Answer grid.
Theme: Welcome to LA-LA Land. Or LA-LA-LA-LA, I can't hear you. Or maybe it's L.A. LAW. Sometimes it's hard to come up with a theme title. Maybe I should have saved these for when I need them, but instead you get multiple choice today. Both words of two-word theme answers begin with the letters "LA" Hence the LA-LA, who was also a Teletubbie.
17. Whip-cracking cowboy of old films : LASH LARUE. I remember this guy from comic books.
21. Ethel, to Lucy : LAND LADY. Lucy and Dezi rented a brownstone on E. 68th St. from Fred and Ethyl Mertz, played by William Frawly and Vivian Vance, who hated each other in real life.
35. Sky blue : LAPIS LAZULI. This is an intensely colored blue gem stone, or the ultramarine pigment extracted from it. Also, a cloned daughter of Lazarus Long in Heinlein's epic novel, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE. I'm delighted to tell you my daughter is not my clone.
51. Wax-filled illumination : LAVA LAMP. The heat generated by the lamp bulb caused thermal currents in two viscous immiscible liquids, which would flow through and around each other. Since I remember the 60's, it's clear I did not experience them.
56. Victor's chuckle : LAST LAUGH. Indeed. He who laughs last, laughs best.
And the unifier. 29 D . '80s-'90s legal drama, and this puzzle's title : L.A. LAW. One more immensely popular T.V. show that I never watched.
Hi, gang, Jazzbumpa here - your tour guide through LA-LA Land. Let's set out and see what we can discover.
