L.A. Times Daily - Oct 1 2023

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Clues Answers
"Abbott Elementary" principal AVA
"Barbie" director Gerwig GRETA
"Better Call __" SAUL
"Empire" actress Long NIA
"I reject your offer" NOSALE
"Ideas worth spreading" lectures TEDTALKS
"It __ me" WASNT
"Pronto!" NOW
"The Show Goes On" rapper __ Fiasco LUPE
"Totes" DEF
"Well, well, well!" OHO
Aches and pains ILLS
Acknowledge silently NODAT
Advil competitor ALEVE
Angela of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" BASSETT
Apiece PER
Badenov's partner in cartoon crime FATALE
Bedazzle, say ADORN
Book after Psalms PROVERBS
By way of VIA
Calle __ Festival: annual event in Miami's Little Havana OCHO
Campus near NoHo NYU
Casper competitor SERTA
Coffee, colloquially JAVA
Comm. from some interpreters ASL
Cord cutters' lack CABLE
Cornball HOKEY
Crossed, as a stream FORDED
Cycle BIKE
Dashboard readout GAUGE
Davis of "A League of Their Own" GEENA
Deceive verbally LIETO
Departure spot POINTA
Destroy in esports PWN
Diarist Anaïs NIN
Die dot PIP
Direct or instant things MESSAGES
Documentary filmmaker Erin Lee __ CARR
Dodgeball setting PECLASS
Dog to beware BITER
East Asian principle TAO
ER drips IVS
Estimate qualifier ORSO
Everyone in the South? ALLYALL
Face time? HAIRANDMAKEUP
Fancy function FETE
Flex time? MROLYMPIA
Flower with hips ROSE
Food with a Peruvian holiday in its honor CEVICHE
Former planet PLUTO
Front of house position MAITRED
Frozen Hawaiian treat SHAVEICE
Fusses ADOS
Game whose outdoor version can be five feet tall JENGA
Genesis garden EDEN
Genius Bar devices MACS
Glasses, in a pinch JARS
Gooey, nutty dessert PECANPIE
Grapefruit kin POMELOS
Green gamers NOOBS
Gritty's team, on scoreboards PHI
Hammer targets NAILS
Home to Pha That Luang LAOS
Ilhan of Congress OMAR
Inert gas NEON
Inflicts on DOESTO
Insurance company with a spokesgoose AFLAC
Kick out of a seat OUST
Knock-__ KNEED
Korean coupes KIAS
Clues Answers
Lead-in to some bad news WELP
Light therapy box SUNLAMP
Like 33-Across SOMALI
Like a used fireplace ASHY
Line of sight? ISEE
Luau dish POI
Made a long story short? EDITED
Map abbr AVE
Meal on an expense report WORKDINNER
Model POSE
Mollusk with a banana variety SLUG
Mouth-y? ORAL
Mythical beast OGRE
Narrowly avoid AVERT
Nash of "Never Have I Ever" NIECY
Noodle NOB
Not great JUSTOKAY
Not pizzicato ARCO
Noted work? MUSIC
Noun suffix NESS
Nursery furniture CRADLE
Open-faced taco TOSTADA
Pampering place for a boxer PETSPA
Party time? PRIMARYELECTION
PC core CPU
PC gaming hardware company ASUS
Piña colada need RUM
Plant with a hedgehog variety ALOE
Pop star John ELTON
Run time? ULTRAMARATHON
Sarah Sherman's show, for short SNL
Screen time? BACKGROUNDCHECK
Set time? OPENMICNIGHT
Sharp bark YIP
Singer Del Rey LANA
Skateboard trick OLLIE
Small sip TASTE
Smart __ ALEC
Smidge DAB
Sneaker inserts ODOREATERS
Some cover crops RYES
Some lambs EWES
Somewhat ATAD
South American herbal brew COCATEA
Sports injury ACLTEAR
Stack next to a boombox TAPES
Strike callers UMPS
Stuffed pasta RAVIOLI
Subarctic biome TAIGA
Summer on the Riviera ETE
Talus locale ANKLE
Tandoor, e.g OVEN
Tapped container ALEKEG
Taylor-Joy of "The Menu" ANYA
Technical deets SPECS
Tee time? CASUALFRIDAY
Tended to some knots KNEADED
Test result GRADE
Thermometer unit DEGREE
To be, in Bogotá ESTAR
Toulouse turndown NON
Toy derived from the Chinese yo-yo DIABOLO
Track figures RACERS
Trucker's truck SEMI
Utters delight OOHS
Vanilla extract amts TSPS
Wapiti ELK
West Coast wine region NAPA
Works with black boxes REDACTS
Zinger MOT