Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday December 16, 2020.
“Inferno” poet – DANTE
“Later!” – SEEYA
“The Odd Couple” roommate – OSCAR
“Yikes!” – JEEZ
16th-century English queen – MARYI
63-Across work – SYMPHONY
A few – SEVERAL
Artist’s quarters – LOFT
Auto club service – TOW
Autobahn auto – AUDI
Basics – ABCS
Bony Olive – OYL
Bracelet fastener – CLASP
Cher and Sade, vocally – ALTI
Chopped side dish – SLAW
Dickens sycophant – HEEP
Facebook action – SHARE
Fencing blades – EPEES
Gaelic language – ERSE
German steel city – ESSEN
Gold rush storyteller – HARTE
Greek vowels – ETAS
Group self-pic, in slang – WEFIE
H.S. proficiency tests – GEDS
Important gem in Oz – EMERALD
Indefinitely suspended – ONHOLD
It makes cents – ZINC
It’s usually not a hit – SIDEB
Itemize – LIST
Japanese mushroom – ENOKI
Key of the 26-Across 39-Down: Abbr – DMIN
Laryngitis docs – ENTS
Like cotton candy – SPUN
Literate – WELLREAD
Marks for removal – DELES
Ming most look up to – YAO
Mortgagee’s option, for short – REFI
Musical symbol – CLEF
Musical work – OPUS
New Haven school – YALE
Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down – PASTORAL
Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down – CHORAL
Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down – EROICA
North Sea county – ESSEX
Numerically, 63-Across’ C-minor 39-Down – FIFTH
Oath beginning – ISWEAR
Offered an arm to – ESCORTED
Ohio or Mississippi: Abbr – RIV
Openly declare – AVOW
Piccata meat – VEAL
Pipe plastic – PVC
Quotable Yankee, familiarly – YOGI
Record material – VINYL
Remains – STAYS
Salon item – BRUSH
Seasonal aides – ELVES
See 17-Across – BEETHOVEN
Some traffic court cases: Abbr – DWIS
Spread throughout – PERMEATE
Started, as a co – ESTD
Sticky stuff – ADHESIVE
Story lines – ARCS
Stuffed Jewish dish also called kishke – DERMA
Summer coolers, briefly – ACS
System/360s, e.g – IBMS
Tarzan raisers – APES
The M in BLT? – MAYO
Tolkien trilogy, to fans – LOTR
Tony winner Menzel – IDINA
Toon crime fighter __ Possible – KIM
Touchdown points – SIX
Unverified word – RUMOR
Watched closely – EYED
Web site – ATTIC
With 63-Across, musician born 12/16/1770 – LUDWIGVAN
XK-E, for short – JAG
__ humor: grumpy – INBAD
__ Vegas – LAS
