L.A. Times Daily - Dec 26 2022

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Clues Answers
"Hello... hello... hello...," e.g ECHO
"It's __-win situation" ANO
"Sour grapes" critter FOX
"The Matrix" hero NEO
"Veep" actress Chlumsky ANNA
*Like a game that involves evasive subterfuge CATANDMOUSE
*Migratory honker CANADAGOOSE
*Pink flower native to eastern North America CAROLINAROSE
ABBA hit with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" WATERLOO
Actress Russo RENE
Anklebones TALI
Apple computers MACS
Bathroom accessory SCALE
Bowlers and berets HATS
Cab TAXI
Campaign button word ELECT
Certain partner WIFE
Chapel centerpiece ALTAR
Checkers or chess GAME
Cherished DEAR
Chief Valhalla god ODIN
Chutney fruit MANGO
Climbing tool for frozen surfaces ICEAX
Clock sound TICK
Craft beer letters IPA
Deal (with) COPE
Each, informally APOP
Electrical pioneer Nikola TESLA
Eyes a bull's-eye, say AIMS
Fashion monthly ELLE
Friendly send-off TAKECARE
From this point forward HENCE
Garden growth PLANT
Guitarist Lofgren NILS
Joint between the foot and the hip KNEE
Latest craze MANIA
Leftover EXTRA
Level EVEN
Clues Answers
Low on funds SHORT
Makes less unruly TAMES
Male deer STAG
Mexican state bordering Arizona SONORA
Not back-to-back with FACING
Not of the clergy LAIC
Oodles ALOT
Paper size longer than letter LEGAL
Parcel out ALLOT
Pays for everyone TREATS
Perjurers LIARS
Piano piece ETUDE
Prefix with -logue EPI
Prescribed amount DOSE
Private aid gps NGOS
Quick snooze NAP
Reading lights LAMPS
Reptile in the Chinese zodiac SNAKE
Sacred song PSALM
Searches for SEEKS
See 28-Down BEAR
Sign gas NEON
Smell, for one SENSE
Solve a mystery, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues CRACKTHECASE
Sound system STEREO
Start of the alphabet song ABC
Tailor's line SEAM
Tehran's land IRAN
Tennis star Sharapova MARIA
To no __: without success AVAIL
U.K. lawmakers MPS
Underwater detector SONAR
Very long story SAGA
Warning sound from a rattlesnake HISS
Welcome sight in the desert OASIS
With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft MAMA
WNW's opposite ESE
__-esteem SELF