L.A. Times Daily - Aug 23 2021

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Clues Answers
"If all __ fails ... " ELSE
"My pleasure" LOVETO
"The __": "What she's having" SAME
"Way to go, team!" WEDIDIT
*Dressing with Buffalo wings BLUECHEESE
*Hitchhiked BUMMEDARIDE
*Something kept to avoid attention LOWPROFILE
Abbott and Costello's first baseman WHO
Apple device featuring Siri IPHONE
Area for experiments LAB
Ballerina, at times LEAPER
Beers served with lime CORONAS
Biscotti flavoring ANISE
Biscuits at teas SCONES
Board game with nine rooms CLUE
Book with maps ATLAS
Bullfight "Bravo!" OLE
Cake topping ICING
Carrot, on a snowman NOSE
Changes direction TURNS
Classifieds, e.g ADS
Clear of data, e.g ERASE
CNN journalist Hill ERICA
Create a raised logo on, say EMBOSS
Cry to one blocking your view at a concert ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues DOWNINFRONT
Doctoral candidate's project THESIS
Dog doc VET
Drained of energy SAPPED
Erect, with "up" PUT
Faculty head DEAN
Firebug's crime ARSON
Four, for most golf holes PAR
Gives a little BENDS
Go out with SEE
Golden-ager OLDSTER
Granola __ BAR
Heap, as of wood PILE
Hi-__ audio RES
Italian wine region ASTI
Clues Answers
Judicial orders WRITS
Line in pressed pants CREASE
Many a jayvee player SOPH
Mark with acid ETCH
Mix, as a liquid STIR
Movie theater feature SCREEN
Nest egg acronym IRA
Network junctions NODES
Oui's opposite NON
Periods of history ERAS
Picked up the check TREATED
Picture within a picture INSET
Prefix with dermis EPI
Put money in, as a parking meter FED
Recedes, like the tide EBBS
Reprimand CHIDE
Said further ADDED
Sci-fi visitor ALIEN
Señor's squiggle TILDE
Skimpy swimsuits THONGS
Sports blowout ROUT
Start the kitty ANTE
Take the gold WIN
Taken by mouth ORAL
Takes charge LEADS
Tell a tall tale LIE
Throbbed ACHED
Took the wheel STEERED
Trees with catkins ALDERS
Tribute in verse ODE
Venus de __ MILO
Wanton look LEER
Weeding tool HOE
Wile E. Coyote's supplier ACME
Wine list heading REDS
Winter neck warmer SCARF
Zesty dip for tortilla chips SALSA
__ Pujols, fourth MLBer to reach 6,000 total bases ALBERT
__ Raton, Fla BOCA