L.A. Times Daily - Dec 24 2022

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Clues Answers
"A plateau is the highest form of flattery," e.g PUN
"Cheerio!" TATA
"I'm sunk!" ALLISLOST
"Let me have it" DOYOURWORST
"No regrets" initialism YOLO
"Perfect!" APLUS
"See what I did there?" TADA
"We're dying to know!" TELLUS
"Wipe your paws" spot MAT
Back on board AFT
Both parents, in some families MOMS
Canasta play MELD
Chess player Krush who is the only American woman Grandmaster IRINA
Confines, theatrically TYPECASTS
Dish whose name means "to slice" in Hawaiian POKE
Doll featured in many unboxing videos on YouTube LOLSURPRISE
Dot on a map ISLET
Draw ALLURE
Enviable trait ASSET
Eucalyptus lover, familiarly KOALABEAR
Explorer trained at the Gagarin Center in Star City COSMONAUT
Father SIRE
Film starring Himesh Patel as the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles YESTERDAY
Flower sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism LOTUS
Foundation of a barter system EVENTRADES
Give up WAIVE
Go unused SIT
Grandly appointed POSH
Grooming aid that might gather dust LINTROLLER
Heist series title word OCEANS
Home for the holidays? TIMESHARE
Home of the Baylor Bears WACO
Meryl's "Mary Poppins Returns" role TOPSY
Metallic mixture ALLOY
Misery WOE
Clues Answers
Nap on a carpet, e.g PILE
Old Italian 39-Across LIRA
One could be a lot ACRE
Onetime macOS scheduling app ICAL
Oolong and pu-erh TEAS
Out of shape RUSTY
Overcast GRAY
Piccata need CAPERS
Plot PLAN
Prefix with -phenomenalism EPI
Rank and file HOIPOLLOI
Ranks in judo DANS
Replay tech SLOMO
Root (out) SUSS
Scrapes (by) EKES
Setting for many a joke BAR
Singer who said, "Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream" NINASIMONE
Site with artisan shops ETSY
Snoring cause APNEA
Social image? PROFILEPIC
Soften THAW
Solution KEY
Stadium strata TIERS
Stands to take a picture? TRIPODS
State capital? MONEY
Stock phrase ATPAR
Take as a given SUPPOSE
Tech site with a "track prices" browser plug-in CNET
Title holder OWNER
Tough calls TOSSUPS
Tragic dancer of French literature ESMERALDA
Trojan leader? TAU
Turn to CONSULT
Wanders ROAMS
Zoom appt MTG