L.A. Times Daily - Aug 17 2025

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Clues Answers
"Aladdin" title SULTAN
"Clueless" source novel EMMA
"Gloria in Excelsis __" DEO
"I'll keep opening briefcases, Howie!" NODEAL
"Inside Out" kid RILEY
"Oh, of course!" DUH
"Origin" director DuVernay AVA
"Pull up __" ASEAT
"Start already!" GETONIT
"The Dark Knight __" RISES
"The Phantom Tollbooth" author Juster NORTON
"The Pitt" figs MDS
"Yee-__!" HAW
"You're accusing me!?" MOI
106-Down portrayer McGregor EWAN
22-Across variation in a birdcage? BESWEETPARAKEET
22-Across variation in a desert? INASHAKERATTLESNAKE
22-Across variation in a flower garden? BYEBYEBUTTERFLY
22-Across variation in a forest? TAKECAREGRIZZLYBEAR
22-Across variation in Ontario? HANGLOOSECANADAGOOSE
Above, poetically OER
Accumulate AMASS
Acrobat's attire UNITARD
Activate ENABLE
Actress Poehler AMY
Amble (along) TOOTLE
Ancient harp LYRE
Anxiety from social media scrolling, for short FOMO
Appear SEEM
Assembled on-site PREFAB
Averred SAIDSO
Barely achieved, with "out" EKED
Benjamin CNOTE
Biblical disciple APOSTLE
Bichon frise bark YIP
Broken wagon part in Oregon Trail WHEEL
Brontë's Jane EYRE
Catalan sparkling wine CAVA
Cautionary __ TALE
Certain delivery worker? STORK
Challenging bio course APCLASS
Chicago airport code ORD
City in western Germany ESSEN
Clarinetist's supply REEDS
Common houseplant FERN
Cpls.' superiors SGTS
Cutesy TWEE
Davis of "The Fly" GEENA
Disinfectant brand LYSOL
Dots PERIODS
East Coast mini-mart WAWA
Edit __: battles on Wikipedia WARS
Evergreen seed PINENUT
Film without a major studio INDIE
Finish, as a crossword, e.g SOLVE
Four Corners state UTAH
Francia's neighbor ESPANA
Friendly prefix ECO
Garden bed planting BULB
Graf below a headline LEDE
Icy, as a glare STEELY
In and of itself PERSE
Inspire ELICIT
Insta grid item PIC
Iroquois nation SENECA
Items of varying comfort for Goldilocks BEDS
Jennifer of "Murder Mystery" ANISTON
Language from which "curry" is derived TAMIL
Lighten (up) EASE
Like a network used in machine learning NEURAL
Clues Answers
Like characters that lean one way? ITALIC
Likeness IMAGE
Lithe SVELTE
Loathe ABHOR
Low-budget pub ZINE
Make up (for) ATONE
Member of the fam SIS
Member of the fam BRO
Millipede's multitude LEGS
Mined resource ORE
Misery WOE
Not in the closet OUT
One-seventh of una semana DIA
Orb weaver's creation WEB
Ovens for buns, but not loaves WOMBS
Part of a pronoun pair SHE
Part of the hook in a 2007 Rihanna hit ELLA
Party balloon filler HELIUM
Perform repetitive movements to self-soothe, say STIM
Pesto __ Genovese ALLA
Peter's adversary in a Prokofiev composition WOLF
Piscina filler AGUA
Playable on a VCR TAPED
Poi source TARO
Poker proclamation ICALL
Polish currency ZLOTY
Porterhouse, e.g STEAK
Principals' org NEA
Pt. of HDTV DEF
Query ASK
Recedes EBBS
Require NEED
Response to "See ya later, alligator" AFTERAWHILECROCODILE
Rough it in comfort GLAMP
Santa __ winds ANA
Satellite dish spot ROOF
Scapegoats PATSIES
Segment of a Taylor Swift show ERA
Set of grading criteria RUBRIC
Silencing button MUTE
Sketch comedy series starring Odenkirk and Cross MRSHOW
Skywalker mentor KENOBI
Some fitness orgs YMCAS
Some recital attendees DADS
Soprano solo ARIA
Spoke like a cat MEOWED
SpongeBob's pet, for one SNAIL
Stallone franchise RAMBO
Starts using, as an accent ADOPTS
Studio Ghibli film about a magical goldfish PONYO
Subdivision SECTOR
Supplant OUST
Sweep under the rug HUSHUP
Tahoe or Huron LAKE
Tax doc IDs SSNS
Téa of "Death of a Unicorn" LEONI
The "U" in EULA USER
The NCAA's Tigers LSU
Thigh-high waterproof boots WADERS
Troy tech univ RPI
Truth or __ DARE
Twitch currency BITS
Used in beta TESTED
Voices above tenors ALTOS
Volcanic fallout ASH
Wife, in 101-Down ESPOSA
Wipe away ERASE
__ fin DORSAL
__ Lama DALAI
__ poetry SLAM