L.A. Times Daily - Feb 20 2023

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Clues Answers
"Chocolat" actress Olin LENA
"Let's Make a Deal" host Brady WAYNE
"The door's open!" ENTER
"There's a nonzero chance ... " ODDSARE
"Whoa, trippy!" DEEP
*One who can't help but see the bright side ETERNALOPTIMIST
*Private fashion consultant PERSONALSHOPPER
*Sincere intention to be fair GOODFAITHEFFORT
18-Down seed SPORE
Assignment for a swimmer or a bowler LANE
Beat TEMPO
Biblical ark builder NOAH
Bibliography abbreviation IBID
Bread served with hummus PITA
Busy airports HUBS
Bygone GM line OLDS
Central Pennsylvania city ALTOONA
Chicago winter hrs CST
Coastal inlet RIA
Comparable (to) AKIN
Copier cartridge TONER
Currency named for a continent EURO
Feeling of existential boredom ENNUI
Fill with passion INFLAME
Follows an obedience school command SITS
Former Georgia senator Sam NUNN
Furniture chain that also sells lingonberry preserves IKEA
Go-to crew ATEAM
Goes up RISES
Granny NANA
Green animals in Angry Birds PIGS
Have a spoonful, say TASTE
Heavy book TOME
Houseplant with fronds FERN
Imperfection FLAW
Ireland, to the Irish EIRE
Joan of __: French heroine ARC
Journalist Paula ZAHN
Led Zeppelin's "Whole __ Love" LOTTA
Clues Answers
Like Cheerios OATY
Lowly workers PEONS
Luv HON
Make fun of RAZZ
Match a bet, in poker CALL
Mouthed (off) SPOUTED
Mythical menace OGRE
Near-beer name ODOUL
NFL official REF
Ore deposit LODE
Oscar winner Catherine __-Jones ZETA
Pampering place SPA
Potato spot EYE
Reason for a courtroom objection, and what the start of the answer to each starred clue has LEADINGQUESTION
Red gemstone RUBY
Reply to "Ya dig?" IMHIP
Rock formation in Yosemite, familiarly ELCAP
Salad fish TUNA
See 64-Down FLOE
Sight or smell SENSE
Silly activity ANTIC
Simple fastener SNAP
Slangy turndowns NAHS
Slender woodwind OBOE
Some Wall St. deals LBOS
Songs for two DUETS
Songwriter Tori AMOS
Sport played on horseback POLO
Stud farm stud SIRE
Sunflower St. school KSU
Sunup direction EAST
Teal shade AQUA
Unworried state EASE
Welcomed at the door ASKEDIN
With 52-Across, floating Arctic sheet ICE
Writer Bombeck ERMA
Zebra hunter LION
__ appeal SNOB
__-pitch softball SLO