L.A. Times Daily - Aug 31 2025

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Clues Answers
"Fire away" ASK
"Good 4 U" singer Rodrigo OLIVIA
"Hungry hungry" animal in a kids game HIPPO
"I don't __ it" BUY
"It's Gonna Be Me" band NSYNC
"No __!" SIREE
"Poison" singer Ora RITA
"Shark Tank" network ABC
"Stop filming!" CUT
"Stop hogging it!" LETGO
"The Library Book" writer Susan ORLEAN
"The penny drops!" AHA
"Totally ready for the weekend!" TGIF
"Un __ Loco": "Coco" song POCO
"__ mio" OSOLE
"__ we all?" ARENT
*"C'mon, quit pretending to be confused!" OHYOUKNOWWHATIMSAYING
*"Free Your Mind" group ENVOGUE
*"Really, Captain Obvious?" GEEYATHINK
*Request for greater detail BEALITTLEMORESPECIFIC
*Visionary physicians? EYEDOCTORS
1990s treaty acronym NAFTA
Abbey space APSE
Accept terms AGREE
Ace NAIL
Afternoon snooze SIESTA
Aspiring J.D.s' exams LSATS
Autograph seeker's tool PEN
Baseless rumor CANARD
Before, in poems ERE
Brand with a Selena Gomez limited edition version OREO
Bring about, as mayhem WREAK
Butter portion PAT
Buys for, as a birthday dinner TREATSTO
Cause of a sticky situation GLUE
Central Asian mountain range ALTAI
Citi Field predecessor SHEA
Classic muscle car GTO
Coats with ganache, e.g ICES
College in Dublin TRINITY
Conditional release PAROLE
Conjure up EVOKE
Connection TIE
Cozy lodging INN
Cruising the Caribbean, maybe ASEA
Culinary school dough? TUITION
Deemed suitable SAWFIT
Disdain SCORN
Dull, figuratively VANILLA
Early app edition BETA
Egyptian river NILE
Egyptian viper ASP
End of a.m NOON
Enlist again REUP
Epiphany figures WISEMEN
Exquisite TODIEFOR
Exudes OOZES
Fair-hiring inits EEO
Field where accidents are common? TORTLAW
Fin. neighbor SWE
First words of many an alphabet book AIS
Follower of Jah RASTA
Georgia airport code ATL
Give off EMIT
Goat's bleat MAA
Goes bad ROTS
Groggy state DAZE
Groups of friends POSSES
Haha alternatives LOLS
Hotel gym, e.g AMENITY
Clues Answers
In __ event ANY
Inc., in Britain LTD
Incessantly NOEND
Input for some plagiarism detectors ESSAY
KenKen figs NOS
Lead by __ EXAMPLE
Lead-in to "op" SYS
Letters for a monarch HRH
Like show-offy pushups ONEARM
Listen clandestinely EAVESDROP
Lotus part PETAL
Mount also known as Kissavos OSSA
Muppet who lives in a recycling zone OSCAR
Nancy Drew's boyfriend NED
Nook's format, e.g ETEXT
Not alfresco INDOORS
Not backing ANTI
Orgs. that may serve as alternatives to hostels YMCAS
Partner MATE
Peruvian singer Sumac YMA
Poetic performers BARDS
Porto greeting OLA
Pride event PARADE
Pros who try to stay balanced? CPAS
Pub brew ALE
Pure joy BLISS
Question after a photo finish WHOWON
Raising agent YEAST
Ramona, per Beezus PEST
Rapace of "Prometheus" NOOMI
Reaching great heights TOWERING
React to a bad joke GROAN
Recurring theme MOTIF
Relax on the sofa VEG
Religious platform ALTAR
Return from vacation FLYHOME
Rice dish cooked in a wide pan PAELLA
Ring around a lagoon ATOLL
Rollaway bed COT
Romance AFFAIR
Rx regulator FDA
Saudi Arabia neighbor OMAN
See 3-Down MYBINGOCARD
Shadow TAIL
Slices and dices CHOPS
Small complaint NIT
Soccer star __ Heath TOBIN
Some concert merch TEES
Some send-ups SATIRES
Spots that might smear ATTACKADS
Stritch of Broadway ELAINE
Susan of "The Partridge Family" DEY
Swallowed ATE
Sweetie BABE
Taken together INTOTAL
Très très ULTRA
Try to hit, as a cat might a laser beam PAWAT
Unexpected problem SNAG
Uniform adornment EPAULET
Utility bill data USAGE
Vaccine molecule RNA
Vance of "I Love Lucy" VIVIAN
Wash. neighbor IDA
Wee ITTY
Where Penguins play on ice? ARENA
With 70-Down, "Never would've predicted this scenario," and what can be said about the first word of the answer to each starred clue? THATWASNTON
[I didn't get my way!] POUT
__ kwon do TAE
__ nous ENTRE
__ phone CELLULAR