L.A. Times Daily - Jul 16 2025

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Clues Answers
"Butter" K-pop group BTS
"Homemade" pasta sauce maker RAO
"I've got this!" ONIT
"Karate Kid" spinoff series COBRAKAI
"Oh, that's what you mean" AHA
"The Graham Norton Show" airer BBC
"Then what happened?" AND
"Tsk!" TUT
Act as an intermediary LIAISE
Bounce SPLIT
Buzzing insect BEE
Camping appliance HOTPLATE
Certain sib BRO
Cobra's warning HISS
Coos Bay-to-Portland dir NNE
Cris Cyborg stat KOS
Dearie HON
Decline, with "out" OPT
Desert that's home to the world's rarest bear GOBI
Diary sheet PAGE
Diner pour JOE
Does sums ADDS
Explosive stuff TNT
Exposes, as fangs BARES
Fax forerunner TELEX
Final parts, and what this puzzle's circled letters create TAILENDS
Fish that can shock its prey EEL
Full house, at times WINNINGHAND
Garlicky shrimp dish SCAMPI
Globe ORB
Grab NAB
Headwear at a 29-Down COWBOYHAT
Health law since 2010, initially ACA
Historian __ Kearns Goodwin DORIS
Joined the military ENLISTED
Lab procedure TEST
Lifting a beer bottle with just a straw, e.g BARTRICK
Longtime "Washington Week" journalist Ifill GWEN
Mail ctrs GPOS
Clues Answers
Major work OPUS
Many a Qatari ARAB
Mar.-to-Nov. hrs DST
Mariner's shout AVAST
Most faithful TRUEST
New Jersey nickname GARDENSTATE
Not on edge ATEASE
NYC bus org MTA
Owner of a bed deemed too hard PAPA
Parking area LOT
Polynesian taro dish POI
Princeton URL suffix EDU
Puccini opera set in Rome TOSCA
Purple yam UBE
Puts up, as a painting HANGS
Reacts to a tell-all, maybe GASPS
Rental for a night of revelry PARTYBUS
Rhinoplasty, informally NOSEJOB
Shell product GAS
Some fine art OILS
Spooky decoration COBWEB
Sport with roping and riding RODEO
Square, e.g POLYGON
Stable fare HAY
Strength SINEW
Stuffed to the gills SATED
Tech __: coder's concern DEBT
Tee fabric COTTON
Theme park with a geodesic dome EPCOT
Trail sighting HIKER
Trees used for longbows YEWS
Upstate New York lake ONEIDA
Utopias EDENS
Vino that doesn't require a corkscrew BOXEDWINE
Yellowjacket kin HORNET
Young'uns TYKES
Young'uns KIDDOS
__ dog: dachshund WIENER
__-garde AVANT