L.A. Times Daily – Dec 17, 2023, Puzzle Solutions
L.A. Times Daily – Dec 17 2023
Clues | Answers |
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“Groovy” | NEATO |
“Homeland” org | CIA |
“I did it!” | TADA |
“I love everything you’ve done here” | NONOTES |
“I’ll drink to that” | AMEN |
“Star __” | WARS |
“Such a flirt!” | OHYOU |
“The Chi” creator Waithe | LENA |
“The curl experts” hair care brand | OUIDAD |
“This is your last warning!” | STOPNOW |
“__ did I just watch?” | WHAT |
Agcy. that oversees PubMed | NIH |
Alight | LAND |
Any minute now | SOON |
Awake before the alarm | UPEARLY |
Backstage crew | TECHS |
Ball caps or bottle caps | LIDS |
Basics | ABCS |
Before birth | INUTERO |
Big name in financial services | SCHWAB |
Bikini in the Pacific, e.g | ATOLL |
Bird that thinks it’s a restaurant critic? | EATINGCROW |
Bird that thinks it’s a television show host? | TALKINGTURKEY |
Blast letters | TNT |
Breads with pockets | PITAS |
Brewery shipments | CASES |
Burning | ONFIRE |
Cable network that’s a nonprofit | CSPAN |
Cambridgeshire cathedral city | ELY |
Canine that thinks it’s an old-timey news announcer? | CRYINGWOLF |
Caramel candy sold in a tube | ROLO |
Carpentry tools | SAWS |
Cheer syllable | RAH |
Comfort item for some tots | BLANKIE |
Consider, as an idea | ENTERTAIN |
Contacted privately, in a way | DMED |
Corvallis sch | OSU |
Cozy room | DEN |
Craps cube | DIE |
Cry from a Mega Millions winner | IMRICH |
Cry of recognition | AHA |
Deer sir | STAG |
Diarist Anaïs | NIN |
Don | PUTON |
Droplets on a cobweb | DEW |
Eager | AVID |
Easter Island’s country | CHILE |
Egyptian peninsula | SINAI |
Employee benefit option, for short | HSA |
Enters | HEADSIN |
Faith with a shrine in the Hanging Gardens of Haifa | BAHAI |
Fashion monogram | YSL |
Fez danglers | TASSELS |
Finished | OVER |
First Nations people | CREE |
Flanged fasteners | TNUTS |
Frozen solid? | ICE |
Give credit to | CITE |
Gives a zero-star review, say | TRASHES |
Gym | PECLASS |
Headwear sported by Rihanna on the cover of British Vogue | DURAG |
Healing succulent | ALOE |
Hunger for | CRAVE |
Inflict upon | DOTO |
Ingredient in some vegan marshmallows | AGAR |
Insects that think they’re outfielders? | CATCHINGFLIES |
Interpretation first provided for a SOTU address in 2021 | ASL |
Iotas | TADS |
Italian three | TRE |
Jam at a Pride Parade | GAYANTHEM |
Clues | Answers |
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Lambs that think they’re census takers? | COUNTINGSHEEP |
Light show? | REVUE |
Like some intricate designs | LASERCUT |
Little helper? | ASST |
LP or EP, e.g | DISC |
Lye, in a lab | NAOH |
Manchego source | EWE |
Marsupial that thinks it’s an actor? | PLAYINGPOSSUM |
Minor in Hollywood | DLIST |
Mjölnir wielder | THOR |
Musher’s conveyance | DOGSLED |
Mutation that removes a DNA sequence | DELETION |
Nasal irrigation vessels | NETIPOTS |
Observe | SEE |
Occasion to carry an umbrella | RAINYDAY |
Official religion of Djibouti | ISLAM |
Olympic swimmers Crocker and Thorpe | IANS |
Opposite of 33-Down | HOLA |
Opposite of 61-Across | ADIOS |
Partnerships | ALLIANCES |
Path finder in a Pathfinder, briefly | GPS |
Pedometer units | STEPS |
Phoebe or Cronus | TITAN |
Picture of Pluto? | CEL |
Pioneering ISP | AOL |
Pod used as a chocolate substitute | CAROB |
Possesses | OWNS |
Pot payments | ANTES |
Pound sounds | ARFS |
Prepares at a state fair, perhaps | DEEPFRIES |
Principle celebrated on the first night of Kwanzaa | UNITY |
Pt. of HDTV | DEF |
Put on the market | SELL |
Ran very slowly | OOZED |
Reads (over) | PORES |
Receive | GREET |
Red Monopoly piece | HOTEL |
Remove from the top of an inbox, say | UNPIN |
Rich cake | TORTE |
Ridiculous | INANE |
Runs very slowly | SEEPS |
Sets to zero, as a scale | TARES |
Silent stars? | MIMES |
Simplicity | EASE |
Single-masted sailboat | SLOOP |
Sired | BEGAT |
Snapple rival | NESTEA |
Snare | NET |
Social capital | CLOUT |
Spumante specification | BRUT |
Squirrel’s cheekful | ACORN |
Stores with Småland play areas | IKEAS |
Surrounded by | AMONGST |
Swim events | MEETS |
Syst. between Baltimore and D.C | MARC |
Tabbies that think they’re collies? | HERDINGCATS |
Takes a victory lap, maybe | TROTS |
Teensy bit | SMIDGEN |
Tourney favorite | TOPSEED |
Trouble | AIL |
Try again | REDO |
Turns blue? | SADDENS |
Used up | GONE |
Whole bunch | SCAD |
Willingness to support | BUYIN |
Wool type | MERINO |
Word after “Lavender” and “Purple,” in song titles | HAZE |
__ City: Pittsburgh | STEEL |
__ cucumber | SEA |
__-pedi | MANI |