Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Tuesday October 26 2021.
“It’s __!”: “Sold!” – ADEAL
“Waves of grain” color – AMBER
*Highest peak in the Alps – MONTBLANC
*Island known for its bars? – ALCATRAZ
*Tom Sawyer’s creator – MARKTWAIN
Adored singer, say – IDOL
ATM user’s need – PIN
Badly injured – MAIMED
Bar bills – TABS
Bedding – LINENS
Bee home – HIVE
Best of the hits – TOPTEN
Boots the ball – ERRS
Bureaucratic sticking points – REDTAPE
Camper’s quarters – TENT
Campus setting for Neil Young’s “Ohio” – KENTSTATE
Cockney greeting – ELLO
Conservatives’ foes, briefly – LIBS
Corned beef specification – LEAN
Delivered – BORN
Doesn’t have – LACKS
Dunks, Blazers and Jordans – NIKES
Family car – SEDAN
Frame of mind – MOOD
Green smoothie green, perhaps – KALE
Gripe – MOAN
Half a Latin dance – CHA
Happening – EVENT
Homer’s neighbor – NED
House overhang – EAVE
In a wistful way – SADLY
Inactive – IDLE
Indianapolis NFLer – COLT
Jazzy Fitzgerald – ELLA
Landed – ALIT
Like guitars and sitars – STRINGED
Linguistic group that includes Zulu – BANTU
Lip-__: mouths the words – SYNCS
Little one – TOT
Little ones – SPRITES
Little sucker? – VAC
Mellowed in a cask – AGED
More than nudge – SHOVE
Muppet who doesn’t use the pronoun “I” – ELMO
Not online, for short – IRL
Obsolescent doctor visit – HOUSECALL
One faking it – POSER
Opening strategy – PLANA
Opera solos – ARIAS
Parsley piece – SPRIG
Part of a play – ACT
Peruvian capital – LIMA
Polar masses – ICECAPS
Ragout or goulash – STEW
Remove, as the wall in Reagan’s demand to Gorbachev – TEARDOWN
Sign of a sellout – SRO
Slice the turkey – CARVE
Slides uncontrollably – SKIDS
Soft French cheese – BRIE
Somnology study – SLEEP
Spoken – ORAL
Starts to learn, as a hobby – TAKESUP
Steep rugged cliff – CRAG
Student’s measuring stick – RULER
Thrill – ELATE
Tree with cones – PINE
True partner – TRIED
Tyra Banks portmanteau for happy peepers – SMIZE
Viking trading post now a world capital – OSLO
Voting unit – BLOC
What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways – PENNAMES
When repeated, classic New Orleans refrain – IKO
Windshield shades – VISORS
Winter fall – SNOW
Word with run or drive – TEST
Zig or zag – VEER
__ de plume – NOM
__ Vegas – LAS
