L.A. Times Daily - Jan 2 2026

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Clues Answers
"Cut that out!," or an apt title for this puzzle KNOCKITOFF
"Don't go!" STAY
"Or so" ISH
"Rugrats" dad STU
(If) necessary NEEDBE
2024 NBA All-Star Game MVP "__ Time" Lillard DAME
Admission of guilt ICONFESS
Agree ASSENT
Aorta, for one ARTERY
Audible sighs AHS
Batter beater WHISK
Beauty school treatment? LEARNERSPERM
Broad strip SWATH
Charges BILLS
Comment from someone listening to elevator music, perhaps IMONHOLD
Cry of dismay OHNO
Crystal ball consulted atop Mount Everest? HIGHEARTHORB
Dread FEAR
During AMID
Features of orchestras and rhinos HORNS
Four-time French Open winner Swiatek IGA
Freezing temps TEENS
Groom feathers PREEN
Gymnast's gripping aid ROSIN
Hawaiian for "white" KEA
HHS agency FDA
Highest seed ONE
House shower? CSPAN
ID with two hyphens SSN
In the loop AWARE
Key ISLET
Kraken's realm, briefly NHL
Land south of Eur AFR
Large number SLEW
Leaves for dinner SALAD
Like déjà vu EERIE
Like many fiddle-leaf figs POTTED
Long. crosser LAT
Magazine income source ADPAGE
Manatee, e.g SEACOW
Many a mockumentary SATIRE
Clues Answers
Marble __ RYE
MMA stat KOS
Monster with regenerative heads HYDRA
More slick ICIER
Mother with a Nobel Peace Prize TERESA
Not gross NET
Not right? LEFT
Novelist Meg CABOT
Opposite of oui NON
Org. for orthodontists ADA
Paramount+ partner, briefly SHO
Picnic spoiler RAIN
Play guitar STRUM
Pseudonym preceder AKA
Pt. of HDTV DEF
Push beyond acceptable limits GOTOOFAR
Recycling container BIN
Regret RUE
Release LETOUT
Sew loosely BASTE
Singer Carly __ Jepsen RAE
Soccer star Sergio who scored more than 100 goals for Real Madrid RAMOS
Sold-out letters SRO
Some Duracells AAS
Spiritual glow AURA
Susceptible (to) PRONE
Swampy habitat MARSH
Tacos al __ PASTOR
Taxing trip TREK
Texter's qualifier IMO
The discovery of the Lucy fossils, for one? SIGNIFICANTDIG
Tiebreaker periods, for short OTS
Totally wrong ALLWET
Up and about ASTIR
Upright ERECT
Warning on a note passed in a seminar? NOTFORPROF
Well-read individuals LITERATI
Window shades TINTS
Zaps NUKES
[Giggle] HEEHEE