L.A. Times Daily - Apr 9 2024

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Clues Answers
"Can't you take a __!?" HINT
"Come on down!" announcer Johnny OLSON
"Noah kept bees in the ark hive," e.g PUN
"On the spot" spot HOTSEAT
"Spider-Man" trilogy director Sam RAIMI
18-wheeler RIG
Abel's brother CAIN
Act as a go-between LIAISE
Actor Sharif OMAR
Ages EONS
Amble MOSEY
Anise-flavored aperitif OUZO
Approves OKS
Available for purchase ONSALE
Battery unit VOLT
Battery units? TESTS
Begins, as a project SETSTO
Broad neckties ASCOTS
Calm and Restore skin care brand AVEENO
Cartel whose "O" does not stand for "oil" OPEC
Casual get-together SESH
Chose OPTED
Column of super-heated ash and sulfur dioxide during an eruption VOLCANICPLUME
Core group? ABS
Cries miserably WAILS
Distort, as data SKEW
Dog with a strong herding instinct COLLIE
Drill insert BIT
Ellipsis element DOT
Elm or ash TREE
Flow slowly OOZE
French yes OUI
Garlic bread option TEXASTOAST
Geological period EPOCH
Herman whose chart is topped with a giant "E" SNELLEN
Hockey Hall of Famer Gretzky WAYNE
Jack Black film with the tagline "Meet your ancestors" YEARONE
Clues Answers
Joey pal of Piglet ROO
Kitchen invaders ROACHES
Lab animal in a maze RAT
Like stale expressions TRITE
Liquid diet component BROTH
Memo phrase INRE
MLB stat RBI
Need for some hybrids GAS
Night before EVE
Nightshade relish TOMATOCOMPOTE
Not here anymore GONE
One of a pair on a library shelf, as well as one of a pair in each set of circled letters BOOKEND
Panko-breaded chicken dish KATSU
Part of a basic Latin conjugation AMAS
PC key below ~ TAB
Rail rider TRAIN
Reading on a decibel meter NOISELEVEL
Recognize NOTICE
Saddle attachments STIRRUPS
Showroom pitches SPIELS
Sign between Cancer and Virgo LEO
Site with a Craft Supplies section ETSY
Starbucks size VENTI
Statistician Silver NATE
Steve Inskeep's network NPR
Sue Grafton's "__ for Vengeance" VIS
Superficial layer VENEER
Superlative suffix EST
Superman foe Luthor LEX
Use for support RELYON
Utters SAYS
Valley west of Sacramento NAPA
Verdi composition OPERA
Word that can follow goal or detail ORIENTED
Yet to be paid OWING
__ salts: bathwater additive EPSOM
__-country music ALT