L.A. Times Daily - Jan 31 2024

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Clues Answers
"A Man Called __": Tom Hanks film based on a Fredrik Backman novel OTTO
"Frozen" sister ELSA
"Not that much" LESS
"Pronto" letters ASAP
"The A-Team" actor MRT
*Bakery employees who offer free samples? CUPCAKEHOLDERS
*Comfort food with a high price tag? POTPIEOFGOLD
*Mistakes made while preparing a simple breakfast? POPTARTFOULS
Abbr. before a year ESTAB
Adversary ENEMY
Back AGO
Barbershop quartet part TENOR
Bartender's supply SODA
BEACH Act org EPA
Bidding site EBAY
Breathe fire, say RAGE
Brief visit STOPOVER
Canapé base, maybe TOAST
Chant for the red, white, and blue USAUSA
Chocolate __ LAB
Cold feet or hot seat IDIOM
Come clean? BATHE
Delight ELATE
Designer monogram YSL
Dog park sound ARF
Done ENDED
Down-to-earth REAL
Equal PEER
Eva of "Green Acres" GABOR
Excursion where one might see something brewing? BEERTOUR
French 101 infinitive AVOIR
Full of cheer MERRY
Fundraising org PTA
Geico icon GECKO
Gets faint DIMS
High seas quaff GROG
Improves in a cellar, say AGES
Inevitable end FATE
Islamic leader IMAM
Clues Answers
Job detail, for short SPEC
Last remarks? OBIT
Laundry brand ERA
Like many students at Gallaudet University DEAF
Likelihood ODDS
Medicinal plants ALOES
Mess (with) TAMPER
Misstep ERROR
Other, in Oaxaca OTRO
Part of RBI BATTED
Pigeon fancier on "Sesame Street" BERT
Pizza place OVEN
Place to drive TEEBOX
Pointed tools AWLS
Purpose USE
Question from a server, or what was needed to create the answer to each starred clue ROOMFORDESSERT
Rachel Maddow's field NEWS
Recipe amt TSP
Record LOG
Relaxed pace TROT
Shed LOSE
Show up ARRIVE
Simon or Garfunkel NAME
Sleep apnea apparatus, initially CPAP
Small valley DELL
Smallest state in India GOA
Soap brand DOVE
Soap brand LAVA
Some DEA employees NARCS
Stable staple OAT
Summer hrs. in Portsmouth EDT
Terra __ COTTA
To boot ALSO
Took a hatchet to AXED
Tourist destination on the Yucatán CANCUN
Tracks CUTS
Water waster DRIP
Wong of "Birds of Prey" ALI
Worker with a monotonous routine DRONE