L.A. Times Daily - Jul 27 2021

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Clues Answers
"Spider-Man" trilogy director Sam RAIMI
"The African Queen" co-screenwriter James AGEE
"The lady __ protest too much, methinks": "Hamlet" DOTH
"To clarify ... " THATIS
*Comedic climax GAGLINE
*Keg buy in a pub BEERONTAP
*Ray Kinsella in "Field of Dreams," e.g BASEBALLFAN
*Site of an annual ball drop TIMESSQUARE
121-episode TV drama set on a mysterious island LOST
Acrylic fiber ORLON
Apparently are SEEM
Bach composition SUITE
Barely runs? STREAKS
Batting stats AVERAGES
Bernie's songwriting partner ELTON
Best ever, initially GOAT
Bonobo, for one APE
Charged particle ION
Citi Field team METS
Civil War soldier REB
Como una mujer con mucho dinero RICA
Damages MARS
Deckhand MATE
Electrical unit VOLT
ESP neighbor, to the IOC POR
Et __: and others ALII
Eva of "Green Acres" GABOR
Fairly brisk gait TROT
Fancy neckwear ASCOT
Flight tracker info ETA
Florida theme park EPCOT
Folksy Guthrie ARLO
French Revolution radical MARAT
Frozen rain SLEET
Half a pair ONE
Halley observation COMET
Haphazard way to run AMOK
Hawaii state bird NENE
Improved in value ENHANCED
Clues Answers
In the style of ALA
Item for a dinghy OAR
Judges DEEMS
Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams," e.g STAR
Kind of sax ALTO
Knights or rooks CHESSMEN
L.A.'s Staples Center, e.g ARENA
Less prevalent RARER
Lock on one's head TRESS
Love to pieces ADORE
Montreal's prov QUE
Mosque leader IMAM
Not good under-the-hood sound RATTLING
Old MGM rival RKO
Oscar, for one AWARD
Oxfam and CARE, for two NGOS
Paddled boat CANOE
Pan Am rival TWA
Phones in pockets or purses CELLS
Poetry competition SLAM
Polite refusal NOSIR
Quarterback's asset ARM
Rhett's last words ADAMN
Salinger title girl who says, "I'm extremely interested in squalor" ESME
Shocked sound GASP
Smart guy? ALEC
Somehow knows INTUITS
Sorbonne summers ETES
Source of fiber BRAN
Space ROOM
Subsequent to AFTER
Theater tier LOGE
Things of little consequence NITS
Tibetan honorific LAMA
Unkempt dos MOPS
Was understood, finally SANKIN
Wedding reception finale, and a feature of the answers to starred clues LASTDANCE
Working the case ONIT
Zilch NADA