L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2025

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Clues Answers
"Beat Bobby Flay" contestant CHEF
"Click here" text LINK
"Encore!" MORE
"Everybody will tell you the same!" ASKANYONE
"Kidding!" NOT
"You guessed it!" YES
"__ Chameleon": Culture Club hit KARMA
"__ Diary ... " DEAR
"__ du lieber!" ACH
*Advocate from a social agency CASEWORKER
*Metaphorical container similar to Pandora's box CANOFWORMS
*Pilot's aerobatic maneuver BARRELROLL
*Result of serious core training SIXPACKABS
20 Mule Team laundry product BORAX
Acknowledgment of a screwup IGOOFED
Activision rival ATARI
Actress Mila KUNIS
Basketball Hall of Famer Steve NASH
Book before Amos JOEL
Capture digitally SCAN
Crumbly Mexican cheese COTIJA
Derek whose No. 2 was retired by the Yankees JETER
Done in, as a dragon SLAIN
Early invader of Britain SAXON
Eat as a treat SNACKON
Enterprise captain Jean-__ Picard LUC
Enthusiastic about INTO
Face With Steam From Nose, for one EMOJI
French money EURO
Frito pie ingredient CHILI
Grand Lodge group ELKS
Having the resources ABLE
Hooded serpent COBRA
Hooting hunter OWL
Human rights org ACLU
Humped oasis visitor CAMEL
In the slightest ATALL
Invent lines ADLIB
Looks closely (at) PEERS
Clues Answers
Lovers' god EROS
Lucy of "Elementary" LIU
Lymph __: immune system part NODE
Mex. neighbor USA
Mined resource ORE
Modest skirt MAXI
Muppet with a sister named Daisy ELMO
Museo del Prado display ARTE
Neutralize CANCELOUT
Nimble-fingered DEFT
One-__ pushup ARM
Perfectly clear LUCID
Plug-and-play port USB
Prevarication LIE
Reach ATTAIN
Requires NEEDS
Retired record holders? IPODS
Saddle attachment STIRRUP
Schindler of "Schindler's List" OSKAR
Screwup ERROR
Sporty trucks, briefly UTES
Spot for bulbs BED
Sprinter's asset SPEED
Stay hidden HOLEUP
Stops on the road INNS
Tall monument that comes to a point OBELISK
Taproom pour ALE
Tedious talker BORE
Trace of smoke WISP
Trio on a triceratops HORNS
Trip to buy brewskis, or a sequence found in the starts of the answers to the starred clues BEERRUN
Trippy drug LSD
Uber driver's invitation HOPIN
Unoriginal reply ECHO
Unpleasantly bitter ACRID
Vein counterpart ARTERY
Website with a Collectibles category EBAY
__ note: dictionary explanation USAGE
__-pitch softball SLO