L.A. Times Daily - Oct 12 2025

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"Boom Boom" blues legend JOHNLEEHOOKER
"Candyman" director DaCosta NIA
"Dos Mujeres" painter KAHLO
"How many sugars?," quaintly ONELUMPORTWO
"I can't wait!" OHBOY
"Let's do it!" hashtag YOLO
"My stars!" EGADS
"North to the Future" state ALASKA
"West Coast" singer Lana Del __ REY
"What a shame" THATSTOOBAD
"Yer lyin'!" AINTSO
"You know you want to!" CMON
"You __ it to yourself ... " OWE
"__ and the Bandit" SMOKEY
"__ complicated" ITS
Activist Yoko ONO
Actor Funches of Apple TV+'s "Loot" RON
Actress Bailey HALLE
Alpine course SKISLOPE
Animation collectibles CELS
Approach that emphasizes fundamentals BACKTOBASICS
Artemis org NASA
Ashore, perhaps ONLEAVE
Barely sufficient MEAGER
Baseball team's starting lineup, e.g NONET
Big Apple team YANKS
Billy of "Titanic" ZANE
Breakfast sometimes prepared overnight OATS
Brutish Tolkien characters ORCS
Call made behind one's back? BUTTDIAL
Can refuse to NEEDNT
Capacious craft ARK
Charcuterie board selections SALAMIS
Checkbook no ACCT
Clark from Smallville KENT
Clear of condensation DEFOG
Colorful character? ROYGBIV
Country with a Persian-speaking majority IRAN
Court target HOOP
Decides OPTS
Dig like a pig ROOT
Disentangles UNTIES
Dish in a bowl SOUP
Div. of Labor OSHA
Drink with a domed lid ICEE
Episcopal figure VICAR
Explorer Erikson LEIF
Feel rotten AIL
Final: Abbr ULT
Flanged support pieces IBARS
Flix sister station TMC
Floor plan unit ROOM
Focal points LOCI
Football features LACES
Footwear for boulderers, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters CLIMBINGSHOES
Fortnite Frenz 4 Ever Blaster, for one NERFGUN
Furnace meas BTU
Gardner of "Show Boat" AVA
Govt. securities TBILLS
Group that can play a symphony PHILHARMONICORCHESTRA
Guaranteed winner SUREBET
Helmet feature VISOR
Herb on a bánh mì sandwich CILANTRO
Ho-hum BLAH
Holiday cusp EVE
Hoppy beer ALE
Hygiene tool on a spool DENTALFLOSS
Into the latest gadgets TECHY
Islanders' NHL division, familiarly METRO
Just OK AVERAGE
Knock, in slang DIS
Knucklehead LUNK
Clues Answers
Lake near Carson City TAHOE
LAX clock setting PST
Leafy vegetable CHARD
Lee with two Best Director Oscars ANG
Like axolotls MEXICAN
List of specialized terms GLOSSARY
Long-legged wader IBIS
Loves to bits ADORES
Made a two-piece chess move CASTLED
Milk source in the Sahara CAMEL
Mocked playfully NEEDLED
More opalescent MILKIER
Mountain pose, for one ASANA
Multivolume ref OED
Mural on plaster FRESCO
Not cool UNHIP
Nursery containers POTS
Omega preceder PSI
One on the stump ORATOR
Operational launch time HHOUR
Patterned after ALA
Persuasive columns OPEDS
Pester NAG
Pet welfare org ASPCA
Phonetic symbol SCHWA
Powerful engine named for its shape VTEN
Prefix with natal NEO
Pres. who created the "alphabet agencies" FDR
Production SHOW
Ready for a break TIRED
Rescue op EVAC
Restaurant chain co-founded by chef Matsuhisa NOBU
Retired record holder? IPOD
River project DAM
Salmon, to bears PREY
Sandos with two spreads PBJS
Sass CHEEK
Scrub, as a mission ABORT
Seeks information ASKS
Select with a mouse CLICK
Siglo de __: era of El Greco and Cervantes ORO
Snatch quickly GRAB
South Indian rice cake IDLI
Specter WRAITH
Spoke like a boxer BARKED
Sporty car roof TTOP
Squiggly letter ESS
Star's entourage POSSE
Stayed in line OBEYED
Stealthy flyers OWLS
Stick on a pub wall POOLCUE
Stuff in a pump bottle SOAP
Stumble over TRIPON
Stunned state DAZE
Subject that includes gender theory SEXOLOGY
Subject that includes set theory MATH
Sustained attack SIEGE
Toffee candy bar SKOR
Treats flavored with syrup SNOCONES
Unoriginal reply ECHO
USPS abbr AVE
Walled Spanish city AVILA
Went in circles GYRATED
Wildlife refuges DENS
Williams with four Olympic gold medals VENUS
Word rapper Bow Wow dropped from his stage name LIL
Workplaces for triage nurses: Abbr ERS
Yours, in hymns THINE
__ compass MORAL
__ Loops FROOT
__ Raton BOCA
__ the bill FOOTS