L.A. Times Daily - Dec 14 2025

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Clues Answers
"Bathers by a River" painter Matisse HENRI
"Don't be afraid to embrace fan fiction!"? KICKTHECANON
"For You" singer Rita ORA
"Let me give you some advice ... " HERESATIP
"Look, I'm on TV!" THATSME
"Rome wasn't built in a day," e.g ADAGE
"They beat me" ILOST
"Uh-huh" YEP
"We made the right choice" ITSBEST
13-Down purchase, perhaps PINT
Abe, for one PREZ
Actor Idris ELBA
Agile LITHE
Alabama St., e.g HBCU
Allergy season needs TISSUES
Aphrodite's son EROS
Appended, or an alternate title for this puzzle ADDEDON
Arequipa auntie TIA
At all EVER
Authorize ENABLE
Berated RAILEDAT
Bio, for one SCI
Biotech giant AMGEN
Bird in much Australian art EMU
Body art TATTOO
Booker T.'s band MGS
Boxing judge locale RINGSIDE
Brooklyn NBA team NETS
Bud PAL
Cardi B songs RAPS
Chicken piece THIGH
Clickable link URL
Cloverleaf component EXIT
Consumption INTAKE
Container weight allowances TARES
Critter with webbed feet FROG
Date SEE
Deli device SCALE
Discomfort UNEASE
Eager AVID
Easy gait LOPE
Egyptian symbol also called the "key of life" ANKH
Email status SENT
Encouraging message to a sad nobleman? CHINUPBARON
Event after spring cleaning, maybe TAGSALE
Extravagant LUXE
Falafel holders PITAS
Father SIRE
Fawn's mom DOE
Feature of a "Twilight" relay race? VAMPIREBATON
Female hedgehog SOW
Filtration organ KIDNEY
Flower ring LEI
Foe ENEMY
Folklore beasts OGRES
Footwear with Jibbitz charms CROC
For fear that LEST
Fortune rival INC
Furious MAD
Game square with bars JAIL
Game that involves old-fashioned wine vessels? CAPTURETHEFLAGON
Garment that's entirely unsuitable for cooking? ZEROPERCENTAPRON
Gave birth to HAD
Give a name to DUB
Gives the nod OKS
Goddess whose tears flood the Nile ISIS
Greenhorn NAIF
Half of a candy duo IKE
Hawk's home NEST
Holiday that begins with the first sighting of the crescent moon EID
How checks are written INPEN
Clues Answers
Hub served by BART SFO
Inconsequential moment BLIP
Input again RETYPE
Interstate feature RESTAREA
Island east of Java BALI
Kagan of the Supreme Court ELENA
Kathmandu citizen NEPALI
Kathy of "Matlock" BATES
Kin of -ule ETTE
Laundry brand TIDE
Laundry brand GAIN
Leave out OMIT
Like five bones in the hand METACARPAL
Lip balm container TUBE
Lump in one's throat? ADAMSAPPLE
Made a scene? ACTED
Malicious EVIL
More reserved SHYER
Move fast, as clouds SCUD
Newman of kid-lit LESLEA
Not 'neath OER
Offering from an African republic? GIFTOFGABON
Oktoberfest structure BEERTENT
Olympic gymnast Lee SUNI
On a streak? NUDE
On the briny ASEA
Part of a swing set? DANCESTEP
Peculiar habits TICS
Pont Neuf river SEINE
Promising spot? ALTAR
Quad- kin TETRA
Rainforest vine LIANA
Rec room amenity WETBAR
Resistance unit OHM
Romeo's final words IDIE
Sassy PERT
Seal hunter ORCA
Sean of "Stranger Things" ASTIN
Skewed views BIASES
Sleeveless garment VEST
Snacking syllable NOM
Some BrickLink.com buys LEGOSETS
Some cards checked by the TSA STATEIDS
Some classic PCs IBMS
Some FD members EMTS
Substance in an Erlenmeyer flask, maybe CHEMICAL
Superlative acronym GOAT
Takes advantage of USES
Tart citrus drink LIMEADE
Tear up CRY
Title for Elroy during his boot camp days? PRIVATEJETSON
Title of respect SRI
Transitional state, in Buddhism BARDO
Trig ratio SINE
Tropical sorbet flavor GUAVA
Uncommon blood type, for short BNEG
Unrefined rock ORE
Unsure parent's response ASKMOM
Venues such as Shakespeare's Globe THEATRES
Volcano featured in the second season of "The White Lotus" ETNA
Waffle House rival IHOP
Was, in Spanish ERA
Waterfall spray MIST
Western New York city OLEAN
Wind indicator VANE
Withstand ENDURE
Word with chance or dance LAST
__ apparent HEIR
__ mail SNAIL
__ smasher ATOM
__ voce SOTTO