PUZ, January 2020

[trauer1282]

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Wed, Jan 29, 2020
<AUTHOR>
John Guzzetta / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
FLAT.BUILT.CLAY
DORA.INDIA.LIME
RACKETCLUB.IVAN
...ENSUE..SNIT.
TYPOS.TRICKKNEE
BEAV....FLO.GUM
STREP.ASNER.PRO
..TRAPSHOOTER..
PAY.RESET.SCOTS
EPA.ODE....LOOK
CONEDISON.HEFTY
.LIVY..LOGIC...
COMA.FALSESTART
EGAD.ALIEN.IKEA
LYLE.REESE.CAMP
<ACROSS>
Like much desert terrain
Constructed
Modeling material
Latina toon explorer
Bay of Bengal nation
Ceviche flavoring
Exclusive place for tennis
Slavic John
Come next
Tizzy
Keyboard slips
Unpredictable leg joint
Cleaver nickname
Rapper __ Rida
Balls in coin-op machines, say
Throat condition
Ed who plays Santa in "Elf"
Con's opposite
Skeet enthusiast
Salary
Game console button
Mary, Queen of __
Air quality watchdog: Abbr.
Poem of praise
"The thing is ... "
Big Apple power company
Big and strong
Roman who wrote "The History of Rome"
Puzzle-solving asset
Unconscious state
Gridiron infraction, and a hint to 17-, 25-, 37- and 49-Across
Quaint oath
Otherworldly
Rooms to Go rival
Singer Lovett
One with piece offerings?
Sleep in a tent
<DOWN>
Yalta Conf. attendee
Mauna __ Observatory
Rainbow shape
Corporate acquisition
Drill parts
Like some directors' editions
Car waiting at the airport, maybe
Lucy who voices Master Viper in the "Kung Fu Panda" films
It might be opened in a bar
Sound of toasts
Walking, talking example
Hobbyist
Urge
USCG rank
Hybrid apparel
"Miracle Workers" (2019) network
"Is it soup __?"
Fun-loving type
On the other hand
Geppetto's goldfish
Angsty rock genre
Send-up
Burros
"That's all __ wrote"
Spa treatment, for short
Drawn from various sources
Upper-bod muscle
Words of regret
Tyke on a trike
Where thunderheads form
Get away from
Skateboard stunt
Circus clown's collection
"__ Dark Materials": HBO fantasy series
Code carrier
Animation frame
Distant
SweetWater Georgia Brown, e.g.
Alias letters
Sleep cycle
Put to use

[phil262]

Thanks Mr 1282! I guess Mr 9999 took the day off.

[trauer1282]

A chance for me to stand in for the legendary Glen9999!  I hope he's enjoying himself somewhere today.

[stmv]

The .txt file for the LAT 29 January puzzle has a mistake: row 4 of the grid should have only two black squares after the first word (not three), and there should be a black square at the end.  I would post a correction, but when I try to make the obvious change AcrossLite no longer can read the file for some reason.

[trauer1282]

I am soooo sorry about that.  The puzzle is now fixed above.

Glenn9999 has a vastly superior process for creating the puzzle input using a script. I use a more brute force approach that is error-prone, as today's effort illustrates. Again, so sorry for not spotting those errors in my initial proofreading, and I'll be much more careful next time I try to stand in for Glen9999!

[Glenn9999]

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Thu, Jan 30, 2020
<AUTHOR>
Dan Margolis / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
ACAI.NOSE.SPURS
LOCO.EBON.AESOP
EDAM.ROAD.DRAMA
..POWDEREDSUGAR
HOPTO...ANA.ENE
THEHUMANRACE...
TAL.KALE..KEGS.
PILE.RIGHT.RUPP
.RASH..RARA.SRA
...PENCILERASER
ATM.RIO...ILIED
CHOCOLATECAKE..
MAORI.RAGA.ADEN
ENDON.SIGN.LUGE
SKYPE.ELSE.IPOD
<ACROSS>
Healthful berry
Sommelier's concern
San Antonio cagers
Bananas
"... the __ blackness of the floors": Poe
"The Fox and the Grapes" storyteller
Dutch cheese
Way to go
Queen's milieu
"That's fine"
Get going
"Knives Out" Golden Globe nominee de Armas
Lansing-to-Flint dir.
"That's all folks"
1960s chess champ Mikhail
Mustard family member
They're tapped
Bundle
On the money
Kentucky coach with 876 victories
Foolhardy
__ avis
Mex. title
"That's not the point"
Withdrawal site
Carnival city
Words before "so sue me"
"That's rich"
Polynesian language
Sitar music
Yemen's Gulf of __
Conclude with
Indicator
Feet-first race
Video chat choice
"What __ is new?"
MP3 player
<DOWN>
Cream __
Fish that's salted and dried to make bacalao
Like Pentatonix numbers
Flying insect with prominent eyespots
Bookish type
Wind up on stage?
Fly like an eagle
Win over
Hapless sort
Ucayali River country
Grammarian's concern
Type type
Just-in-case item
"The Caine Mutiny" novelist
Paternity identifier
Web address letters
Atheist activist Madalyn
Deface
"When We Were Kings" boxer
Pola of the silents
Poetic contraction
Dressed to the nines
Wild period
Uncommon sense
Actor Holbrook
Amount past due?
Ranch bud
Wonder Woman, for one
Plot-driving song, perhaps
Zilch
Rough around the edges
High-pH compound
Summits
"__ goodness"
Temperamental
Edit for size, as a photo
Follow
Confident juggler's props
Candy __
It may need a boost
Flanders who inspired the band Okilly Dokilly