LA Times Crossword January 20, 2024, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Designing Women co-star
  POTTS
• Constellation critter
  URSA
• Might as well hashtag
  YOLO
• Watch part
  STRAP
• Got down to business
  SETUPSHOP
• Botanical opening
  STOMA
• Auto-graph?
  CARSELFIE
• Salmorejo base
  TOMATO
• Going around in circles say
  LOST
• German conjunction
  UND
• Encanto uncle
  BRUNO
• Some peaceful protests
  LIEINS
• Comment before He was dead the whole time hopefully
  SPOILERALERT
• Salt component
  ION
• Finest form
  AGAME
• Morally bankrupt
  EVIL
• Cooks up
  BREWS
• Ayesha Rascoes network
  NPR
• 4-Down quality
  UMAMI
• Informal get-together
  SESH
• Pool units
  GENES
• Langston Hughes Library designer
  LIN
• Let me recover from that
  INEEDAMOMENT
• Tears it up on the slopes
  SHREDS
• Stage
  PUTON
• Cable abbr.
  SHO
• Knob-handled tools
  AWLS
• Ish
  SORTOF
• Mane squeezes?
  PONYTAILS
• Serving a purpose
  UTILE
• Paws-itive homebody?
  INDOORCAT
• Cliffside town west of Málaga
  RONDA
• Squad
  TEAM
• Like freshly moisturized skin
  DEWY
• Bad look
  SNEER

DOWN

• Soft call
  PSST
• Inflatable pilot in Airplane!
  OTTO
• Ska instruments
  TROMBONES
• Wheat-free soy sauce
  TAMARI
• Flippers?
  SPATULAS
• Women of Troys sch.
  USC
• Rihannas As __ as You and Me
  REAL
• Time out in the park?
  STROLLERNAP
• Barbie owner?
  AUSSIE
• Fashion house co-founded by Pierre Bergé
  YSL
• Love that for you!
  OHFUN
• Cuts for Canadian-style bacon
  LOINS
• News stand?
  OPED
• Filmmaker Jackson
  PETER
• Donor type briefly
  ONEG
• Part of a halftime snack for many a soccer player
  ORANGESLICE
• Article
  ITEM
• Bros e.g.
  SIBS
• Toner target
  PORE
• Totally psyched
  AMPED
• Part of a heart-to-heart exchange
  VALENTINE
• You convinced me
  IMIN
• Trap collection
  LINT
• Sound like a fan
  WHIR
• Performances that might earn major props?
  USOTOURS
• Grounded birds
  EMUS
• Swell
  NEATO
• Part of PEI
  EDWARD
• Big name in salt
  MORTON
• Dazzled
  SHONE
• Passport producer
  HONDA
• Narrow peninsula
  SPIT
• Leaves on the side
  SLAW
• Tavern adjective
  OLDE
• Cause of quakes
  FEAR
• Hebrew for day
  YOM
• Total mess
  STY