L.A. Times Daily - Dec 14 2022

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Clues Answers
"Dang!" DRAT
"Don't move!" STAYHERE
"It's curtains for me!" IMTOAST
"Long story short ... " INSUM
"No Scrubs" pop trio TLC
"The Princess Diaries" novelist Cabot MEG
1980s Pontiacs FIEROS
Aces EXPERTS
Acts like a helicopter parent HOVERS
Barnyard bird HEN
Baseball hats CAPS
Baseball's "Iron Man" Ripken CAL
Bath rug MAT
Best-liked, in texts FAV
Brand of sport sandals TEVA
Bun holder HAIRTIE
Catkin trees ALDERS
Domed building ROTUNDA
EMT skill CPR
Exams for srs SATS
Floppy successors CDROMS
Fresnel __: lighthouse installation LENS
Get beaten by LOSETO
Gobble (up) SNARF
Golden Rule preposition UNTO
Grace of "Will & Grace" ADLER
Halve BISECT
Home of Firenze ITALIA
Home of the Munch Museum OSLO
Incentives MOTIVES
Jekyll's alter ego HYDE
Kiss SMOOCH
Lizzo genre RAP
Longtime ThinkPad maker IBM
Mardi Gras accessories MASKS
McFlurry cookies OREOS
Members of a cabal, maybe SCHEMERS
Clues Answers
Most aged OLDEST
Nabisco brand CHIPSAHOY
One-named "Baby Beluga" singer RAFFI
Part of a schmear campaign? LOX
Part of STEM, briefly TECH
Party coolerful ICE
Poet Dove RITA
Practice boxing SPAR
Promised SWORE
Río contents AGUA
Real blankety-blank SOANDSO
Samoan capital APIA
Scotland yards? METRES
See 12-Across NOGAIN
See 22-Across NOFUSS
See 30-Across NOFOUL
See 44-Across NOSHOW
Silver State city RENO
Simple camera setting AUTO
Sleeping sickness carrier TSETSEFLY
Takes interest, maybe LENDS
Tennis pundit Shriver PAM
Unopened NEW
Wall, in Spanish MURO
With 12-Down, mantra on embracing difficulty NOPAIN
With 22-Down, idiom meaning "easy peasy" NOMUSS
With 30-Down, aphorism excusing misconduct that didn't cause damage NOHARM
With 44-Down, expression describing an absence without leave NOCALL
Worker's hourly pay WAGE
Young'uns KIDDOS
__ and reel ROD
__ Andreas Fault SAN
__ Aviv TEL
__ bene NOTA
__ gin fizz SLOE
__ projection ASTRAL
__ roast: Sunday entrée RUMP