L.A. Times Daily - Jan 7 2020

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Clues Answers
"Answer with the first thing that comes to mind" exercise WORDASSOCIATION
"Green Book" Oscar winner Mahershala ALI
"I've seen better" MEH
"Mangia!" EAT
"My __ Vinny": 1992 comedy COUSIN
"Omigosh!" YIPE
"Peer Gynt Suite" dancer ANITRA
"Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host Tyler AISHA
'70s Chilean president SalvadorAllende
1914-'18 conflict, briefly WWI
Acting twins Mary-Kate and Ashley OLSENS
Actress Russo RENE
Ambulance patient's MD ERDOC
Be absorbed gradually OSMOSE
Beach pailful SAND
Brewpub pour ALE
Cambridge chaps BLOKES
CEO's degree MBA
Cold War mil. program SDI
Cross-shaped Greek letter TAU
D.C. United's former stadium RFK
Ed.'s backlog MSS
Farfalle and fusilli PASTAS
Farm grunt OINK
Fly ball's path ARC
French "to be" ETRE
French monarch ROI
Funny Cheri OTERI
German steel city ESSEN
Go with the __ FLOW
Goldman __: investment banking giant SACHS
Golfer Michelle WIE
Hard-to-miss sign NEON
Hockey score GOAL
Indian music style RAGA
Kid-lit girl who lives on the "tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel ELOISE
Latin jazz great Puente TITO
LED component DIODE
Clues Answers
Like "Stranger Things" EERIE
Like the accent in passé ACUTE
Loitering, say IDLE
Lowest-ranking NCO CPL
Lubricate again REOIL
Neptune or Pluto GOD
Nevada casino city RENO
Not be serious KIDAROUND
Numbered hwy RTE
Nutty ice cream parlor order ... and a hint to each set of circled letters ROCKYROAD
Palme d'Or, e.g AWARD
Passé OLDHAT
Photo session SHOOT
Playground equipment SWINGS
Pres. or P.M LDR
Pulitzer category DRAMA
Quaint lodging INN
Roulette bet ODD
Sandwich shop specification ONRYE
Scoundrel SCALAWAG
Seasonal mall temp SANTA
Second Beatle on the "Abbey Road" cover RINGO
Show-off HOTDOG
Some pipe joints ELLS
Sportscaster Albert MARV
Summer shirt TEE
Thief CROOK
Thieves' hideout LAIR
Thieves' hideout DEN
Toronto native ONTARIAN
Travel aimlessly ROAM
Treaty partner ALLY
Utopia EDEN
Wallet single ONE
Wine city north of Lisbon OPORTO
World Cup cheer OLE
World's largest lizards KOMODODRAGONS
Wound yarn units SKEINS