L.A. Times Daily - Dec 24 2023

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Clues Answers
"Dark Angel" star Jessica ALBA
"Demon Slayer" genre ANIME
"Great show!" BRAVO
"Middlemarch" novelist ELIOT
"Orinoco Flow" singer ENYA
"Rugrats" mom DIDI
"Shining Vale" actress Sorvino MIRA
"Stronger than dirt" brand AJAX
"That's gross!" UGH
"The Addams Family" actor Julia RAUL
"What __ can I say?" ELSE
"Your wish is my command" speaker GENIE
"__ I say more?" NEED
"__ seen worse" IVE
2-Down accompaniers OVATIONS
Action in Uno DRAW
Actress Thurman UMA
Agnus __ DEI
Appeals to a higher power PRAYS
Approaches NEARS
Aramis companion ATHOS
Awkwafina's real first name NORA
Boxer Max BAER
Bygone coin-op eatery AUTOMAT
Campus mil. group ROTC
Carpentry debris SAWDUST
Carving tools ADZES
Cat hair, pollen, dust mites, etc ALLERGENS
Celebrity chef Burrell ANNE
Celestial object next visible from Earth in 2061 HALLEYSCOMET
Cereal grain OAT
Ceremony host EMCEE
Circle widths DIAMETERS
Command post HELM
Connie Francis hit with a rhyming title STUPIDCUPID
Counterpart of fem., in grammar MASC
Dent or scratch MAR
Devilish creatures IMPS
Digital asset: Abbr NFT
Diner fave BLT
Does impressions MIMICS
Dublin Murder Squad series novelist French TANA
Elton John hit with the misheard lyric "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" TINYDANCER
End-of-unit classroom event TEST
Eves' counterparts MORNS
Extremely small MICRO
Eye color, e.g TRAIT
Fashion house whose logo is two interlocking C's CHANEL
Fit snugly inside NESTED
Fitness method with "a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward" PRANCERCISE
Fix a worn-out shoe RESOLE
Flood defense LEVEE
Formula 1 starting positions GRIDS
Fried cornbread PONE
Future dr.'s class ANAT
Game 1 OPENER
German roadster that once held the world speed record BLITZENBENZ
Give comfort to REASSURE
Gmail option ARCHIVE
Go back to Chapter 1 REREAD
Greeted with a ceremonial bow SALAAMED
Hanover Ivy DARTMOUTH
Hardly appropriate INAPT
Hatcher of "Lois & Clark" TERI
Home to more than 1.4 billion people INDIA
Honor given by HM King Charles III OBE
How Santa dresses, mostly INRED
Irene of "Fame" CARA
Jewel box CDCASE
Kidney-related RENAL
King of the jungle LION
Clues Answers
King who says to Cordelia, "Nothing can come of nothing" LEAR
Like some reports ORAL
Like the dinos in "Jurassic Park" CGI
List ROSTER
Longtime PBS "Mystery!" host Diana RIGG
Low grade DEE
Luau neckwear LEI
Lunch hours, e.g MEALTIMES
Luxury timepiece OMEGA
Make the team's blooper reel, perhaps ERR
Malek of "Oppenheimer" RAMI
Marsh ducks TEALS
Member of the fam SIB
Men's clothing retailer HABERDASHER
Messy handwriting SCRAWL
Monastery head ABBOT
More vast HUGER
Mythological fox destined never to be caught CADMEANVIXEN
Name in fine china SPODE
Not firmly fixed UNSTABLE
Not the worst SOSO
Office supplier STATIONER
Oft-baked potato RUSSET
One held for questioning DETAINEE
Org. created by the 1957 Treaty of Rome EEC
Payment for labor WAGE
Permanent marks SCARS
Physicist Newton ISAAC
Plastic shoe wearer DOLL
Polish tennis champ Swiatek IGA
Polynesian language SAMOAN
Portuguese title DONA
Property claim LIEN
Public persona IMAGE
Quechua speaker INCAN
Raison d'__ ETRE
Road-trip stops INNS
Rum-soaked cakes BABAS
Sicilian volcano ETNA
Sign OMEN
Singer DiFranco ANI
Some deli loaves RYES
Some errand runners on a yacht CABINBOYS
Stadium levels TIERS
Starts a fresh pot ANTES
Suffix akin to -ule ETTE
Sugarcoats GLAZES
Swap TRADE
Tank nuisance ALGAE
Teakettle output STEAM
Texter's "I'm out!" TTYL
Thing ENTITY
Thor's son in the role-playing game Scion ERICDONNER
Thrift shop condition USED
Trains for a marathon, say RUNS
Tribute in "Antigone" ODETOMAN
Trouble EATAT
Tungusic people of northeast China MANCHU
Turner and Knight TEDS
U.S. passport holder AMER
Unrefined CRUDE
UPC bar code developer IBM
Upon ATOP
Vogue rival ELLE
Wall St. takeover LBO
Went to collect FETCHED
Word with sky or spy CAM
__ alai JAI
__ Bora: Afghan region TORA
__ Moines, Iowa DES
__ Park: Edison lab site MENLO