L.A. Times Daily - Nov 2 2025

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Clues Answers
"Citizen Kane" director Welles ORSON
"Evita" name PERON
"Fighting" team of the Big Ten ILLINI
"Hedda" actress Thompson TESSA
"L'Absinthe" painter DEGAS
"Nosferatu" actress Lily-Rose DEPP
"Se __ español" HABLA
"Ur so funny!" HAHA
"Whiskey Lullaby" singer Paisley BRAD
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" band WAR
"__ percent of the game is half mental": Yogi Berra quip about baseball NINETY
2-Down's love interest ERIC
Abel's brother CAIN
Angel hair and linguine PASTAS
Arrogant SMUG
Biblical mariner NOAH
Big name in gummy bears HARIBO
Blessed event? SNEEZE
Blow up, in a way TREND
Butterfly honorific, for short MME
Candle threads WICKS
Catch NAB
Chipper SPRY
Classic quilted handbag maker CHANEL
Closes SHUTS
Coin from the Royal Mint SOVEREIGN
Combat caregiver MEDIC
Comforting touches PATS
Concern ISSUE
Court fig ATT
Cradle of the Inca Empire PERU
Cunning GUILE
Curry favor with WOO
Dance of the anglers? SANDDABDAB
Dance of the flamboyant? SHOWPONYPONY
Dance of the homebodies? PORCHSWINGSWING
Dance of the investigators? WIRETAPTAP
Dance of the moonlighters? SIDEHUSTLEHUSTLE
Dance of the mothers-to-be? BABYBUMPBUMP
Dance of the pickpockets? OLIVERTWISTTWIST
Devoured ATEUP
Drive up a phone bill, in a way ROAM
E'en if THO
Evasive maneuver ENDRUN
Evergreen with upright cones FIR
Facts, for short INFO
Final Four venue ARENA
First-year student working toward a JD ONEL
Flag TIRE
Fruity, frozen desserts SHERBETS
Garden spot EDEN
Get teary CRY
Give kudos at a poetry slam SNAP
Gleam SHINE
Goddess of marriage HERA
H.E.R.'s genre RANDB
Harshness SEVERITY
Heads of France TETES
Helped through hard times, with "over" TIDED
Holds back DETAINS
How to get in on a deal? ANTE
Hula Hoop maker WHAMO
India Gate city DELHI
Insider parlance ARGOT
Israeli airline ELAL
Jamaican genre REGGAE
Kerfuffles ADOS
King or queen BED
King or queen DYNAST
Less sizable PUNIER
Lobster dinner accoutrements BIBS
Long skirt MAXI
Clues Answers
Longings YENS
Many a first-time voter TEENAGER
Many a Petrarch poem SONNET
Margaret of "Drop Dead Diva" CHO
Mathematician Lovelace ADA
Michelangelo masterpiece PIETA
Middle sch. math class ALG
MLB team playing in Sacramento ahead of their move to Las Vegas ATHLETICS
Musician and peace activist Yoko ONO
Natural balm ALOE
New version of an existing song REMIX
Night, in the Eternal City NOTTE
Not moving INERT
Not quite (there) PARTWAY
Not remote ONSITE
Ointments SALVES
Once __ while INA
One thing alone or two people together ITEM
Over-the-top EXTRA
Perceived SEEN
Poet's "at no time" NEER
Precursor to overtime TIE
Predicaments PLIGHTS
Prefix with -pathic IDIO
Prefix with -polis ACRO
Principles VALUES
Puck's flagship restaurant SPAGO
Put in stitches KNIT
Que. neighbor ONT
Racer's final chance to win LASTLAP
Radio receiver ANTENNA
Rebellious mermaid ARIEL
Rolls-__ ROYCE
Roman garb TOGA
Sauce made with basil and pine nuts PESTO
Savor RELISH
Set crew's responsibility SCENERY
Shade-loving perennial HOSTA
Silica gel packet target MOISTURE
Silly INANE
Sleepy housemate HAPPY
Slight advantage EDGE
Small but loud songbirds WRENS
Some Belgian blondes ALES
Some military figs SGTS
Spotless CHASTE
Stressful position HOTSEAT
Support for a work in progress EASEL
Surrendered CEDED
Surrounded by AMID
Take shape GEL
Tantalizing SEXY
Tear RIP
Temporary repair material TAPE
Tennis icon Arthur ASHE
Terra firma LAND
Tolkien's Shepherds of the Trees ENTS
Toon devil TAZ
Trail PATH
Troubled HASSLED
Undershirt, briefly CAMI
Upper limb ARM
Wally's sitcom bro BEAV
White Rabbit follower ALICE
Whopper LIE
Wiser companion? OLDER
Work unit ERG
World Cup "Score!," maybe OLE
World Cup score, maybe NIL
Wound remnant SCAR
__ acid AMINO
__ cube ICE