L.A. Times Daily - Dec 4 2024

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Clues Answers
"Jeepers!" YIKES
"Just joshing!" IKID
"Les Misérables" novelist Victor HUGO
*Speedy beverage option? BRISKICEDTEA
*Speedy breakfast option? QUICKGRITS
*Speedy dinner option? INSTANTRAMEN
*Speedy side dish option? MINUTERICE
Beginning of an idea SEED
Beyond discouraged TABOO
Bit TAD
Bodies of water SEAS
Boston NBA team, colloquially CELTS
Brief kiss PECK
Business entities FIRMS
Checked out before a heist CASED
Comic strip reporter Brenda STARR
CSI sample DNA
Dentist's procedure XRAY
Didn't make the team's final roster GOTCUT
Dover landmarks CLIFFS
Drive away CHASEOFF
Dubai's fed UAE
Excalibur, for one SWORD
Exceedingly OHSO
Forever, figuratively EON
Gelato receptacle CONE
Goose-bumps-causing EERIE
Guitar part FRET
Hip-hop's __ Clan WUTANG
Hit the slopes SKI
Hold in esteem VALUE
HSN alternative QVC
Included on an email CCED
Ingredient in some 55-Across treatments ALOE
Iranian tongue FARSI
Japanese sash OBI
Khaki kin TAN
List of appts SKED
Little one TOT
Lower leg SHIN
Made sharper HONED
Makes catty comments SNARKS
Clues Answers
Male sheep RAM
Mama deer DOE
Minolta partner KONICA
Moisturizer target DRYSKIN
NFL flag thrower REF
Not busy IDLE
Opt for DECIDEON
Pampering place SPA
Pedometer units STEPS
Polish tennis star Swiatek IGA
Pop in for a scene, say CAMEO
Prefix with natal NEO
Santa's laugh HOHOHO
Scuba necessity TANK
Singer Kristofferson KRIS
Skeptical about WARYOF
Small intake SIP
Smallish batteries AAAS
Sneakers, informally KICKS
Some haciendas ADOBES
Somewhat ruddy REDDISH
Spanish title SENORA
Speedy meal option, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are? FASTFOOD
Strength of character METTLE
Suffix with home or farm STEAD
Taylor who was Time's 2023 Person of the Year SWIFT
Texter's "No clue" IDK
Tidy NEAT
Tools for fall guys? RAKES
Two, in Trois-Rivières DEUX
Video file format MPEG
Wall Street figure TRADER
Whisky, e.g SCOTCH
Wide open AGAPE
Wistful sound SIGH
Wrath IRE
Yorke of Radiohead THOM
__ dollar SAND
__ the pot STIR
__-A-Fella Records: Jay-Z label ROC
__-at-ease ILL