L.A. Times Daily - Dec 17 2022

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Clues Answers
"Calm down, sport" EASYTHERETIGER
"Just play along" HUMORME
"Phooey!" DRAT
"Word" IHEARYA
"You're killing me, __!" SMALLS
"__ Outspoken: My Life in the News": 2012 memoir RATHER
A couple MATES
Animals in Serta ads SHEEP
Attacks, as a snow fort PELTS
Brazen personal ad? SHAMELESSPLUG
Bread machine ATM
Ceremonial champagne opener SABER
Chest bone RIB
Chutzpah SASS
City in the Sonoran Desert YUMA
Colossus BEHEMOTH
Continuity problem GAP
Defies authority REBELS
Diagnosis that may be accommodated with an IEP ADHD
Draws (away) SHIES
Entrance hall FOYER
Fancy affair SOIREE
Fave option PREF
First name in jumps EVEL
Food additive MSG
Gains star power HITSTHEBIGTIME
Gig fraction BYTE
Give a lift ELEVATE
Go at it SPAR
Having sex, perhaps RATEDR
Hub served by BART SFO
Hustles out SCOOTS
Illustrator Dustin who won an Eisner Award for "Descender" NGUYEN
Indigenous Arizona people APACHE
Initial request for an answer? RSVP
Clues Answers
Invoice no AMT
King Kong or Kanzi APE
Knee-slappers RIOTS
Korean for "kick" TAE
Legal conclusion? ESE
Letters in a tab HTTP
Long ride LIMO
Main ingredient of zongzi RICE
Makes sense FITS
Minibar tool ICETONGS
Mystery-shrouded novelist Elena FERRANTE
Number of World Series wins for each of Chicago's teams THREE
Number that's always positive AGE
One gaining star power, perhaps GAMER
Picks OPTS
Place for a plant SILL
Polo, e.g TOP
Quality assurance ACIDTEST
Restless desire ITCH
Rich brown shade MOCHA
Sculptor Eva who pioneered postminimalism in the 1960s HESSE
Second place SILVER
See 45-Down MAT
Skilled performer ARTISTE
Snack with a rock climber on its wrapper CLIFBAR
Something clasped for support BRA
Starting from SINCE
Symbol held aloft in an Emmy statuette ATOM
Title derived from the ancient Egyptian for "great house" PHARAOH
Triumphant declaration NOTTODAYSATAN
Two out of nine? ENS
Use a joystick, perhaps STEER
Water under the bridge STREAM
With 42-Across, surface for shavasana YOGA
Workshop device CLAMP