Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Sunday March 29, 2020.

“Ben-Hur” author Wallace – LEW
“Cone of shame” docs – VETS
“Romanian Rhapsodies” composer – ENESCO
“Streamers” playwright – RABE
“The Egg and I” woman – MAKETTLE
“The Mod Squad” role – LINC
*Alternative to a pizza oven – BAKINGSTONE
*Breakfast order usually made with ham, onion and green pepper – DENVEROMELET
*Lead singer of a group whose first two Top 40 hits reached #1 – FrankieValli
*Mathematical abstraction with evenly spaced integers – NUMBERLINE
*Office group leader – TEAMMANAGER
*Online gaming attraction – VIDEOSLOTS
*Only occupant of Vostok I – YURIGAGARIN
15-Down singing style – FALSETTO
2014 World Series champs – GIANTS
90 degrees – DUEEAST
Antique shop transaction – RESALE
Apple storage place – ICLOUD
Approvals – YESSES
Beach, in Baja – PLAYA
Began to deal with – TOOKON
Being broadcast – ONTV
Birds that tell time? – CUCKOOS
Bit of mischief – LARK
Blow away – AWE
Brand created by a periodontist in the 1950s – ORALB
Calamares or caracoles – TAPAS
Cancún cash – PESO
Cause of yelling, often – IRE
Champ dethroned by Clay in 1964 – LISTON
Conception – IDEA
Court figs – DAS
D-Day craft – LSTS
Daring exploit – GEST
Defeatist’s words – ICANT
Designer Cassini – OLEG
Draft pick – IPA
Duel tool – EPEE
Dynamic start? – AERO
Elec., e.g – UTIL
Elevator name – OTIS
Elimination – REMOVAL
Encouraging words – OLES
Eric of “Pulp Fiction” – STOLTZ
Fails to be – ISNT
Farriers’ tools – ANVILS
Feed, as a fire – STOKE
Fluffy felines – ANGORAS
Former General Motors division – GEO
Forsaken – LORN
Futuristic toon dog – ASTRO
General on a menu – TSO
GI’s address – APO
Gift-wrapping times, perhaps – EVES
Goddess with cow’s horns – ISIS
Goes bad – ROTS
Gunpowder ingredient – NITER
Harsh – SEVERE
Hawaiian goose – NENE
Idle talk – GAB
In an imitative way – APISHLY
In __: as found – SITU
Incessantly – EVER
Iris aperture – PUPIL
Judging groups – PANELS
Kite user’s verb – FLY
Latin being – ESSE
Like gales vis-Г -vis breezes – STRONGER
Like some airports: Abbr – INTL
Like some mistakes – STUPID
Limited-term usage contract – LEASE
Line of clothing – INSEAM
Locker room shower, at times? – ESPN
Luthor, to Superman – FOE
Manitoba tribe – CREE
McGwire rival – SOSA
Metalworking union – WELD
Monopoly token – HAT
More irritable – TESTIER
Norse patron – OLAV
Not for kids – RRATED
Not full – UNSATED
Ode title starter – TOA
One working on a bench? – PIANIST
Orange __ – PEKOE
Part of a court game name – ALAI
Parts of a pound – PENCE
Passion – ZEAL
Peak seen from Messina – ETNA
Plot again – REMAP
Political initials since 1884 – GOP
Political opposition – DISSENT
Position of control – HELM
Program for future docs – PREMED
Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer – EGAN
Quarterback’s option – PASS
Quiets – ALLAYS
Rat – SNITCH
Reddish rash – ROSEOLA
Reef dweller – POLYP
Ring at the chapel – TOLL
Rotund man in a bright suit – SANTA
Salon coloring – DYE
Same old same old – RUT
Saturn or Mercury – CAR
Sews up – ICES
Shooting marble – STEELIE
Sign up – ENLIST
Snag – GLITCH
Special __ – OPS
Start to save? – ESS
Startup funds … and a hint to what’s hidden in the answers to the starred clues – SEEDCAPITAL
Strange quality – EERINESS
Street in Mason’s office – DELLA
Tax pro – CPA
Teaspoon equivalents, roughly – LUMPS
Those with clout – INS
Timbuktu’s land – MALI
Toledo’s lake – ERIE
Tolkien race – ENTS
Track wagers – EXACTAS
Travel docs – VISAS
TV planet – ORK
Twinge – PANG
Unofficial EU leaders group – GSIX
V8 relative – CLAMATO
Valuable rocks – ORES
Varieties – ILKS
Wafer brand – NILLA
What Brits cross to get here – THEPOND
When repeated, a cautioning word – NOW
Where to find a hero – DELI
Wherewithal – MEANS
Wild plum – SLOE
Wolf down – EAT
Word derived from the underworld god Orcus – OGRE
Wrangles – SPARS
Writer Welty – EUDORA
YA fiction reader – TEEN
Yawning – AGAPE
Zap – TASE
__ ale – PALE
__ cheese – BLEU
__ wrench – ALLEN