L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2022

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Clues Answers
"All bets __ off" ARE
"Catch-22" pilot who crashes repeatedly ORR
"The Treachery of Images" painter MAGRITTE
"The __ for home lives in all of us": Angelou ACHE
"Your table's ready" buzzer PAGER
*Begin to chase, with "off" TAKEAFTER
*Do some creative accounting, with "the" COOKBOOKS
*Gaining prominence, with "and" UPCOMING
*Try to delay, with "for" PLAYTIME
1980s cloning target IBMPC
Announce grandly HERALD
Authorized OKED
Broke off ENDED
Buster BUB
Cause of inflation AIR
Coarse file RASP
Coil in a garden HOSE
Common foundation SLAB
Common Scrabble tile value ONE
Corker BEAUT
Country roads LANES
Cozy eatery CAFE
Dartboard wood ELM
Early delivery PREEMIE
Emergency signals FLARES
Exhort URGE
Facial piercing LIPRING
Good vibrations? PURRING
Half a comedy duo MEARA
Illuminated LIT
Illuminates EDIFIES
Impressive and then some SCARYGOOD
Intimate IMPLY
Laura of "Big Little Lies" DERN
Layered cookie OREO
Leaves be LETSLIE
Clues Answers
Less tender TOUGHER
Like drive-thru orders TOGO
Marrying sort? PARSON
McCartney of Wings LINDA
Nikkei index currency YEN
Not post- PRE
Of yore OLDEN
One ensuring accuracy on a grand scale? TUNER
One on a quest SEEKER
Pack, as a moving van LOADUP
Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? CENTERPIECE
Place to ruminate LEA
Pop duo __ & Him SHE
Praises LAUDS
Revere alternative BYSEA
Rumbled, as thunder ROLLED
Scene-ending phrase ANDCUT
Scottish girls LASSIES
Seductive quality ALLURE
Show parts ACTS
Singer depicted in the biopic "Walk the Line" CASH
Solar __ SYSTEM
Start of an adage about humanity TOERR
Target of an annual vaccine FLU
Torment AGONY
Tower for a pet who likes to climb and hide CATCONDO
Tower of London figure BEEFEATER
Type of village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories SHTETL
Up to, briefly TIL
Vare Trophy org LPGA
Walked (on) TROD
Washed up, maybe ASHORE
Wheels CAR
Word said with a curtsy MLADY
WWII Polish resistance hero Sendler IRENA
__ price ASKING