L.A. Times Daily - Dec 17 2023

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Clues Answers
"Groovy" NEATO
"Homeland" org CIA
"I did it!" TADA
"I love everything you've done here" NONOTES
"I'll drink to that" AMEN
"Star __" WARS
"Such a flirt!" OHYOU
"The Chi" creator Waithe LENA
"The curl experts" hair care brand OUIDAD
"This is your last warning!" STOPNOW
"__ did I just watch?" WHAT
Agcy. that oversees PubMed NIH
Alight LAND
Any minute now SOON
Awake before the alarm UPEARLY
Backstage crew TECHS
Ball caps or bottle caps LIDS
Basics ABCS
Before birth INUTERO
Big name in financial services SCHWAB
Bikini in the Pacific, e.g ATOLL
Bird that thinks it's a restaurant critic? EATINGCROW
Bird that thinks it's a television show host? TALKINGTURKEY
Blast letters TNT
Breads with pockets PITAS
Brewery shipments CASES
Burning ONFIRE
Cable network that's a nonprofit CSPAN
Cambridgeshire cathedral city ELY
Canine that thinks it's an old-timey news announcer? CRYINGWOLF
Caramel candy sold in a tube ROLO
Carpentry tools SAWS
Cheer syllable RAH
Comfort item for some tots BLANKIE
Consider, as an idea ENTERTAIN
Contacted privately, in a way DMED
Corvallis sch OSU
Cozy room DEN
Craps cube DIE
Cry from a Mega Millions winner IMRICH
Cry of recognition AHA
Deer sir STAG
Diarist Anaïs NIN
Don PUTON
Droplets on a cobweb DEW
Eager AVID
Easter Island's country CHILE
Egyptian peninsula SINAI
Employee benefit option, for short HSA
Enters HEADSIN
Faith with a shrine in the Hanging Gardens of Haifa BAHAI
Fashion monogram YSL
Fez danglers TASSELS
Finished OVER
First Nations people CREE
Flanged fasteners TNUTS
Frozen solid? ICE
Give credit to CITE
Gives a zero-star review, say TRASHES
Gym PECLASS
Headwear sported by Rihanna on the cover of British Vogue DURAG
Healing succulent ALOE
Hunger for CRAVE
Inflict upon DOTO
Ingredient in some vegan marshmallows AGAR
Insects that think they're outfielders? CATCHINGFLIES
Interpretation first provided for a SOTU address in 2021 ASL
Iotas TADS
Italian three TRE
Jam at a Pride Parade GAYANTHEM
Clues Answers
Lambs that think they're census takers? COUNTINGSHEEP
Light show? REVUE
Like some intricate designs LASERCUT
Little helper? ASST
LP or EP, e.g DISC
Lye, in a lab NAOH
Manchego source EWE
Marsupial that thinks it's an actor? PLAYINGPOSSUM
Minor in Hollywood DLIST
Mjölnir wielder THOR
Musher's conveyance DOGSLED
Mutation that removes a DNA sequence DELETION
Nasal irrigation vessels NETIPOTS
Observe SEE
Occasion to carry an umbrella RAINYDAY
Official religion of Djibouti ISLAM
Olympic swimmers Crocker and Thorpe IANS
Opposite of 33-Down HOLA
Opposite of 61-Across ADIOS
Partnerships ALLIANCES
Path finder in a Pathfinder, briefly GPS
Pedometer units STEPS
Phoebe or Cronus TITAN
Picture of Pluto? CEL
Pioneering ISP AOL
Pod used as a chocolate substitute CAROB
Possesses OWNS
Pot payments ANTES
Pound sounds ARFS
Prepares at a state fair, perhaps DEEPFRIES
Principle celebrated on the first night of Kwanzaa UNITY
Pt. of HDTV DEF
Put on the market SELL
Ran very slowly OOZED
Reads (over) PORES
Receive GREET
Red Monopoly piece HOTEL
Remove from the top of an inbox, say UNPIN
Rich cake TORTE
Ridiculous INANE
Runs very slowly SEEPS
Sets to zero, as a scale TARES
Silent stars? MIMES
Simplicity EASE
Single-masted sailboat SLOOP
Sired BEGAT
Snapple rival NESTEA
Snare NET
Social capital CLOUT
Spumante specification BRUT
Squirrel's cheekful ACORN
Stores with Småland play areas IKEAS
Surrounded by AMONGST
Swim events MEETS
Syst. between Baltimore and D.C MARC
Tabbies that think they're collies? HERDINGCATS
Takes a victory lap, maybe TROTS
Teensy bit SMIDGEN
Tourney favorite TOPSEED
Trouble AIL
Try again REDO
Turns blue? SADDENS
Used up GONE
Whole bunch SCAD
Willingness to support BUYIN
Wool type MERINO
Word after "Lavender" and "Purple," in song titles HAZE
__ City: Pittsburgh STEEL
__ cucumber SEA
__-pedi MANI