L.A. Times Daily - Jan 16 2024

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Clues Answers
"All kidding __ ... " ASIDE
"Blue Banisters" singer-songwriter Del Rey LANA
"Darn tootin'!" ILLSAY
"Don't believe the __" HYPE
"Great news!" YAY
"Knives Out" filmmaker Johnson RIAN
"Star Wars" heroine LEIA
"West Side Story" role for Rachel Zegler MARIA
"With all __ respect ... " DUE
Above-the-street rumblers ELS
According to PER
Altar area APSE
Ancestral stories, e.g LORE
At one's leisure IDLY
Ballplayer's hat CAP
Baton Rouge sch LSU
Beige shade ECRU
Bowlful of letter-shaped pasta ALPHABETSOUP
Bygone Persian rulers SHAHS
Call one's own CLAIM
Camouflaged HID
Cash dispensers ATMS
Certain Tuscan PISAN
Court game TENNIS
Diner dessert topped with a scoop APPLEPIEALAMODE
End a project due to lack of funding, say PULLTHEPIN
Feel ill AIL
Fencer's blade EPEE
Feudal lord LIEGE
Fire truck item HOSE
Follow orders OBEY
Former name of Thailand SIAM
Game in which a player may get a red or a yellow card UNO
Grampa Simpson ABE
Gulp down EAT
Half-moon tide NEAP
He/__ pronouns HIM
Healing ointment SALVE
Hit the books STUDY
Clues Answers
Irk VEX
Kumquat coat PEEL
Like some winter nights SNOWY
Loch __ monster NESS
Make a mistake SLIPUP
Marshmallow treats shaped like baby birds PEEPS
More current NEWER
New venture that may collaborate with Y Combinator, and what 18-, 24-, 40-, and 52-Across each literally has? TECHSTARTUP
Pick to win at the track BETON
Place for a napkin or a cat LAP
Place to take it easy SPA
Poet Whitman WALT
Potato spot EYE
Recovers HEALS
Regular's order, with "the" USUAL
Reside (in) LIVE
Reverse UNDO
Rotisserie rod SPIT
Scientific studies of pooled data METAANALYSES
Score more points than BEAT
Settled on a branch, as a bird ALIT
Share an opinion AGREE
Sierra __, Africa LEONE
Simple flotation device POOLNOODLE
Sing the praises of EXTOL
Snapchat snicker LOL
South American home of many pink dolphins AMAZONRIVER
Spanish mister SENOR
Suspect's excuse ALIBI
Top of the line AONE
Under BELOW
Undercover agent's device WIRE
Untruth LIE
Very small WEE
Witch __: astringent lotion HAZEL
Wooden wine container BARREL
Yale student ELI
Yoga posture ASANA
__-blond: grayish shade ASH