L.A. Times Daily - Oct 7 2025

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Clues Answers
"Lilo & Stitch" costume accessory LEI
"Makes sense now" AHISEE
"RuPaul's Drag Race" segment featuring celebrity impressions SNATCHGAME
"Smile and be on your best behavior!" ACTNICE
"Whee!" SOFUN
Actress Thompson EMMA
Add a raised design to EMBOSS
Baby fox KIT
Bag-checking org TSA
Belly dancer's jewelry ANKLET
Bemoan LAMENT
Beyoncé, to the Beyhive IDOL
Bird feeder filler SEED
Body of water SEA
Boundary between land and water COASTLINE
Box set units DVDS
Bread served with biryani ROTI
Cairo's river NILE
Cake layer TIER
Caviar ROE
Chowder morsel CLAM
Come to a close END
Comedian who co-created the Netflix animated series "Big Mouth" NICKKROLL
Corp. leader CEO
Critical time DDAY
Cruise stopovers ISLES
Dana Bash's channel CNN
Dethrone OUST
Drink made with Earl Grey tea and steamed milk LONDONFOG
Earn after taxes NET
Film spools REELS
Fly or fish, for example VERB
Fly or fish, for example NOUN
Glum SAD
Go on a break, or what the starts of 16-, 20-, 32-, 43-, and 57-Across can be called TAKEFIVE
Helpful pointer TIP
High in the Alps? HAUTE
Houseplant that seldom needs watering ALOE
Iditarod town NOME
Clues Answers
Informed TOLD
Jeans fabric DENIM
Korean automaker KIA
Laborer PEON
Lion hoisted skyward during "Circle of Life" SIMBA
Lip balm brand EOS
Loch with a legend NESS
Loose-leaf beverage TEA
Luxury hotel chain HYATT
Mama's hermana TIA
Not infrequently OFTEN
October birthstone OPAL
Orbiting facility: Abbr ISS
Origami slipup TEAR
Posh neckwear ASCOT
Prefix with watts MEGA
Reject, on a dating app SWIPELEFT
Replace a player on the basepath PINCHRUN
Reverse UNDO
Scrabble piece TILE
Sharp noise BANG
Shrek's home SWAMP
Sibling's daughters NIECES
Ski resort pass LIFTTICKET
Small fruit pie TART
Someone to trail behind? HIKER
Story TALE
Stretch across SPAN
Tall circus performer's pair STILTS
Terse confession IDID
Top poker cards ACES
Unit of magnetic flux density TESLA
Unlike 18-Across MALE
Use bleach on a load of colored laundry, say ERR
Warnings CAVEATS
Works the first shift at a café, say OPENS
Yosemite Valley landmark, for short ELCAP
Younger "ManningCast" host ELI
__ de gallo PICO