L.A. Times Daily - Oct 24 2021

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Clues Answers
"Dear Evan __": 2015 musical HANSEN
"I can't agree to this" NODEAL
"I'm __ to hear from you!" SOGLAD
"Just kidding!" NOT
"Nightmare" street ELM
"Rugrats" dad STU
*"Virtuous Woman" reggae singer WARRIORKING
*Grizzly, for one BROWNBEAR
*ICBM booster until 1987 TITANROCKET
*It goes up in cold weather HEATBILL
*Kipling's Shere Khan is one BENGALTIGER
*Nickname for Joe DiMaggio YANKEECLIPPER
*Olaf II of Norway, notably VIKINGSAINT
*The sun will eventually be one REDGIANT
2012 Facebook event, for short IPO
A musician usually has a good one EAR
Airline with an all-kosher menu ELAL
Allergic outburst AHCHOO
Attacks HASAT
Author Sheehy GAIL
Bagpiper's topper TAM
Bareilles of "Waitress" SARA
Before, poetically ERE
Best Supporting Actress before Ingrid TATUM
Béte __ NOIRE
Button alternative SNAP
Candy bar with a Nordic name SKOR
Cat's weapons CLAWS
Cell division MITOSIS
Cheese on crackers BRIE
China __: showy bloom ASTER
Claim no longer allowed on cigarettes LESSTAR
Comic book artist INKER
Condemnation REPROOF
Confirms, as a password RETYPES
Dark area on the moon MARE
Demonstrating skill ABLY
Discolor by burning SCORCH
Docking place BERTH
Earthly TERRENE
Eye, to a poet ORB
Fluoride-in-water meas PPM
Fortune WEALTH
Genesis twin ESAU
Going places? TOILETS
Grown-up efts NEWTS
Guru's residence ASHRAM
Hose clamp tightener TBOLT
Hudson Bay nation CREE
Huff and puff PANT
Insurance that covers dams? DENTAL
It was added to create an everyday quintet in 1990 UMAMI
Jack of "Some Like It Hot" LEMMON
Knowledge of spiritual matters GNOSIS
Like some dorms COED
List for a versatile tool USES
Little trickster ELF
Loses steam FLAGS
Mahershala of "Moonlight" ALI
Manicurist's board EMERY
Max Ernst, for one DADAIST
Mentally assimilate DIGEST
Merit EARN
Middles WAISTS
Mil. mess duties KPS
Military alert state DEFCON
MLB Hall of Famer Fox and journalist Bly NELLIES
Model in the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" TBIRD
Modern Persians IRANIS
More klutzy GAWKIER
NL Central club STL
Not even rare? RAW
Clues Answers
Originally called NEE
Ornamental vase URN
Overhaul REDO
Par-3 choice, often IRON
Pass rusher's stat SACKS
Past pudgy OBESE
Perfume that sounds forbidden TABU
Pickup relatives, briefly UTES
Pizzazz ELAN
Place for a pad KNEE
Played really badly STANK
Poke fun at GIBE
Pool concern ALGAE
Posse carriers HORSES
Prepare, as a contract DRAWUP
Presidential nickname ABE
Quote from Homer DOH
R&B great James ETTA
Reason to cram TEST
Relax, maybe LIE
Relaxed ATEASE
Response to goo ICK
Result of one too many, maybe SLUR
Ring at a wedding PEAL
Rookie, briefly NEWB
Scrabble piece TILE
Self-reproach REGRET
Series finale: Abbr ETAL
Shades TONES
Sharply hit baseball LINER
Show with constant cliff-hangers SOAP
Singer Ed featured in the 2019 film "Yesterday" SHEERAN
Slugger's creation SHINER
Small intake SIP
Smoothie fruit ACAI
Solheim Cup team USA
Sound of shock GASP
Spiritualist Deepak CHOPRA
State of suppressed worry STEW
Story line PLOT
Sub TEMP
Subtle glows AURAE
Sunbather's pride DARKTAN
Surfboard/kayak hybrid WAVESKI
Takes off GOES
Talk acronym TED
Target of a military press DELT
Telescope part LENS
They're on the same side ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues TEAMMATES
Thinks IDEATES
Tick off RILE
To this day YET
To-do HOOHA
True ALIGN
Turkish bigwigs AGHAS
Understanding KEN
Use for preservation, as wine barrels STOREIN
Uses, as a scale STEPSON
Utopias EDENS
Va. winter hours EST
VP under Jefferson BURR
Wasikowska of "Damsel" MIA
Willing to listen (to) OPEN
Without ice NEAT
Wolf down EAT
Words of understanding OHS
Yarn spinner LIAR
Yearn ACHE
Yellowfin tuna AHI
Zip one's lip KEEPMUM
__ a soul NARY
__ throat STREP