L.A. Times Daily - Jan 2 2024

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Clues Answers
"Ain't gonna happen" NOPE
"Believe" Grammy winner CHER
"Bloodline" actor Chandler KYLE
"Take a load off" SIT
"To __ It May Concern" WHOM
"Woo-hoo!" YAY
*Clarinet, bassoon, etc., in an orchestra WINDSECTION
*Hurdles for would-be attorneys BAREXAMINATIONS
*Rural byway COUNTRYROAD
Arcade coins TOKENS
Architectural drawing PLAN
Award similar to a Tony OBIE
Backyard storage for hoes and hoses SHED
Bar mitzvah scroll TORAH
Beyoncé's "Best __ I Never Had" THING
BLT option ONRYE
Blueberrylike berry ACAI
Break bread DINE
Bulletin board pins TACKS
Change for a 50, maybe TENS
Charging station DOCK
Cold feet FEAR
Corn discards COBS
December 24 or 31 EVE
Digit NUMBER
Earth DIRT
Ernie's "Sesame Street" pal BERT
Farm structures PENS
Ferret kin WEASEL
Film crew employee TECH
Finds a purpose for USES
Fly off the shelves SELL
Fruit on a cocktail toothpick OLIVE
Give it a go TRY
Grandma's daughter AUNT
Greasy OILY
Group of eight OCTET
Growth on an old loaf MOLD
Guitar Hero challenge SOLO
Clues Answers
Helsinki inhabitants FINNS
Jai __: Basque game ALAI
Light supper SALAD
Like cold cuts SLICED
Lyft rival UBER
Made for __ other EACH
Make mad RILE
Mattress support piece SLAT
More formal than business casual DRESSY
Narrow openings SLITS
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi ANNAN
Novelty "pet" that's really a plant CHIA
Opera house level LOGE
Pampering place SPA
Part of a plot ACRE
Peevish TESTY
Possessed HAD
Quite a while YEARS
Ransacks LOOTS
Respect highly ESTEEM
Rosie on "The Jetsons," for one MAID
Small hill KNOLL
Sound systems STEREOS
Spud, informally TATER
Stanley Cup org NHL
Starfleet Academy student CADET
Tapping out messages TEXTING
TGIF part THANK
Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? CROSSREFERENCES
Throw in ADD
Timeline segment ERA
Took off RAN
Toothpaste dispensers TUBES
Two-part sci-fi epic starring Timothée Chalamet DUNE
Uncooked RAW
Windy City airport OHARE
Youngest "Despicable Me" daughter AGNES
__ Dhabi ABU
__-Cuban jazz AFRO