L.A. Times Daily - Jan 3 2025

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" singer CROCE
"Can confirm" IAM
"Evita" narrator CHE
"Sold out" sign SRO
"The Karate Kid" mentor MIYAGI
"The Secret of Monkey Island" figure PIRATE
"Well, duh!" shorthand OBVS
128 oz GAL
403(b) IDs SSNS
Aid for brainstorming IDEAMAP
Bakery treats TARTS
Bar shelf assortment VODKAS
Bearish URSINE
Big lugs APES
Bit of a giggle HEE
Bounded LEAPT
Brought up with excellent manners, say WELLBRED
Bygone airline whose first flight was from Key West to Havana PANAM
Caffeine-rich nut KOLA
Captured WON
Carter of country DEANA
Celebration that involves rowdy games of Twister, facetiously? BODYPARTAY
Chapeau spot TETE
Cheek SASS
Cheek swab molecule DNA
City-building game franchise SIM
Daisy variety OXEYE
Donkey ASS
Empty cup at Starbucks? VACANTLATTE
ET from the planet Melmac ALF
Familiar devices TROPES
Father's hermana TIA
Figure at a reunion dinner ALUMNA
Floor plan measure AREA
Fulfill a debt REPAY
Genteel gesture HATTIP
Get ready for guests, perhaps TIDYUP
Grub EATS
Head, to a Brit LAV
Clues Answers
Helped a cause, say DONATED
Highlights, e.g DYES
Holiday time NOEL
Homemade website? ETSY
Is really good, songwise SLAPS
Keeping in the loop CCING
Large reference ATLAS
Lid affliction STYE
Little pest ANT
Loan fig APR
Mata __ HARI
Members of Gil Grissom's team, briefly CSIS
Moody genre EMO
More succinct TERSER
Nursery refrain EIEIO
Old saws AXIOMS
Old Testament book AMOS
Once again ANEW
Pal CHUM
Palm berry ACAI
Paper model of a wrinkly dog? CARDSHARPEI
Peaceful greetings SALAAMS
Peak performance, and an apt title for this puzzle AGAME
Pod filler PEA
Showing a bit of cheek SAUCY
Slowly go dark FADE
Smelling a rat, so to speak LEERY
Snack sometimes referred to as a sandwich OREO
Southern pitcherful SWEETTEA
Spielberg thriller based on a Benchley novel JAWS
Sri Lanka, once CEYLON
Sultanate on Borneo BRUNEI
Therapist's questionnaire? SELFSURVEY
Tinkering inits DIY
To this point SOFAR
Trial site VENUE
Whisky name DEWAR
Wide body SEA
__ stick: incense JOSS