L.A. Times Daily - Oct 2 2020

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Clues Answers
"Of Mice and __" MEN
"Silent All These Years" singer Tori AMOS
"The Kominsky Method" co-star ARKIN
"Uh-oh. Better get ... " collision repair company MAACO
*Excelled at filling in historical timelines? KNEWYEARS
*Maximum number of jousters allowed in a Ren faire tournament? KNIGHTCAP
*One who really, really knows how to spin a yarn? KNITWIT
*Tree trunk? KNOTHOME
Amazon, for one SHIPPER
Ask to be excused, with "off" BEG
Baking soda target ODOR
Bar staple ICE
Brouhaha ADO
Chic retreat SPA
Country __ LANE
Deco master ERTE
Dossier letters AKA
Drunks SOUSES
Entomologist's tool NET
Fiber-__ cable OPTIC
George Eliot, e.g PENNAME
Hidden danger PITFALL
High-scoring club? MENSA
Honker in old comedy films HARPO
Immortal Detroit sportscaster Harwell ERNIE
It's often steamed RICE
Kate on the cover of Vanity Fair's 100th anniversary issue UPTON
Ky. army post FTKNOX
Made up (for) ATONED
Manual weed whacker HOE
Market aggressively PUSH
Minus LESS
Night light MOON
Not touch LETBE
Not-cute fruit UGLI
Old enough OFAGE
One of 26 in the Maldives ATOLL
Ones who never lose faith HOPERS
Poppy product OPIUM
Clues Answers
Primer type OILBASE
Put down DEMEAN
Puts on STAGES
Radiate EXUDE
Recipe verb ADD
Rum-soaked cake BABA
Set free UNCAGE
Short jacket BOLERO
Shout CRY
Showed surprise GASPED
Spare tire FLAB
Sportscast embellishment COLOR
Step on it PEDAL
Stretch often named for a music genre ERA
Suds HEAD
Supplemental health insurance MEDIGAP
Sushi bar supplier EELER
Teatro Costanzi premiere of 1900 TOSCA
Thoroughbred grandfather of Seabiscuit MANOWAR
Toll PEAL
Total alternative ... and a feature of the answers to starred clues? SPECIALK
Touched down ALIT
Trifle SOU
Trillion: Pref TERA
Twinings product PEKOE
United ONE
Unsubstantial MEAGER
Urgent order ATONCE
Wasabi-coated snack PEA
Wet blanket DEW
Whale also called a blackfish ORCA
What Ma knows well CELLO
Wild about INTO
Wolfgang Puck chain SPAGO
Word of woe ALAS
Yacht outing SAIL
Yarn TALE
__ basics BACKTO
__ discount ATA