L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2020

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Clues Answers
"Baby back" morsel RIB
"Finally, it makes sense" ISEENOW
"Oh, dear" AHME
"Yabba dabba __!" DOO
'50s candidate Stevenson ADLAI
*"Balderdash!" HORSEFEATHERS
*Core exercise starting from a lateral lying position SIDEPLANK
*Hotel late-night meal source ROOMSERVICE
*Remote file-storage option CLOUDBACKUP
Actress Meryl STREEP
Antlered bugler ELK
At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go AFTERDARK
Aver STATE
Bailed-out insurance co AIG
Balloon demise sounds POPS
Bottom line SUM
Caboose's place REAR
Candy shape CANE
Car service choices UBERS
Central banking syst., with "the" FED
Chairs a meeting PRESIDES
Chit IOU
Consider DEEM
Dangerously involved INDEEP
Director DuVernay AVA
Elgar's "__ and Circumstance Marches" POMP
Fairy tale opener ONCE
Furry "Star Wars" creatures EWOKS
Garden tools HOES
Gave the nod OKD
Hardest to spot SUBTLEST
Hitter's stat RBI
Hung jury result, often RETRIAL
Indian spice mix MASALA
Israeli coin SHEKEL
Java JOE
Killer whale ORCA
La-la preceder TRA
Clues Answers
Landed ALIT
Like eta and zeta GREEK
Little drinks NIPS
Lotion additive ALOE
Mercenary HIREDGUN
More robust HEARTIER
Multiple choice choices ABORC
Nighties PJS
Ones with regrets RUERS
Outdated collective noun MAN
Page-bottom abbr CONTD
Part of IPA ALE
Performed surgery OPERATED
Pigeons, e.g COOERS
Pitch that curves downward SINKER
Place for card games TABLETOP
Probe (into) DELVE
Rapper __ Nas X LIL
Real riot HOOT
Rowing tool OAR
Sargasso Sea spawner EEL
Shopping spot MART
Sign of sadness, maybe TEAR
Single-handed rebuke SLAP
Sportage automaker KIA
Start of a golf hole TEE
Stopped the ship by facing the wind LAIDTO
Tan cousin BEIGE
To and __ FRO
Unwelcome look LEER
URL bit DOT
Went by bike or horse RODE
Wheel's partner? DEAL
Whipped __ CREAM
Whirling current EDDY
With "The," '80s British rockers who gave their group "the most ordinary name" SMITHS
Won by __ AHAIR
__ so often: occasionally EVERY