L.A. Times Daily - Feb 28 2022

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Clues Answers
"500" race, familiarly INDY
"Aw shucks" quality MODESTY
"Chopsticks __ fork?" ORA
"Hmm ... doubt it" UHNO
"Oof!" YIKES
"SNL" alum Gasteyer ANA
"Time to stop obsessing on this" LETITGO
Abel and Cain, to Adam and Eve SONS
Adept ABLE
Apt "it's" anagram TIS
Armored vehicle TANK
Art Deco artist ERTE
Articulated SAID
Asian beef city KOBE
Automobile CAR
Avoid, as duty SHIRK
Barcelona boy NINO
Brewery need YEAST
Broadway event SHOW
Colgate rival ORALB
Covert ops outfit CAMO
Cutesy nose-poke word BOOP
Dark beer STOUT
Declare AVER
Depend (on) HINGE
Diane's "Cheers" co-server CARLA
Diver's rotation SOMERSAULT
Dull pain ACHE
Duties TASKS
Dwarf planting BONSAI
Ethan or Joel of film COEN
Fey with nine Emmys TINA
Fleecy females EWES
Fruit whose oil is used in cooking OLIVE
Greek B BETA
Hanukkah pancakes LATKES
Hawaiian greeting ALOHA
Hunger signs that hurt PANGS
Indian spiced tea CHAI
Clues Answers
Joint above the ankle KNEE
Like civilizations that antedate written records PREHISTORIC
Mind-matter link OVER
Montreal MLBer before 2005 EXPO
Nine-piece combo NONET
Official inspection spot CHECKPOINT
One of the senses TASTE
One who comes to the rescue HERO
Onetime Ralston cereal now owned by General Mills CHEX
Part of BSA: Abbr AMER
Pâté de __ gras FOIE
Pigeon sound COO
Play a part (in) ACT
Podded plant PEA
Ponder (over) MULL
Pop singer's list of recordings, e.g DISCOGRAPHY
Pre-bedtime coffee, often DECAF
President with degrees from Columbia and Harvard OBAMA
Racetrack shape OVAL
Reggae relative SKA
Root for a luau TARO
Scourge BANE
Sourced locally, as a menu FARMTOTABLE
Subtle element in a success story ... and what's revealed by each set of circles SECRETSAUCE
Taiwanese bubble tea BOBA
Take a chance on RISK
Tiny colonist ANT
Traditional piano key wood EBONY
Tres menos uno DOS
Tripartite commerce pact acronym NAFTA
U. of Maryland athlete TERP
Unseating plan? COUP
Very much ALOT
Vietnamese New Year TET
Wine lover's prefix OENO
Wound cover SCAB
Writers' tools PENS
Yawn-inducing BANAL
__ Rae, Sally Field role NORMA