L.A. Times Daily - Dec 15 2019

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Clues Answers
"A Death in the Family" writer AGEE
"Call Me Irresponsible" lyricist CAHN
"Consequently ... " ANDSO
"Dies __" IRAE
"Joy to the World," e.g CAROL
"Miss Saigon" setting NAM
"Straight Up" singer ABDUL
"Supernatural" co-star Jensen __ ACKLES
"Sweeney Todd" tool STROP
"The Vampire Chronicles" vampire LESTAT
'60s song car with "three deuces and a four-speed and a 389" GTO
'80s soap rebooted in 2017 DYNASTY
*Cowhide accessory LEATHERBELT
*Down time on Wall Street? BEARMARKET
*Fancy decoration particles GOLDPOWDER
*Former Queens home of the US Open FORESTHILLS
*It's larger than a littleneck CHERRYSTONE
*Kozy Shack dessert RICEPUDDING
*Landmark near Waikiki DIAMONDHEAD
*Negative-studier's aid LIGHTBOX
*Where land and ocean meet SEABOARD
1964 Nobel Prize decliner SARTRE
2015 Best Actress Larson BRIE
67.5 deg ENE
Actress Swinton TILDA
Advance in the race? EVOLVE
Alaskan native ALEUT
All-inclusive adjective EVERY
Are losing TRAIL
Art of verse POESY
Bad road condition? RAGE
Best way to leave the casino AHEAD
Bethesda medical agcy NIH
Beyond "business casual" DRESSY
Broad Eurasian region SIBERIA
Carafe size LITER
Cascades peak SHASTA
Chef's collection PANS
City on Utah Lake OREM
Come to pass OCCUR
Comes down with GETS
Complexion spoiler BLEMISH
Computer __ USER
Costa del __ SOL
Cry of success YES
Cut SEVER
Cuts at an angle BEVELS
Desertlike SERE
Despised HATED
Detroit Lions' mascot ROARY
Dimwitted "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" dinosaur DWEEB
Discipline with poses YOGA
Ditch TRENCH
Duck named for the long-feathered part of its anatomy PINTAIL
Early fall baby's sign LIBRA
Egyptian fertility goddess ISIS
Electra's brother ORESTES
Extending the life of REUSING
Figure out DEDUCE
Fly AVIATE
Formal order DECREE
Fraternal gp BPOE
GATT successor WTO
Get situated ORIENT
Gets to the bottom of SOLVES
Gist NUB
Harvest goddess DEMETER
Hawaii County seat HILO
Hearth item sometimes called a firedog ANDIRON
High point APEX
Honorary degree for attys LLD
Clues Answers
How Yoda spoke SAGELY
Indy entrant RACER
Jalopy BEATER
Junior SON
Kangaroo move HOP
Land adjoining a mansion DEMESNE
Liberal __ ARTS
Loggers' contest ROLEO
Madhouse BEDLAM
Mary __ KAY
Mocedades song covered by Eydie Gormé as "Touch the Wind" ERESTU
Mouth formations DELTAS
MTV sci-fi show "__ Flux" AEON
Narc's org DEA
Noble gas NEON
Not of the cloth LAY
One often has ticks LIST
One-named Deco artist ERTE
Opposite of trans CIS
Outdoorsy, taste-wise TWEEDY
Papyrus plants, e.g SEDGES
PC key not used by itself CTRL
Peak pique IRE
Peloponnesian War victor SPARTA
Pelt FUR
PGA part: Abbr ASSN
Phony (up) HOKE
Pin in a ring, say SUBDUE
Plain __: obvious TOSEE
Potpourri OLIO
Printer supply TONER
Protruding windows ORIELS
Pulitzer-winning Ferber novel SOBIG
Quick run DASH
Random House co-founder CERF
Recall targets LEMONS
Red wine CHIANTI
Riskily off base AWOL
River transport BARGE
Rope loop NOOSE
Sad sack HANGDOG
Shawm descendant OBOE
Shrek's bestie DONKEY
Sick to the max ILLEST
Six-yr.-term pol SEN
Snuggled, in a way SPOONED
Society page word NEE
Stand-up quality? POSTURE
Submerged threat REEF
Sugar Plum Fairy's instrument CELESTA
Take another shot RETRY
Talk Like a Pirate Day refrain YOHOHO
Tenth: Pref DECI
Textbook section LESSON
The "E" in BCE ERA
Things to believe in ISMS
TiVo predecessor VCR
Tool with a curved blade SICKLE
Tough tests ORALS
Track events RELAYS
Trading places? AGORAE
Unloaded? SOBER
Urban planner's concern SPRAWL
Vega's constellation LYRA
Victoria, to William IV NIECE
Voyager 2 destination URANUS
Walk quietly TIPTOE
Weasel relative OTTER
What prospective borrowers compare RATES
Word that may precede itself UNTO
__ podrida: Spanish dish OLLA