LA Times Crossword January 23 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Mike and __: fruit-flavored candy
  IKE
• Spanish small plates
  TAPAS
• Bungling
  INEPT
• Supervillain Luthor
  LEX
• On ones toes
  ALERT
• Fourth prime number
  SEVEN
• Fish-throwing Muppet __ Zealand
  LEW
• Wall Street fluctuation
  MARKETSWING
• Sambuca flavor
  ANISE
• Spanish grandmother
  ABUELA
• Unpaved side of the road
  SOFTSHOULDER
• Patella place
  KNEE
• Common first section of a menu familiarly
  APPS
• Food Network host Garten
  INA
• Jeans accent
  RIVET
• Architects creation
  DESIGN
• Take a different route and a hint to the circled letters
  CHANGEDIRECTION
• Grumble over
  BEMOAN
• Swamp reptile for short
  GATOR
• lol oops
  SRY
• Exceedingly
  OHSO
• Mountain climbers goal
  ACME
• Boundary of a black hole
  EVENTHORIZON
• See where ones coming from
  RELATE
• Like a couch potato
  INERT
• Overly cute So cute!
  TOTESADORBS
• Business VIP
  CEO
• Country singer Gill or writer/producer Gilligan
  VINCE
• Deceitfulness
  GUILE
• Meat in a Dr. Seuss title
  HAM
• Shutter strips
  SLATS
• Les __-Unis
  ETATS
• Player coming off the bench for short
  SUB

DOWN

• Let me find out
  ILLASK
• Passionate about
  KEENON
• Post-divorce party
  EXWIFE
• Brings under control
  TAMES
• Styled after
  ALA
• As __ our agreement
  PER
• Noahs boat
  ARK
• Fantastic deals
  STEALS
• Debate topic
  ISSUE
• More contemporary
  NEWER
• Like a supervillain
  EVIL
• Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame
  PENA
• Star Trek series for short
  TNG
• Not yet scheduled: Abbr.
  TBD
• Fondue fuel
  STERNO
• Safe space
  HAVEN
• Persuasive column
  OPED
• High-strung
  UPTIGHT
• Sundial three
  III
• Private aid gp.
  NGO
• I Hope You Dance singer Lee __ Womack
  ANN
• Tennis player Swiatek
  IGA
• Half a droid name
  DETOO
• Prefix with system
  ECO
• Use a colander
  STRAIN
• Ghosts network
  CBS
• Yonder lass
  HER
• Minnesota senator Klobuchar
  AMY
• Poison ivy reaction
  RASH
• High-strung
  ONEDGE
• Prague residents
  CZECHS
• The Island of Doctor __: H.G. Wells novel
  MOREAU
• Bury
  ENTOMB
• Put in power
  ELECT
• Bouquet holders
  VASES
• Pilots update briefly
  ETA
• Reacts to yeast
  RISES
• Bubble and churn
  ROIL
• One of four active volcanoes in Italy
  ETNA
• Den sets
  TVS
• Not trendy
  OUT
• Fjord kin
  RIA
• Simple sammie
  BLT