L.A. Times Daily - Aug 28 2025

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Clues Answers
"Home on the Range" animal ANTELOPE
"The Marvelous __ Maisel" MRS
"Toy Story" dinosaur REX
"__ Faire": 2024 HBO docuseries REN
*Bon Jovi song with the lyric "Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear" LIVINONAPRAYER
*Depeche Mode song with the lyric "Reach out and touch faith" PERSONALJESUS
*Hozier song with the lyric "I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies" TAKEMETOCHURCH
Aesop racer HARE
Afore ERE
Ambiguous recipe amount SKOSH
Arab leader EMIR
Barnyard bleat MAA
Bible camp genre, or what the answers to the starred clues could be mistaken for? CHRISTIANROCK
Bird with large green eggs EMU
Bird with small blue eggs ROBIN
Broadway building THEATER
Colicchio of "Top Chef" TOM
Cry of pain YOW
Down SAD
Drug bust figure NARCO
Duty-free time LEISURE
Ecol. or geol SCI
Erodes bit by bit EATSINTO
Ferrera of "Barbie" AMERICA
Filmmaker Buñuel LUIS
Frenzied HECTIC
Gender-specific pronoun HER
Heartless fellow in Oz? TINMAN
Hybrid pastry since 2013 CRONUT
In medias __ RES
Included digitally CCED
Jacob who played Elvis in "Priscilla" ELORDI
Kind ILK
Loud noises DINS
Lucky Charms, e.g CEREAL
Mark for good ETCH
Clues Answers
Mom __ JEANS
Nail polish nicks CHIPS
Narrow waterway STRAIT
Not quite ALMOST
Olympic jump AXEL
Peeve RILE
Perfect score in some rating systems TEN
Persuade forcefully COERCE
Phil or Lil of "Rugrats," e.g TWIN
Power drill insert BIT
Prefix with center EPI
Prefix with port HELI
Ruins by overcooking BURNS
Ryder Cup org PGA
Shot ATTEMPT
SNAP system EBT
Snicker sound TEEHEE
Sonnets, odes, et al VERSE
Street __ CRED
Subj. with a lot of reading ENG
Swarm (with) TEEM
Tartufo ingredient GELATO
Team ldr MGR
Tick relatives MITES
Toronto-to-Quebec dir ENE
Totalitarian control IRONRULE
Trimming PRUNING
Undeclared: Abbr TBA
Units of resistance OHMS
Vinegar that may be drizzled over caprese salad BALSAMIC
Vow locale ALTAR
Warranted MERITED
Word with beer or wine MENU
[Skull emoji] IMDEAD
__ Mai: city in northern Thailand CHIANG
__ urchin SEA