Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Monday April 12, 2020.

“Amores” poet – OVID
“Any day now” – SOON
“CSI” part – SCENE
“Didn’t mean it” – SORRY
“Riverdance” dance – REEL
“Silas Marner” author – ELIOT
“Speed Racer” genre – ANIME
“That’s unfortunate” – TSK
“The Swedish Nightingale” Jenny – LIND
“Uh-huh” – ISEE
“__ Madness”: old anti-drug movie – REEFER
1/2 fl. oz – TBSP
2000 NBA MVP – ONEAL
28-Across, for eight seasons – LAKER
Abba of Israel – EBAN
African grassland – SAVANNA
Alloy containing carbon – STEEL
Artist who helped Hitchcock design a dream sequence for “Spellbound” – DALI
Back-to-zero button – RESET
Big-box stores, e.g – EMPORIA
Body __ – ART
Brand associated with NASA missions – TANG
Brewers’ ovens – OASTS
Bright at night – STARRY
Bright Orion star – RIGEL
Brunch dish – OMELET
Bud protector – SEPAL
Buffoon – ZANY
Casino disk – CHIP
Catches on to – GETS
Celeb with a TV “Garage” – LENO
Chitchats – GABS
Clanton gang leader – IKE
Clay-pigeon launcher – TRAP
Climactic film scene – CHASE
Clobbers with snowballs – PELTS
Closed (in) – ZEROED
Coarse woolens – TWEEDS
Colorful upholstery fabric – TOILE
Commonly abbreviated bit of Latin – IDEST
Concerning – INRE
Confession hearers – PRIESTS
Counts’ equals – EARLS
Crack up – SLAY
Delightful places – EDENS
Della’s notable facial feature? – STREETCHIN
Derive – INFER
Dermatologist’s concern – CYST
Determination as to which twin is born first? – NATALORDER
Dethroner of Foreman – ALI
Difficult – ORNERY
Doesn’t waste – USES
Dot on a radar screen – BLIP
Dried, pulverized onions? – CRYPOWDER
Either “Fargo” director – COEN
Elbowed – POKED
Elsinore natives – DANES
Escargot – SNAIL
Ex-White House Press Secretary Spicer – SEAN
Extension of an embargo? – BANRENEWAL
Eye part – RETINA
Far from polite – RUDE
Flea market deal – RESALE
Fuller’s geodesic creation – DOME
Game akin to bingo – BEANO
Gobs – ALOT
Got ready to stop – SLOWED
Greek X – CHI
Grow dark – LATEN
Guinness Book suffix – EST
Half hitch, e.g – KNOT
Hammerhead cousin – MAKO
Hard bargain driver – HAGGLER
Hayek’s “Frida” role – KAHLO
Helps the cause – GIVES
Hogwash – ROT
Home of the Ninja Turtles – SEWER
House of Henry VIII – TUDOR
Identifies in a Facebook photo – TAGS
Kipling’s “Lone Wolf” – AKELA
Kitchen supplies – POTS
Lendl of tennis – IVAN
Level-headed – SANE
Lilly of pharmaceuticals – ELI
Littlest littermates – RUNTS
Logician’s word – ERGO
Lower in status – DEBASE
Made off with – STOLE
Manicure sound – SNIP
Marsh bird – BITTERN
Mil or mile – UNIT
MLB Expo, since 2005 – NAT
Monopoly fees – RENTS
Muppet with a unibrow – BERT
Myriad – MANY
Needing a rinse – SOAPY
Negotiating asset – TACT
No longer in bed – ARISEN
North Pole explorer – PEARY
One way to work – ALONE
Operatic icon – DIVA
Orders to go – SENDS
Org. with an oft-quoted journal – AMA
Part of a hat trick – GOAL
Part of BYOB – OWN
Pitcher’s gem, in baseball lingo – NONO
Playwright Chekhov – ANTON
Poem about the letter nu? – ODEONAGRECIANN
Poke around – SNOOP
Potpourri quality – SCENT
Prep for surgery – SCRUB
Pressed through a sieve – RICED
Primatologists’ subjects – APES
Progressive Insurance icon’s layoff? – SACKOFFLO
Reason to march – CAUSE
Rebus animals – EWES
Release, as an odor – EMIT
Restaurant with skating carhops – SONIC
Ritzy spread – ESTATE
Roy G. Biv hue – VIOLET
Saint-Saëns work with a memorable cello solo – THESWAN
Set a high goal – ASPIRE
Sharpshooters’ aids – SCOPES
Silents vamp Bara – THEDA
Sleeping __ – CAR
Slough off – SHED
St. Peter’s Square figure – POPE
Stick around – STAY
Three movies about skeletons? – THEBONETRILOGY
Thrifty – FRUGAL
Toastmaster’s opening – INTRO
Torah holder – ARK
Trivial – PETTY
Tunesmiths’ org – ASCAP
Urban sunbather’s spot – ROOF
USAF VIP – GENL
Vientiane native – LAO
Violinist’s effect – VIBRATO
Warning to a sinner – REPENT
Where a displaced ex-hubby may sleep? – DIVORCECOT
Yawning, say – SLEEPY
__ basin – TIDAL
__ ring: encryption toy – DECODER
__ spray – NASAL