LA Times Crossword December 23 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• Common foundation
  SLAB
• Singer depicted in the biopic Walk the Line
  CASH
• 1980s cloning target
  IBMPC
• Coil in a garden
  HOSE
• The __ for home lives in all of us: Angelou
  ACHE
• Half a comedy duo
  MEARA
• *Begin to chase with off
  TAKEAFTER
• Your tables ready buzzer
  PAGER
• Illuminates
  EDIFIES
• Seductive quality
  ALLURE
• One ensuring accuracy on a grand scale?
  TUNER
• *Try to delay with for
  PLAYTIME
• Vare Trophy org.
  LPGA
• Praises
  LAUDS
• Up to briefly
  TIL
• Start of an adage about humanity
  TOERR
• Solar __
  SYSTEM
• Pivotal element and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer?
  CENTERPIECE
• Emergency signals
  FLARES
• WWII Polish resistance hero Sendler
  IRENA
• Illuminated
  LIT
• Country roads
  LANES
• Coarse file
  RASP
• *Gaining prominence with and
  UPCOMING
• Revere alternative
  BYSEA
• Rumbled as thunder
  ROLLED
• Less tender
  TOUGHER
• McCartney of Wings
  LINDA
• *Do some creative accounting with the
  COOKBOOKS
• Broke off
  ENDED
• Exhort
  URGE
• Layered cookie
  OREO
• Torment
  AGONY
• Walked (on)
  TROD
• Laura of Big Little Lies
  DERN

DOWN

• Type of village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories
  SHTETL
• Pack as a moving van
  LOADUP
• __ price
  ASKING
• Tower of London figure
  BEEFEATER
• Cozy eatery
  CAFE
• Show parts
  ACTS
• Pop duo __ & Him
  SHE
• Announce grandly
  HERALD
• Intimate
  IMPLY
• Corker
  BEAUT
• The Treachery of Images painter
  MAGRITTE
• Early delivery
  PREEMIE
• Wheels
  CAR
• Cause of inflation
  AIR
• Scottish girls
  LASSIES
• Good vibrations?
  PURRING
• Dartboard wood
  ELM
• Leaves be
  LETSLIE
• All bets __ off
  ARE
• Common Scrabble tile value
  ONE
• Nikkei index currency
  YEN
• Impressive and then some
  SCARYGOOD
• Tower for a pet who likes to climb and hide
  CATCONDO
• Not post-
  PRE
• Target of an annual vaccine
  FLU
• Facial piercing
  LIPRING
• Scene-ending phrase
  ANDCUT
• Washed up maybe
  ASHORE
• One on a quest
  SEEKER
• Marrying sort?
  PARSON
• Of yore
  OLDEN
• Word said with a curtsy
  MLADY
• Buster
  BUB
• Like drive-thru orders
  TOGO
• Authorized
  OKED
• Place to ruminate
  LEA
• Catch-22 pilot who crashes repeatedly
  ORR