L.A. Times Daily - May 16 2025

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Clues Answers
"Copacabana" showgirl LOLA
"Embrace the glorious __ that you are": Elizabeth Gilbert MESS
"That's gonna leave a mark!" OOF
Aquarium fish TETRA
Best or bests TOPS
Blasted DARN
Bo nds SEVEREDTIES
Botanical reproductive unit SPORE
Brief weather event? TSTORM
Cain genre NOIR
Campaign topic ISSUE
Caravan rest stops OASES
Chipper greeting HIHO
Co-worker of Jamie, Alan, and Mara, in Progressive ads FLO
Comic-con attendee with pointy ears, maybe TREKKIE
Creature of Jewish folklore GOLEM
Dark site of the moon? SEA
Decided in favor of OPTEDTO
Didn't answer immediately SLEPTON
Dressage pace TROT
Egg pouches SACS
Family KIN
Feel sick AIL
Fi rm PARTEDCOMPANY
Folks who might say, "Curses! Foiled again!"? FENCERS
Formal, in a way DRESSY
Fortes METIERS
French noun suffix IERE
Fruit in some gin SLOE
Get the drift, perhaps SCAN
Gettysburg address feature? EDU
Half-__: latte spec CAF
Hard-to-read people ENIGMAS
Intel collected during a race OPPO
Intercontinental range URALS
Jaws YAKS
Clues Answers
Kick TANG
Laugh good and hard ROAR
Like overripe bananas SPOTTED
Many Ikea purchases, essentially KITS
Members of a sub group HOAGIES
Menu selection ENTREE
Minor offense PECCADILLO
Org. with Kings and Knights NHL
Overlord of the rings, for short? IOC
Pa ss SPLITTICKET
Petulant TESTY
Planters SOWERS
Rhapsodize GUSH
Shape made with a pencil and string ARC
Shis hito CRACKEDPEPPER
Skating great Yamaguchi KRISTI
Skating hazard THINICE
Slick one FASTTALKER
Slightly in front UPONE
Slime GOO
Some NASA missions EVAS
Sought office RAN
Soundless messaging syst ASL
Switch TRADE
Those, in Spanish ESAS
Underwhelming argument WEAKTEA
Urges YENS
Verb with thou SAYST
Willing (to) GLAD
Wilt DROOP
Word on some European notes SUISSE
Word with hand or saw OLD
Words of understanding ISEE
__ bar FIG
__ bene NOTA
__ jockey DISC