L.A. Times Daily - Dec 14 2024

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Clues Answers
"Casablanca" role ILSA
"Hooked on a Feeling" hitmakers BLUESWEDE
"It'd be a dream come true!" IWISH
"Just fate, I guess" ITSKISMET
"Movement in Black" poet PATPARKER
"The Great Lie" Oscar winner Mary ASTOR
"This Is Why" Best Rock Album Grammy winners PARAMORE
Actor Stephen from 51-Across REA
Advocacy gp. co-founded by Larry Kramer ACTUP
Apple with multiple cores IMAC
Band also known as the Bangtan Boys BTS
Bit of redundancy in a Yogi Berra quip WRONGMISTAKES
Bitcoin alternative, familiarly ETHER
Bruno of "Encanto," for one TIO
Candy bar with a bubbly texture AERO
Carne __ ASADA
Chorus part LALA
Clear to see WRITLARGE
Delivery option HOMEBIRTH
Deserters RATS
Dismissive comment after a hot take SAIDNOONEEVER
Ethnic group in Myanmar MON
Father and son HES
Finesse ART
Frequent Bosch subject HELL
GroundClear and WeedClear maker ORTHO
Hammer part PEEN
Hash house DINER
Hold (off) STAVE
Hoppy pours ALES
Inflexible RIGID
Info on a political rival OPPO
Instant Pot dish STEW
Knot again RETIE
Clues Answers
L.L. Bean rival REI
Last time SHELFLIFE
Lengthen, as a lead ADDTO
Like xeric landscapes ARID
Low digits TOES
Maintain ARGUE
Mauveine, for one DYE
Monterey town known as the "Salad Bowl of the World" SALINAS
Near the hour TENTO
One making introductions EMCEE
Open space CONCOURSE
Osmond who won Season 9 of "Dancing With the Stars" DONNY
Pacific salmon COHO
Paul who's the only inductee of both the Rock & Roll and National Inventors halls of fame LES
Percolates SEEPS
Plane-related, say GEOMETRIC
Positive course feedback? YUM
Ruckus ADO
Snowball effect caused by lowered standards RACETOTHEBOTTOM
Some rescues ADOPTEES
Some, in Somme DES
Stormont locale NORTHERNIRELAND
Studio taken over by Howard Hughes RKO
Suck-up TOADY
Top form AGAME
Turnovers served with chutney SAMOSAS
Unit of decency? SHRED
Untainted spots EDENS
Western Greek island CORFU
William, since 2022 PRINCEOFWALES
Yin-yang principle TAO
__ bar TAPAS
__ dance STEP
__ Louise Huxtable, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism ADA