
| No argument | TRUE |
| NutraSweet developer | SEARLE |
| NW Penn. airport | ERI |
| On a lark (#35) | JUST FOR KICKS (JFK: John F. Kennedy) |
| One may be named for a president | ERA |
| One who might be given the business | SON |
| Pacific salmon | COHOS |
| Papal garment | ORALE |
| Phased-out Apple messaging tool | ICHAT |
| Power agcy. created in 1933 | TVA |
| Prophet’s claim | ESP |
| Put a handle on | NAMED |
| Rains hard? | SLEETS |
| Retiring | DEMURE |
| Ridicule | DERIDE |
| Roma road | STRADA |
| Santa __ winds | ANA |
| Saskatchewan city | MOOSE JAW |
| Screening org. | TSA |
| Sea-Tac abbr. | ARR |
| Sentence sections | PHRASES |
| Shells alternative | PENNE |
| Skating legend | ORR |
| Snickered | TE-HEED |
| Snippy, say | RUDE |
| Some oscilloscope users: Abbr. | EES |
| Source of twigs called withies | OSIER |
| Soviet cooperative | ARTEL |
| Sports __ | BRA |
| Spotty affliction? | ACNE |
| Structural subj. | ANAT |
| Sweetie along the Seine | AMIE |
| Take the high way? | FLY |
| Telling tales | LYING |
| The Chronic Dr. | DRE |
| The Lion King baddie | SCAR |
| To follow | NEXT |
| Tossed about | STREWED |
| Toughness | SINEW |
| Trimming tools | EDGERS |
| Undermines | ERODES |
| Unkempt | MESSY |
| Unsettle | AGITATE |
| Vague number | ANY |
| Valuable deposit | ORE |
| Venomous venting | DIATRIBE |
| Verboten thing | NO-NO |
| Vietnam’s __ Dinh Diem | GO |
| Walk in the park | SNAP |
| When doubled, a common dolphinfish | MAHI |
| White wine aperitif | KIR |
| With one’s back against the wall | IN A JAM |
| Word on mail from Madrid | AEREO |
| Words from a returning traveler (#43) | GUESS WHOS BACK! (GWB: George W. Bush) |
| Words with letter or fax | SENT A |
| Yet, to Yeats | THO |