L.A. Times Daily - Oct 20 2021

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Clues Answers
"Friendly Skies" co UAL
"Hair" styles AFROS
"Macbeth" role HAG
*"Dilbert," e.g COMICSTRIP
*Give the go-ahead from the control tower CLEARFORTAKEOFF
*Lawn mower's spot GARDENSHED
*Slapstick slipper? BANANAPEEL
*Well-worn, as carpets THREADBARE
10-time MLB All-Star ICHIRO
Actress Blakley RONEE
Air rifle ammo BBS
Atlanta-to-Miami dir SSE
Atlas box INSET
Ballpoint, e.g PEN
Barrie's nonconformist pirate SMEE
Behind DUFF
Belfry hangers BATS
Big time ERA
Bro or sis SIB
Broadcasting ONAIR
Bunt on a scorecard SAC
Campus VIP PROF
Chair part ARM
Chewy candy LICORICE
Common awards word BEST
Cooling rocks ICE
Core concepts GISTS
Cunning SLY
Danger PERIL
Dating letters BCE
Desert partly in northern China GOBI
Diddley and Peep BOS
Entr'__ ACTE
Film noir protagonist ANTIHERO
Follow closely DOG
Forrest's shrimp-loving friend BUBBA
Fowl pole ROOST
French sea MER
Giant among speakers BOSE
Clues Answers
Greek Mars ARES
Groovy FAB
i follower POD
In vogue CHIC
Internet connection MODEM
Kenan Thompson is its longest-tenured cast member, briefly SNL
Least distant NEAREST
Like fishhooks, usually BARBED
Loads from lodes ORES
Loi maker SENAT
Lose interest in TIREOF
Marine steering mechanisms FINS
Mariners' park, familiarly and formerly SAFECO
Metz milk LAIT
Minn. college STOLAF
Mont Blanc summer ETE
Online money ECASH
Oven pan ROASTER
Overly fussy, say ANAL
Patronize, as a restaurant EATAT
Periodic table items ELEMENTS
Put a thin cut in SLIT
Remove, as clothing ... and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues DOFF
Russo of "Tin Cup" RENE
Scoville __: chili pepper heat measurement UNIT
Steamed IRATE
Stuff thrown overboard JETSAM
Suggested, flavorwise TASTEDOF
Swiss Miss product COCOA
Tap site KEG
Tiny ITSY
To and __ FRO
To the __: maximally HILT
Triangular sails JIBS
URL ending of a 37-Across EDU
Uses a bucket in a boat BAILS
Uses Pledge, say DUSTS
Writer Harte BRET
__ Elton John SIR