L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2023

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"Barracuda" band HEART
"Black Skin, White Masks" writer Frantz FANON
"Severance" actor SCOTT
"The Constant Gardener" Oscar winner WEISZ
Actress MacDowell ANDIE
Ancient Greek market AGORA
Arrests HAULSIN
Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto HORNSONATA
Berkeley, familiarly CAL
Book club? LITERATI
Brings it in, in a way HUGS
Coastal formation SEACAVE
Cocoon fillers PUPAE
Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels SILVA
Draw TIE
Each APOP
Fed. security TNOTE
Follow up too soon, perhaps DOUBLETEXT
Gilbert and Sullivan staple PATTERSONG
Good & Plenty flavor LICORICE
Hosted HADOVER
Imitate a dove COO
Inclined TILTING
Introduces an MGM film? ROARS
Is for many ARE
James Webb, for one SPACETELESCOPE
K-pop star, say IDOL
Layered snack OREO
Leather accessory CHAPS
Lithographer James Merritt IVES
Luthor in the Legion of Doom LEX
Many a reduction PANSAUCE
Member of a blended family STEPSISTER
MSNBC's "Inside With __ Psaki" JEN
Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downs LATS
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Needed Advil, say ACHED
One-named rapper in the hip-hop collective Doomtree DESSA
Part of some email addresses ORG
Parts of a sleeve TATS
Pitches delivered in sequence? MAJORSCALE
Precollege yrs ELHI
Pro concerned with returns CPA
Puffy deep-fried bread POORI
Purchases a company to obtain talented employees ACQUIHIRES
Rangers home, familiarly MSG
Really feel the heat BAKE
Receiving line? HEIRS
Repugnant NASTY
Rice, for one ANNE
Row of pawns, e.g OCTET
Sandbox game items? PAILS
Shows the door SEESOUT
Silent nemesis in "Peanuts" KITEEATINGTREE
Smoothie option GUAVA
Source of local produce, for short CSA
Spelling practice? SORCERY
Spice blend RUB
Superlative suffix EST
The before times? EVES
Tiny inheritance? GENE
Took a course? ATE
Tool for intricate cutting FRETSAW
Vegetable baked for chips KALE
Vulcan or Agni FIREGOD
Wood shaper ADZ
y=2x² plot, e.g PARABOLA
__ mignon FILET
__ out EKE
__ Polytechnique ECOLE
__ regia: gold-dissolving substance AQUA