L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2024

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Clues Answers
"Isn't this all just __ much?" ABIT
"Shaken, not stirred" cocktail MARTINI
"The Maltese Falcon" actress Mary ASTOR
"The Queen's Gambit" activity CHESS
100% ALL
1980s president Ronald REAGAN
Above, in verse OER
Actor Danson TED
Arduous journey SLOG
Beginning stages, and what the starts of 16-, 24-, 38-, and 47-Across literally are? EARLYDAYS
Big-box __ STORE
Bingo kin KENO
Clark of classic Hollywood GABLE
Competitive countenance GAMEFACE
DEA agent NARC
Disney princess with a jealous stepmother SNOWWHITE
Do some sums ADD
Elphaba's broom in "Wicked," for one PROP
Fan noise WHIR
First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE
For each PER
Full of energy WIRED
Go away gradually ERODE
Guiding principle CREDO
Heaven-sent food MANNA
Includes on a 51-Down CCS
Iron-deficient, perhaps ANEMIC
Letter-shaped ski lift TBAR
Like a busybody NOSY
Like books on Goodreads RATED
Like radiator pipes COILED
Love, in French AMOUR
Make happy GLADDEN
Make really happy ELATE
Mani counterpart PEDI
Many a techie or Trekkie GEEK
Med. plan option HMO
New Zealand native MAORI
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Nile snake ASP
Noon nourishment LUNCH
One of a journalist's five W's WHO
Paperless message EMAIL
Pasta that can be used to make risotto ORZO
Pedometer unit STEP
Pick up on DETECT
Piece in a model helicopter kit ROTOR
Pumpernickel flour RYE
Quaker __: big name in cereal OATS
Rare Italian violin AMATI
Redeem for money CASHIN
Rowing team CREW
Scent ODOR
Silver deposit ORE
Skeleton pieces BONES
Small, medium, or large SIZE
Smitten Kitchen blogger Perelman DEB
So far ASYET
Some CGI beings ETS
Source material for fan fiction CANON
Spanish city with Moorish architecture CORDOBA
Speaks hoarsely RASPS
Sweet denial NODEAR
Synagogue scroll TORAH
Taco topping SALSA
The "E" of QED ERAT
Thingamajigs DOODADS
Truly exhausted DOGTIRED
Up to one's eyeballs SWAMPED
Use a rod and reel on a frozen lake ICEFISH
Utmost degree NTH
Word before down or out WORE
__ Island: The Ocean State RHODE
__ of lamb LEG
__ Rica COSTA
__-Manuel Miranda of "Hamilton" LIN
__-mo replay SLO