Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday November 3, 2020.
“All Things Considered” host Shapiro – ARI
“__ the Parents”: 2000 film – MEET
60 minuti – ORA
A bike lock may be shaped like one – UBOLT
Apt “it’s” anagram – TIS
Backside – REAR
Blacken a bit – SEAR
Caustic solution – LYE
Cheers at a bowl – RAHS
Chunky Monkey buy – PINT
CNN journalist Hill – ERICA
Coll. entrance exams – SATS
Conjure up – EVOKE
Cooks fill them – ORDERS
Debater for the opposition, at times – DEVILSADVOCATE
Eggs in a lab – OVA
Eyelid ailment – STYE
Faddish ’90s disc – POG
Finished the work – DIDIT
Fitness system incorporating martial arts – TAEBO
Fitting – APT
Fla. coastal city – STPETE
Get off the track – DERAIL
Gracefully slender – SVELTE
Homeric epic – ILIAD
Indeed.com listings – JOBS
Indy pacesetter – LEADCAR
Justice Kagan – ELENA
Kissers – LIPS
Like medicine not requiring a prescription – OVERTHECOUNTER
Like nostalgic art forms – RETRO
Like rice and potatoes – STARCHY
Like Rupert Grint’s hair – RED
Lively – JAUNTY
Loo – LAV
Lowlands – VALES
Luminous glow – AURA
Machu Picchu builders – INCAS
Magazine that has had Lena Horne and Michelle Obama on its cover – EBONY
Make up (for) – ATONE
Maker of Glide floss – ORALB
Middle of the “Able-Elba” palindrome – ERE
Military group – UNIT
Mozart rival – SALIERI
Name of 12 popes – PIUS
Of the flock – LAIC
Pacific island host of two “Survivor” seasons – PALAU
Part of a pound – OUNCE
Part of, as a plot – INON
Place sheltered from reality – IVORYTOWER
Poker player’s giveaway – TELL
Prickly shrub – BRIAR
Pub drink – ALE
Pub drink, briefly – IPA
R2-D2, for one – ROBOT
Read the riot act – REAMOUT
Ready to mate – INHEAT
Revered pop star, say – IDOL
River mammal – OTTER
Roughly – GIVEORTAKE
Screeners at ORD – TSA
See 35-Across – BALLOT
Skybox guest – VIP
Smear with ink? – LIBEL
SoCal cop squad – LAPD
Squeeze (out) – EKE
Stat for Clayton Kershaw – ERA
State school near L.A – UCSB
Stir-fry pan – WOK
Tibetan beast – YAK
Tony winner Judith – IVEY
Truth alternative, in a game – DARE
Wipe the slate clean – ERASE
With 37-Across, Election Day practice … and a hint to this puzzle’s theme – SECRET
Writer of poetic praise – ODIST
__ over the coals – RAKED
