L.A. Times Daily - Jan 5 2024

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Clues Answers
"!!!" OMG
"Consider This" co-host Shapiro ARI
"Good __!" GRIEF
"Hey, you!" PSST
"How nasty" ICK
"I am melting!" ITSHOT
"There you __!" ARE
"You're embarrassing me!" OHSTOP
Alias indicator AKA
Around-the-world jaunts TOURS
Auto pioneer OLDS
Bit of sunshine RAY
Brewpub cask KEG
Bun in a bamboo steamer BAO
Can openers TABS
Classic game console, for short SNES
Colombian street snack AREPA
Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues TRADEMARKS
Crypto-linked collectibles: Abbr NFTS
Digging INTO
Do one's part? ACT
Energy bar brand CLIF
Fan-written story that romantically links same-sex characters BRACKETFICTION
Flight unit STAIR
Genius Bar employee, e.g ITPRO
Gibson of the "Fast & Furious" films TYRESE
Hot under the collar MAD
Jerk SPASM
K-pop band with a community of fans known as ARMY BTS
Lag TRAIL
Laptop slot PORT
Leave DEPART
Like DoorDash meals TOGO
Like Robin Hood's beneficiaries POOR
Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States ADA
Marinated tandoor dish TIKKA
Clues Answers
Mediocre SOSO
Met expectations? OPERAS
Military directives ORDERS
Musical phrases RIFFS
Not very bright PALE
Nothing more than MERE
OAK alternative SFO
Office competition during March Madness SLASHPOOL
Pack animal BURRO
Parkinson's drug LDOPA
Pos. for Lisa Leslie CTR
Potatoes au __ GRATIN
Printing measures longer than ens EMS
Quirkily creative ARTSY
Radish kin TURNIP
Recording device in a vehicle PERIODCAM
Regatta equipment OARS
Regret RUE
Reliever's stat ERA
Sass LIP
Software-driven FX CGI
Stops on the interstate RESTAREAS
Tax org IRS
Terse denial IDONT
Thicket COPSE
Trident-shaped letter PSI
Tristan's beloved ISOLDE
TV series that may have high costume budgets DASHDRAMAS
URL ender COM
Uses one's noggin THINKS
Video game hero who defeats Goombas with flaming projectiles FIREMARIO
Wetsuit material LYCRA
White vin BLANC
Writer/director Nora EPHRON
__ effect RIPPLE