L.A. Times Daily - Aug 18 2025

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Clues Answers
"Bridgerton" title LORD
"I teach geometry, so I know all the __": math professor's quip ANGLES
"Shiny Happy People" band REM
"Starman" singer David BOWIE
"You've never __ so good" HADIT
Achieve fame ARRIVE
Against ANTI
Alias letters AKA
Ankle-length skirt MAXI
Apple tablets IPADS
Arancini ingredient RICE
Archer's asset AIM
Archipelago unit ISLET
Assets and liabilities statement BALANCESHEET
Atlantic, for one OCEAN
Avant-garde CUTTINGEDGE
Baking amts TSPS
Bike parts GEARS
Cabin timber PINE
Cave mammal BAT
Chamber music configuration OCTET
Cleveland's lake ERIE
Colorful parrot MACAW
Compete in a slalom SKI
Confident stride STRUT
Core belief TENET
Deliver a speech ORATE
Doesn't disturb LETSBE
Dozes (off) NODS
Feasted on ATE
Feel under the weather AIL
Fix, as a fight RIG
Flair ELAN
Flamenco cry OLE
Follow covertly TAIL
Great suffering MISERY
Gumbo thickener ROUX
Heritage celebrated in May, for short AAPI
Hoity-toity type SNOB
Clues Answers
Hollywood ending? DEE
Idyllic place EDEN
Illumination that sets a tone MOODLIGHTING
King Arthur's realm CAMELOT
Lang. of Rome ITAL
Like some histories ORAL
List of top-scoring players, and what the start of 17-, 23-, 39-, or 51-Across could be called? LEADERBOARD
Live and breathe EXIST
Marine apex predator ORCA
Molecule makeup ATOMS
Night before EVE
Observe SEE
Organized workflow SYSTEM
Pass over SKIP
Pirouetting, say ONTOE
Positives UPSIDES
Rashida's "Parks and Recreation" role ANN
Related (to) AKIN
Repeated word in a Doris Day classic SERA
Run an email scam PHISH
Salty expanse SEA
Scents such as freshly baked bread and clean laundry AROMAS
Send to voicemail, perhaps IGNORE
Singer Diamond NEIL
Soldier trained in first aid MEDIC
Sopping WET
Storylines ARCS
Stylistic faux pas that puts an editor between a rock and a black sheep? MIXINGMETAPHORS
Tabby CAT
Take potshots (at) SNIPE
Tear (apart) RIP
Unaccompanied ALONE
Was victorious WON
Zilch NONE
Zoom devices, familiarly CAMS
__ Creed: Mass recitation NICENE
__ division LONG
__ upon a time ONCE
__ Vegas Aces LAS