L.A. Times Daily - May 24 2025

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Clues Answers
"Let's be __" CLEAR
"Long Division" novelist who wrote "Heavy: An American Memoir" KIESELAYMON
"Neat" COOL
"Neat" SWELL
"Reacher" star Ritchson ALAN
"Shōgun," for one EPICDRAMA
"__ Explain Things to Me": Rebecca Solnit essay collection MEN
2, 4, and 24, e.g EVENS
2022 "Predator" prequel PREY
Angle type ACUTE
Ballet bend PLIE
Brahma, for one GOD
China's first imperial dynasty QIN
Commits to, in a way WEDS
Cubano ingredient HAM
Dialectical source of "no cap" and "down bad," for short AAVE
Does as asked OBLIGES
Duds NONEVENTS
Far from fresh OVERUSED
Fiction title? MISNOMER
Focus of many fandom wiki pages LORE
Foreign exchange issue LANGUAGEBARRIER
Fried __: fair fare OREOS
Frymaster filler HOTOIL
Gaming release of 1985 NES
Get it wrong ERR
Giving a bit of color TINGING
Going from A to B, say LINEAR
Grocery payment meth EBT
Hand sanitizer brand PURELL
Harlem theater APOLLO
Human rights activist Eckstein who is profiled in Season 4 of the "Making Gay History" podcast ERNESTINE
Iberian country, on Olympic scoreboards POR
Imposition lead-in IMTERRIBLYSORRY
Journey part LEG
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Knowledgeable VERSED
Lowest-tier WORST
Many a TV episode title PUN
Marsha Warfield's "Night Court" role ROZ
Negative post? PRE
Not busy AROUND
Pacific counterpart QUARRELSOME
Paul with an axe LES
Point guard? PENCAP
Precipitated LEDTO
Public ONRECORD
Put right IRONEDOUT
React slightly BATANEYE
Relaxation locations SPAS
Rihanna song with the lyrics "That was quite a show / Very entertaining / But it's over now" TAKEABOW
Rose barb THORN
Save, in a way DVR
Search thoroughly COMB
Setting for Haiti EASTERNTIMEZONE
Show a tell LETON
Sierra __ MADRE
Some deli loaves RYES
Supreme Court name ELENA
Supreme Court name SONIA
The Grand __ Opry OLE
Trick GET
Trick CON
Tutor's charge MENTEE
Uber around the Eiffel Tower? TRES
Uncles, in Spanish TIOS
Upper management? HAIRCARE
Wave home OCEAN
Wide bowl BASIN
Word for "stick" found in a Bay Area city name PALO
Ye __ Shoppe OLDE