PUZ, April 2020

[Glenn9999]

Today's puzzle.  (Enjoy it while this lasts, I may not get to do this much longer.)  As always, copy to TXT file and save and then load in Across Lite to get your PUZ file.

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Mon, Apr 13, 2020
<AUTHOR>
Kurt Krauss / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
PAST.DJS.JIGGER
SCOUTOUT.APIARY
YELLOWSUBMARINE
...IOS..RIDDLE.
PURPLERAIN.....
RTES..ANT.CHEST
AUS.SARI.DRAPER
GREENTAMBOURINE
UNWRAP.ALEX.LEM
ESSEX.ATE..POCO
.....BROWNSUGAR
.STATUE..OAT...
BLACKMAGICWOMAN
LAPTOP.INASNARL
OBSESS.STL.SOME
<ACROSS>
Time gone by
Wedding VIPs with playlists
Shot of liquor
Do recon at, as an enemy camp
Collection of beehives
Colorful Top 10 Beatles hit
Apple mobile platform
"When is a door not a door?," e.g.
Colorful Top 10 Prince hit
GPS suggestions
Bad picnic omen
Treasure container
Vienna's land: Abbr.
Delhi dress
Hamm's "Mad Men" role
Colorful Top 10 Lemon Pipers hit
Open, as a present
"Jeopardy!" first name
Moon lander, for short
English county on the North Sea
Absorbed, as a cost
A bit, in music
Colorful Top 10 Rolling Stones hit
__ of Liberty
Granola kernel
Colorful Top 10 Santana hit
Portable HP, say
All tangled up
Dwell constantly (on)
Home of MLB's Cardinals
A few
<DOWN>
College maj. for a future therapist
Trick taker, usually
Note after fa
Dutch floral export
Search for water
Gravy, on menus
Guy's name spelled with an alphabet sequence
Pack very tightly
Apple tablet
Encircle with a belt
O'Grady of "NYPD Blue"
Sea eagle
Corned beef on __
Home Depot purchase
Petrol pumper
Czech Republic capital
About-faces
Adjusts, as a hem
__ avis
Lively, in music
Central idea
Kramden laugh syllable
Literary wrap-up
Five Nations tribe
Aftershock
Munchies, in adspeak
Novak Djokovic's org.
Anonymous John
Before, old-style
Huffed and puffed
Length times width, for a rectangle
Hoaxes
Dirt road irregularities
Diet-friendly
Carpentry tools
Concrete section
Lights-out music
Part of un drame
Bout enders, briefly
Rain-__ gum
PX patrons
Bad result for a QB
Cultural Revolution chairman
Branch
Phillies' div.

[Glenn9999]

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Tue, Apr 14, 2020
<AUTHOR>
Debbie Ellerin / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
ADD..LIST.BRADS
LOOK.ANTE.JULEP
FIGnewTON.NILLA
ATSEA.WISconSIN
...ERDOC.AVE...
OTELLO..TSARIST
RIBEyesTEAK.SUR
TEED..OER..KLEE
HUR.PUBLiceNEMY
OPTIONS..EMOTES
...SKI.GFLAT...
DIShitOUT.ITALY
ORATE.MIDDLEMAN
TOGAS.IDID.DIKE
SNORT.TEXT..SEZ
<REBUS>
MARK ;
<ACROSS>
Do sum work
What Santa's making and double-checking, in song
Little nails
"__ out below!"
Up the __: raise the stakes
Minty Derby drink
*Longtime Nabisco cookie
Wafer named for its flavor
Totally lost
*Badgers' school
MD you don't need an appointment to see
NYC's Park, e.g.
Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean play
Like pre-revolution Russia
*Outback choice named for a bone
California's Big __
Angry, with "off"
Anthem contraction
"Twittering Machine" artist Paul
"Ben-__"
*One on a "Most Wanted" list
New car's bells and whistles, say
Overacts
Hit the slopes
Note above F
*Pour on the criticism
Pisa place
Speechify
Go-between ... and a hint to each set of circles
Roman robes
Britney Spears' "Oops!...__ It Again"
Flood barrier
Bullish sound?
Many a phone message nowadays
"__ who?"
<DOWN>
__ Romeo: sports car
"Stop stalling!"
Boxers and pugs
Practice in USA's "Suits"
Halved
Unflappable
Bills with Hamilton
Ryan Howard portrayer on "The Office"
Spoiler
Start of a Shakespearean title
Knish seller
Bridge
Prepared to propose
Ahead of schedule
Hombre's house
Forest female
Big name in garden products
Bottleneck consequence
Roger who wrote "Your Movie Sucks"
Actress Hatcher
Archipelago part
"So I was wrong!"
Long shots, in hoops lingo
Sheds many tears
__ Aviv
Secured with a bowline, say
Least speedy
Textbook section
Animation frame
Phishing line?
Beatty/Hoffman flop
Museum escort
N.J. army base
Trio in Fiji?
Monopoly token replaced by a cat
Palm starch
Cut out
French friends
Erie or Huron
Santa __ Valley: Cal. wine region
Banned pesticide

[phil262]

  Thanks

[Glenn9999]

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Mon, Apr 20, 2020
<AUTHOR>
Joe Kidd / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
GAPS.CICERO.APP
UHOH.EARNIT.LEI
MIXANdmaTCH.BEG
...ZEE.BROODERS
SONAR.SLY..ERAT
PROmdaTE.GRITTY
EAR..FIGURES...
CLamdIP.BadmOVE
...THREWON..VEE
MOBILE.HAdamEAL
IPAD..PAT.GIRLS
RETAILAT.BRA...
ANT.MADSCRAMBLE
GEL.UNRIPE.IRON
ERE.SEESAW.SOLD
<REBUS>
MARK ;
<ACROSS>
Open spaces
Ancient Roman orator
Tablet download
"This doesn't look good!"
"The old-fashioned way" to make money, in an old ad
Hawaiian welcome
Like a versatile wardrobe
Implore
Mark of Zorro
Gloomy thinkers
Sub detection device
Devious
The "E" in Q.E.D.
Partner for the big high school dance
Full of pluck
Place for a bud or a plug
Solves, with "out"
Seafood-based party bowlful
Chess game blunder
Hastily donned
Geese flight formation
Alabama seaport
Dined
2010 Apple debut
Butter serving
Young women
Sell for
Bikini top
Little hill crawler
Frantic rush, or a hint to each set of circles
Hair-stiffening stuff
Not ready to eat, as fruit
Fairway club
Before, in verse
Up-and-down playground fixture
Auction-ending word
<DOWN>
Chewing __
Sushi tuna
Quaint curse
Captain Marvel's magic word
Formally hand over
Beatles' "__ the Walrus"
Seafood item needing to be cracked
Way to get in
Puerto __
Roman emperor for three months
Physicist Einstein
View with interest
Pen for porkers
Unhip type
Reason-based faith
Blueprint detail, briefly
Daunting exam
Romance writer Roberts
R.E.M. frontman Michael
Blazing
Three-legged piano
Color of Hester Prynne's "A"
WWII naval threat
Crete's highest pt.
UPS competitor
Mind-matter link
__ marsala: Italian restaurant choice
Sniggler's catch
Doodad
Desert illusion
First game in a series
War movie scene
Taj Mahal city
Great Lakes natives for whom an Ohio county is named
Mission priest
Irreverent Don of talk radio
Turnpike division
Make, as tea
Tax whiz, briefly
Sis' sib
Online "Ha-ha!"
Come to a close

[SVKeeley]

Thanks again!