L.A. Times Daily - Jun 8 2025

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Clues Answers
"For __ strange reason ... " SOME
"Hold your horses!" WAITASEC
"Incredible!" OOH
"Just kidding!" NOT
"Odyssey" peak OSSA
"Scotland the Brave" musicians PIPERS
"The Tell-Tale Heart" author POE
"Tiny Beautiful Things" star Kathryn HAHN
11-Across locale KNEE
16-Down plus one TRIO
Achieve greatness GOFAR
Actor/activist Davis OSSIE
Ailment treated with an inhaler ASTHMA
Alleviate EASE
Allure TEMPT
Animated clownfish NEMO
Assails HASAT
Asylum seeker EMIGRE
Attire suitable to get married in? UNIONJACKET
Baby elephant CALF
Bartlett cousins BOSCS
Bear with a medium-sized chair MAMA
Brief mystery writer? ANON
British pub offering DRAUGHT
Buzzing with energy WIRED
Calibri alternative ARIAL
Camouflages HIDES
Canadian units of distance, familiarly KMS
Capote, familiarly TRU
Card in a royal flush ACE
Carrier based in Kuala Lumpur AIRASIA
Church nooks APSES
Classic Japanese drama NOH
Cook in a basket, perhaps STEAM
Corners, as the king MATES
Corp. makeover REORG
Country with many hot springs ICELAND
Cry from an impatient attendee at a NASA launch ceremony? LESSTALKMOREROCKET
Curler's target? LASH
D.C. VIP POL
Daughter of 52-Across LISA
Dice game CRAPS
Dined while pregnant, facetiously ATEFORTWO
Direct STEER
Director's call ACTION
Distant APART
Driving platforms? TEES
Dutch export EDAM
EMT training subj CPR
Ex-U.N. head Annan KOFI
Exhibit SHOW
Existential question to a parking enforcer? WHATMAKESYOUTICKET
Exit CLEAROUT
Experienced veterans OLDTIMERS
Fatal DEADLY
Father of Luke and Leia ANAKIN
Fine mount STEED
Fleecy boot brand UGG
Fly catcher? MITT
Game played by hitting putts from 12 spots around a hole CLOCKGOLF
German mountains ALPEN
Give a leg up BOOST
Glute exercise SQUAT
Groomer's concern COAT
Hamilton bill TEN
Hastily crafted water carrier? QUICKBUCKET
Head out to sea SETSAIL
Heartbeat check, for short ECG
Hesitant sounds UHS
Hot EROTIC
Clues Answers
In direct competition TOETOTOE
Includes in a card game DEALSTO
Jazzy improv HORNSOLO
Land in la mer ILE
Lay down the lawn SOD
Lentil dish DAL
Letter-shaped support IBAR
Like a competitive day on the course UNDERPAR
Like a welcoming policy OPENDOOR
Like the lion killed by Hercules NEMEAN
List of maritime court cases? FISHINGDOCKET
Literary understatement such as "not unhappy" LITOTES
Long-eared equine ASS
Manually BYHAND
Musician Kravitz LENNY
Nasdaq purchase STK
News team member COANCHOR
Oft-torn 103-Down pt ACL
Olympic skater Oksana BAIUL
Omar of "Power Book III: Raising Kanan" EPPS
One on a slippery slope? SKIER
Out of business SHUT
Pair DUO
Pallid ASHY
Panicked shout from a driving instructor BRAKE
Paul of "The Kominsky Method" REISER
Personal feats BESTS
Piece of a circle's circumference ARC
Potato's partner, in a classic soup LEEK
Prepare for shipping PACKUP
Protest led by reviewers seeking higher wages? CRITICSPICKET
R&B's __ Hill DRU
Red-hot anger IRE
Repairs, as a driveway TARS
Retired flier SST
Revere ADORE
Robin Williams role in "Aladdin" GENIE
Rockies resort town ASPEN
Sanctioned OKED
Sault __ Marie STE
Schmeared bread BAGEL
Scout's find TALENT
Sculling blade OAR
Seemingly high-class, familiarly BOUGIE
Sham FAKE
Sharer's adjective OURS
Simpson, née Bouvier MARGE
Sitcom starring Valerie Harper RHODA
Snail-paced SLOW
Sudanese model Wek ALEK
Things thrown in a fight FISTS
Tolkien beast ORC
Top tracks HITS
TurboTax alternative, briefly CPA
Turntable pros DJS
Underground cumin trade? SPICERACKET
Understand GROK
Uninspired name for a Dalmatian SPOT
View from the bottom bunk SLATS
Votes for YESES
Wanders around LAX? TSA
What "swish" shots miss RIMS
When doubled, a New Wave band DURAN
With it ALLTHERE
Wraps up ENDS
Zillow listing HOUSESALE
__ Haute TERRE
__ Jose SAN
__ Park, Colorado ESTES
__ saint PATRON