L.A. Times Daily - Dec 18 2025

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Clues Answers
"Alas and __!" ALACK
"All over that" ONIT
"First Lady of Song" Fitzgerald ELLA
"Good 4 U" singer Olivia RODRIGO
"In conclusion ... " ANDSO
"In the headlights" animal DEER
"Oh sure, take their __!" SIDE
"Raging Bull" Oscar nominee PESCI
"Srsly!?" OMG
"The Entertainer" genre RAGTIME
Absurd DAFT
Bearing MIEN
Blathers on YAPS
Brand of 5-Across IZOD
Breakfast bowl berry ACAI
Butter Restaurant chef/owner Guarnaschelli ALEX
Called TERMED
Chess greats, for short GMS
Chewy brand ALPO
Comedy scene SKETCH
Con SCAM
Contest that starts with a center-ice faceoff NHLGAME
Coup d'__ ETAT
Device on a snowboarder's helmet, maybe GOPRO
Diane of "Law & Order: SVU" NEAL
Director Lee ANG
Driver of "Ferrari" ADAM
Escapade LARK
Excavated DUGUP
Foul call, maybe PRANK
Founded, as a co ESTD
Fruit also known as guanabana SOURSOP
Fun function BASH
Fury RAGE
Golf tops POLOS
Halloween mo OCT
Herbal refreshment TEA
HS diploma equivalent GED
Clues Answers
Ibis kin EGRET
Indigenous Canadians CREE
List of pub grub BARMENU
Many an American employee FLIGHTATTENDANT
March follower APRIL
Miso soup mushroom ENOKI
Muscle worked in dumbbell rows LAT
Olive family shrub LILAC
Part of an inheritance GENE
Pigs SWINE
Pops DADA
Price for hand delivery? ANTE
Qatari commander EMIR
Quick __ wink ASA
Red Bull slogan, and what can also be said of 17-, 25-, 28-, and 42-Across GIVESYOUWIIINGS
Residential upgrades HOMEIMPROVEMENT
Rio greeting OLA
Roe, e.g OVA
Scratched (out) EKED
Shoe bottoms SOLES
Simchat bat, for one RITE
Skin soother ALOE
Skyline obscurer HAZE
Some Sharon Olds poems ODES
Soul, in Spanish ALMA
Sound check? EAREXAM
Source of financial aid PATRON
Stumble or fumble ERR
Sushi seaweed NORI
Vanity pieces SINKS
Varieties ILKS
Vegan brand owned by Estée Lauder AVEDA
Wall flowers, perhaps MURAL
Wander ROAM
Wanders (about) GADS
Water boy? MARINER
Wellness space SPA
__ sauce TARTAR