L.A. Times Daily - Feb 23 2024

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Clues Answers
"Bang!" BAM
"I would like some more catnip, please" MEOW
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" novelist Scott ODELL
"Spring forward" letters DST
"Stay" singer Lisa LOEB
"The Mamba Mentality: How I Play" writer Bryant KOBE
"__ the Turtle": University of Maryland catchphrase FEAR
31-Down abundance HAIR
55-Down, properly ISNT
62-Across, improperly AINT
A pop EACH
Amit Majmudar's "__ to a Drone" ODE
Apt rhyme for "freeze" SEIZE
Bass output ROE
Bird in a bevy QUAIL
Blame (on) PIN
Bootlegger's vessel STILL
Cain's brother ABEL
Camera setting, and what shortened 18-, 24-, 47-, and 58-Across? FSTOP
Campus climbers IVIES
Canyon GORGE
Damage control pro SPINDOCTOR
Durango day DIA
Emo ANGSTY
Experimental soft cheese? TRIALBRIE
Fancy spread PATE
Focus of Maslow's hierarchy NEEDS
Fool (with) MESS
Glossy material SATIN
Goofs in proofs ERRATA
Heart Eyes or OK Hand EMOJI
High-stakes shelter TENT
Hot spots OVENS
Joie de vivre ZEST
Lays aisle-mate UTZ
Like most whiskey AGED
Many a sedan MIDSIZECAR
Message board? OUIJA
Middle of dinner? ENS
Clues Answers
Nary a soul NOONE
Nosegay POSY
O icon OPRAH
One whose trick-learning years are behind them OLDDOG
Org. for OBs AMA
Otter kin MINK
Parents in the Hundred Acre Wood? RAISESTHEROO
People's superlative SEXIEST
Perfect IDEAL
Pod whose cross sections are pentagonal OKRA
Pollinator who can't fly? GROUNDBEE
Prize money PURSE
Product of Shenandoah Valley shepherds? VIRGINIAWOOL
Pump letters PSI
Quick meeting? SESH
Really take off AVIATE
Red Square honoree LENIN
Relinquish CEDE
Rod and __ REEL
Sample collector, maybe QTIP
Schedule for later DEFER
Second person YOU
Shaggy beasts YAKS
Signal CUE
Skip a syllable or two ELIDE
Sound of the Northwest PUGET
Sphere in old referee whistles PEA
Storage furniture CHEST
Took second, say STOLE
Tough talk? RASP
Tries out DEMOS
Tromp PLOD
Two-time WNBA MVP __ Delle Donne ELENA
Until UPTO
Visual aids GLASSES
Well-mannered blokes GENTS
Wrap sheet SARAN
__ Cup: PGA Tour prize FEDEX
__ Major URSA