L.A. Times Daily - Dec 27 2025

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Clues Answers
"All My Children" actress Kathleen NOONE
"And??" CARETOELABORATE
"Easy-peasy!" SOSIMPLE
"Failing that ... " IFNOT
"Hadestown" Tony nominee Noblezada EVA
"Kapow!" WHAM
"The best in pests" company ORKIN
"Très __!" BIEN
"Who Shot Mr. Burns?," for one TWOPARTEPISODE
"Why do you __?" ASK
Array at a hotel breakfast bar WAFFLEIRONS
Attracted to more than one gender, informally MSPEC
Banchero who was the 2023 NBA Rookie of the Year PAOLO
Barely usable pencils NUBS
Bench clamp VISE
Big name in chips INTEL
Close call SCARE
Code breakers KEYS
Compass pt SSE
Confession confession SIN
Crime stories? ALIBIS
Declare AVOW
Duo PAIR
Exec who might oversee R&D CTO
Forced a comb through, say DETANGLED
Forms of rapid transit TELEPORTERS
Gives a role CASTS
Glom __ ONTO
Good listeners? EARS
Guests' guesses ETAS
Hesitant sounds ERS
Hot bodies? LAVALAKES
Intricate trap WEB
Kylie's daughter STORMI
Clues Answers
Like cut lumber SAWN
Like some waiters EARLY
Lizard with defensive spines HORNYTOAD
Mallow family plants with edible seed pods OKRAS
Manipulator of one of the four elements, in a classic animated series AIRBENDER
Mikey Day's show, for short SNL
Miss living in Mexico, say SENORITA
More than some MOST
Must HASTO
Natural styles AFROS
Not just some EVERY
One just starting to shine PROTOSTAR
Peak reward VISTA
Peignoir trim LACE
Safari snap SCREENCAP
Snaps TAKESAPIC
Some boxing losses SPLITDECISIONS
Some humanities degs MAS
Squirrel away STASH
Squirrel away STOW
Stay at a 57-Across, perhaps GLAMP
Superfood whose "special power is tasting bad," per Jim Gaffigan KALE
Sustainable place to unwind ECORESORT
Tea type PEKOE
Tech startup? NANO
Tennis great Monica SELES
Top knot, e.g UPDO
Up the __ ANTE
Waititi of "Our Flag Means Death" TAIKA
Worshipper of the goddess Pachamama INCA
Writer Shelley MARY
__ gobi ALOO
__ punk: "Tragic Kingdom" genre SKA
__-eyed DEWY