LA Times Crossword January 18 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• General Hospital for one
  SOAP
• Care
  MIND
• Bogus offer
  SCAM
• Wheel shaft
  AXLE
• Admit
  COPTO
• Latin bear
  URSA
• Dont switch to memory foam
  KEEPITDOWN
• Softball clubs
  BATS
• SASE perhaps
  ENC
• R&Bs __ Hill
  DRU
• Data transfer unit
  TERABIT
• Vend
  SELL
• Laura of the Jurassic Park films
  DERN
• Pray we can hold on to the smaller one which is more comfortable than the king
  GODSAVETHEQUEEN
• Makes the first bid
  OPENS
• Srs. nest eggs
  IRAS
• Rain-__ gum
  BLO
• Pastures
  LEAS
• Brunch staple
  BAGEL
• Void partner
  NULL
• Coastal raptor
  ERN
• Mammoth
  HUGE
• HS class with a big reading list
  APLIT
• Please double-stitch the new sham
  MAKEASTRONGCASE
• Poet of ancient Rome
  OVID
• Rackets
  DINS
• See 59-Across
  BLOOMER
• PC file suffix
  EXE
• Xiao long __: soup dumpling
  BAO
• Sow sound
  OINK
• Nighttime heart-to-heart thats taken literally in this puzzle
  PILLOWTALK
• With 48-Across one who is eventually successful
  LATE
• Finding Dory setting
  OCEAN
• Perus capital
  LIMA
• Stretches between forces briefly
  DMZS
• Gender-fluid pronoun
  THEY
• Sculpting material
  CLAY

DOWN

• Quaff with sushi
  SAKE
• Rice paddy team
  OXEN
• Oscar winner Guinness
  ALEC
• Liveliness
  PEP
• Self-contained unit
  MODULE
• Wall St. announcement
  IPO
• Packaging meas.
  NTWT
• Signed sealed and delivered agreement
  DONEDEAL
• Outback maker
  SUBARU
• Cosmic cloud that resembles a crustacean
  CRABNEBULA
• Sparkling wine region
  ASTI
• Sloop pole
  MAST
• PC paste combo
  CTRLV
• Dot journal entries
  IDEAS
• Nonelective courses informally
  REQS
• Nine-digit IDs
  SSNS
• 64-Across creature of Jewish folklore
  GOLEM
• Word with glasses or gloves
  OPERA
• Novelist who wrote the Odd Thomas thrillers
  DEANKOONTZ
• Big cat in Life of Pi
  TIGER
• Otto Is realm: Abbr.
  HRE
• New York Harbors __ Island
  ELLIS
• Tropic Thunder actor
  NOLTE
• Place to watch Greyhounds
  BUSDEPOT
• Actors rep
  AGT
• Background figures in video games for short
  NPCS
• Actor Corey
  HAIM
• Vice president under 45-Down
  AGNEW
• Conjures
  EVOKES
• Beck album with the single Where Its At
  ODELAY
• President who resigned in 1974
  NIXON
• Daring
  BOLD
• Actor Neeson
  LIAM
• Buttery
  RICH
• Cut out early
  BAIL
• __ mater
  ALMA
• Approve
  OKAY
• Director Spike
  LEE
• Waterfalls trio
  TLC