L.A. Times Daily - Apr 17 2018

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Clues Answers
"Best thing since" invention metaphor SLICEDBREAD
"Okay by me" FINE
"What I Am" singer Brickell EDIE
Absolut rival SKYY
Airing in the wee hours ONLATE
Animal on XING signs DEER
Attaches a patch, say SEWS
Avian crop CRAW
Back talk SASS
Boardroom VIP EXEC
Brought back to mind RECALLED
Carrots' partners PEAS
Cigarette stimulant NICOTINE
College student's dining choice MEALPLAN
College transcript unit CREDIT
Collegian who roots for the Bulldogs ELI
Counting rhyme word EENY
Cub Scout leader AKELA
Cuba, por ejemplo ISLA
Cup handle EAR
Dance move STEP
Dangerous tide RIP
Defensive basketball tactic PRESS
Diner EATER
Dot between dollars and cents DECIMAL
Dr.'s orders RXS
Drop of sorrow TEAR
Earns after taxes NETS
Family babysitter NANA
First-rate AONE
Flip of a 45 record SIDEB
Fruitless VAIN
Given, as a medal AWARDED
Grab greedily SNATCH
Hatcher and Garr TERIS
June 6, 1944 DDAY
Letters in old dates BCE
Long looks GAZES
Clues Answers
Massenet opera about a Spanish legend LECID
Medal recipient WARHERO
Migratory flying formations VEES
Nature excursions ECOTOURS
Nervous twitches TICS
Neutral shade ECRU
Not at all good EVIL
Not reactive, as gases INERT
Nourish FEED
O'Neill's "Desire Under the __" ELMS
Oscar-winning "Skyfall" singer ADELE
Oyster jewel PEARL
Pet without papers ... or what is literally found in the circled letters MIXEDBREED
Piece-of-cake shape WEDGE
Poetic preposition before "now" or "long" ERE
Praise highly EXALT
Retail center MART
Rudder locales STERNS
Security breach LEAK
Silvery freshwater fish BREAM
Singing competition that returned in 2018, familiarly IDOL
Slushy drink brand ICEE
Snarky SNIDE
Some Deco prints ERTES
Some HD sets LEDTVS
Staggered REELED
Successful cryptographer CODEBREAKER
Tick off MIFF
Toward the back AREAR
Typical John Grisham subject LAW
Untruth LIE
Up and about ASTIR
Use a surgical beam LASE
Virgil epic AENEID
Walked with purpose STRODE
Welcome wind on a hot day MILDBREEZE
Yank's war foe REB
__ set: building toy ERECTOR